"Steve Wonder's music works really well for jazz band," said Jackson, the Jazz Ensemble's director. "If you go back to his recordings, you realize there's a lot of jazz elements in there. ... I think anyone who gets a chance to listen will be a little bit blown away by how varied the styles are that can actually fit into the category of jazz band performance."

Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing" will feature Furness on vocals. The talented musician also plays several instruments in the group, including guitar, vibraphone and auxiliary percussion.

Furness will also provide vocals on George and Ira Gershwin's "The Man I Love," and vocals will take center stage in the middle of the concert, when the Highland Harmonizers, a 14-member student group, presents a pair of selections, "Time" and "Happy Together."

If that already wasn't something for everyone, Jackson said his tenor saxophone player, Talon Hunter '25 of Abingdon, Illinois, referred him to a pair of Pokemon songs that will be featured in the concert, including "Route 228," which Jackson called "a funk shuffle that features the sousaphone," which will be played by Lorenzo Ramirez '26 of Waukegan, Illinois.

"It works really well. It's a great sound," said Jackson, who will also play some lead guitar during the concert.

Furness is one of four seniors performing in their final Jazz Ensemble concert as students. The others are Eli Kelly of Aledo, Zach Lundquist of Aurora, Illinois, and Otto, who is from Havana, Illinois.