Patrick Bartley With Texins Jazz Band at Eisemann Center

The Texins Jazz Band has a 40-year history of producing concerts featuring great guest artists. The band is presenting two guest concerts in the spring of 2026. The first will be Grammy-nominated saxophonist Patrick Bartley. He is a GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader known for his boundless versatility, virtuosic technique, and expressive and beautiful tone. Patrick is a musician with experience in a wide range of situations, from appearing on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to being featured in the Emmy-nominated HBO special Wynton Marsalis: A YoungArts Masterclass, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Although a South Florida native, Patrick is a has spent the majority of his professional music career in NYC prior to graduating from the Manhattan School of Music. As an on-demand sideman, he has performed and recorded with musicians such as Louis Hayes, Jonathan Batiste, Mulgrew Miller, Jeff Coffin, and Wynton Marsalis, and has performed at world-renowned venues such as The STAPLES Center, Madison Square Garden, and the Black Sea Jazz Festival....

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The Texins Jazz Band has a 40-year history of producing concerts featuring great guest artists. The band is presenting two guest concerts in the spring of 2026. The first will be Grammy-nominated saxophonist Patrick Bartley. He is a GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader known for his boundless versatility, virtuosic technique, and expressive and beautiful tone. Patrick is a musician with experience in a wide range of situations, from appearing on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to being featured in the Emmy-nominated HBO special Wynton Marsalis: A YoungArts Masterclass, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Although a South Florida native, Patrick is a has spent the majority of his professional music career in NYC prior to graduating from the Manhattan School of Music. As an on-demand sideman, he has performed and recorded with musicians such as Louis Hayes, Jonathan Batiste, Mulgrew Miller, Jeff Coffin, and Wynton Marsalis, and has performed at world-renowned venues such as The STAPLES Center, Madison Square Garden, and the Black Sea Jazz Festival.

Texins Jazz Band is a full 18-piece community big band based in Dallas, TX. The band is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1986 at Texas Instruments in Dallas. The majority of band members have STEM-based degrees and careers (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math). The band is under the musical direction of Bill Centera. Texins Jazz Band is funded in part by the City of Richardson through the City of Richardson Cultural Arts Commission.

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