PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble will perform two free concerts next week.
The ensemble will present Jazz in the PUB at noon Tuesday in the Pirate Union Building on the college’s Port Angeles campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch or purchase a meal from the Market and Deli while enjoying the performance.
The ensemble will present its Fall Jazz Concert at 7 p.m. Thursday in Maier Performance Hall, also on the Port Angeles campus. The concert will showcase musicians from across the Peninsula performing a variety of jazz classics.
Highlights of the performances include:
Alejandro “AJ” Martinez, a freshman from Port Angeles, playing trombone on Henry Mancini’s “Charade.”
Robbin Eaves, a vocalist from Joyce, singing “A Child Is Born” as well as selections from the Great American Songbook.
James Morley will sing the original Nelson Riddle arrangement of Frank Sinatra’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.”
Marge Rosen, the ensemble’s conductor, will play drums.
Other performers include trumpeters Dan James, Jim Bradbury and Larry Madsen; pianist John Wetherill; bassist Jai Porter; trombonists Dan Powell, Nancy McPerson, Jeff Dingle and Tom Hartig; and the wind section featuring Jayne Morrison on alto sax, Keith Boll and Kevin MacCartney on tenor sax, Jeff Fox on baritone sax and John Adams on alto sax and bass clarinet.
For more information, email Rosen at mrosen@pencol.edu or visit www.pencol.edu/events.
