In this thrilling, one-night-only performance, the legendary Count Basie Orchestra™ (directed by Scotty Barnhart) takes the stage at the Power Center with the University of Michigan’s Jazz Ensemble, the Michigan Youth Jazz Orchestra, members of the University Symphony Orchestra, select U-M jazz faculty, and special guests Carla Cook and U-M graduate and former Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer.

The Inkubator is Literary Cleveland’s free annual festival for writers and readers. Generate new writing, improve your craft, and advance your career. Nandi Comer will lead a writing workshop, “Between Form, Resistance, and Joy,” and be featured in the Afterparty Reading.