Vega in Vermont

	Renowned jazz and Latin jazz trumpeter Ray Vega rehearses the UVM Post Bop Ensemble. See Vega — the newest faculty member of Jazz Studies — perform with the UVM Jazz Ensemble, Thursday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall. (Photo: Sally McCay)

It seems somehow unlikely that trumpet virtuoso and lifelong New Yorker Ray Vega, one of world’s great jazz and Latin jazz artists, would trade 47 years at the center of the jazz universe for a new start in the slightly smaller world of Burlington, Vt. But the newest member of UVM’s Jazz Studies Program, who began teaching at the university in September, has his reasons.

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