'A Rambling Stretch' performs Wednesday

“A Rambling Stretch,” a concert of contemporary jazz music inspired by the beauty of the Cowboy State and its landscape by composer and Wyoming native Tyler Gilmore, will visit Thermopolis Wednesday, Sept. 23.

The performance will be at the Hot Springs County School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and students are free.

In the performances, Gilmore explores Wyoming’s landscapes and people with the accompaniment of a 12-piece jazz chamber ensemble. 

The origins of Gilmore’s music composition can be traced back to a 2013 trip to Wyoming. Gilmore, a 2000 graduate of Riverton High School, returned to his home town along with renowned photographer Gary Isaacs to film, photograph, and sound record the area. 

He then composed music inspired by the imagery. The resulting work weaves together the photos, sound and video, with all original music for a 12-piece chamber jazz ensemble comprised of the top jazz musicians from the western United States.

Gilmore won the 2009 ASCAP/Columbia College Commission in Honor of Hank Jones and won the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award for three consecutive years -- 2008, 2009, and 2010.

His music has been reviewed in “DownBeat” and performed by Jon Faddis’s Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Bobby Watson and The UMKC Concert Jazz Ensemble, The University of Northern Colorado Jazz Band I, The Playground Ensemble, and The Henry Mancini Institute Overture Orchestra, among others. His work is published by UNC Jazz Press and Minor Ninth Music.

The tour is co-sponsored by Central Wyoming College, UW Fine Arts Outreach and the Wyoming Arts Council. Partial funding of the tour is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund.

For more information, contact Danee Hunzie of the Wyoming Arts Council at 307-777-7473 or by email at danee.hunzie@wyo.gov.