The Jazz Kings lean decidedly standards-based, each year we do offer an evening of big band Swing replete with a mix of original big band instrumentals and a choice selection of the Songbook classics which were de rigueur for all the bands during the Swing Era. Glenn Griffith takes a different turn this year with a Jazz Kings big band program that is completely filled with gems from the Classic Songbook by the likes of Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser, Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, Jimmy Van Heusen, Victor Young, and many others. Look for classics like “Why Don’t You Do Right”, “It Never Entered My Mind”, “Satin Doll”, “The Man I Love”, and more.
This season, The Jazz Kings move to a Friday evening/Sunday matinee performance schedule, with a performance in Corvallis LaSells Stewart Ctr at OSU, this October at 7:30 (the rest of the year, the Corvallis performance will be at 3 pm).
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Vicki Brabham, pianoJoe Kelner, drumsNiels Miller, bassSteve Owen, reedsDevin Wright, reedsMatthew Taylor, reedsJonathan Corona, reedsMiles Griffith, reedsGlenn Griffith, tromboneRichard Lewis, tromboneErik Dabel, tromboneMatthew Ingman, tromboneAlex Shuffield, trumpetDoug Doerfert, trumpetCody Simmons, trumpetKen Johnson, trumpet |