Free jazz performance at Peninsula College set for 7 p.m. tonight
Published 12:01 am Tuesday, June 9, 2015
PORT ANGELES — The music of Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk and George and Ira Gershwin will fill Maier Hall, and it won’t cost a penny to get in and listen.
The Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble, a 20-piece outfit featuring players from across the North Olympic Peninsula, will give a free concert at Maier Hall on the southeastern side of the college’s main campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., at 7 p.m. tonight (Tuesday night).
Singer Robbin Eaves will offer the Gershwins’ “(Our) Love is Here to Stay” with a trumpet-saxophone-rhythm combo, and the full band will perform “Embraceable You,” as well as Jerome Kern’s “ Yesterdays.”
The concert also promises a medley inspired by Artie Shaw: Porter’s “What Is This Thing Called Love” and “Begin the Beguine” and Romberg and Hammerstein’s “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise.”
“We will do Jimmy Van Heusen’s ‘Here’s That Rainy Day,’ which features Steve Swanson — regular trumpeter with our band now, formerly of the Buddy Rich Big Band and Lionel Hampton Band — and Freddie Hubbard’s ‘Povo,’ a jazz-rock classic from 1970,” added David P. Jones, leader of the jazz ensemble.
For more information about tonight’s performance and other musical events at Peninsula College, visit www.pencol.edu or phone Jones at 360-417-6405.
