Published 7:00 am Friday, August 21, 2026 illedgeville Allied Arts and the Georgia College Music Department have teamed up to bring the community Jazz at the Magnolia. The event, slated this year on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom, was initially conceived as an opportunity to feature regional jazz artists alongside our local talent, GCSU faculty and students in concert. Experience an unforgettable evening of world-class jazz as acclaimed trumpeter Pharez Whitted joins the GDC Trio for Jazz at the Magnolia. Known for his expressive playing, inventive improvisation, and decades of performance experience, Whitted brings a captivating blend of classic and contemporary jazz to the stage. Born in Indianapolis in 1960, Whitted grew up in a family of renowned jazz musicians that included his mother, Virtue Hampton Whitted, his aunt Dawn Hampton, and his uncle, the legendary Slide Hampton. His father, Thomas, played drums with Freddie Hubbard and Wes Montgomery, both natives of Indianapolis. Whitted played football and studied music at DePauw University and earned a master’s degree from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has worked with George Duke, Slide Hampton, Elvin Jones, Ramsey Lewis, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Meriwether, The O’Jays, Lou Rawls, The Temptations, Kirk Whalum, John Mellencamp, and Indiana University classmate and The Tonight Show bassist Bob Hurst. Whitted wrote, produced, and arranged his…
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