PORT ANGELES — Lovers of jazz — and those who are curious about it — are in for a rare opportunity as celebrated American fluegelhornist Dmitri Matheny comes to Peninsula College’s Maier Hall for a concert Saturday afternoon.
Matheny, a longtime resident of San Francisco, will join the David P. Jones Quartet, the ensemble made up of local jazz luminaries: Jones on piano, Ted Enderle on upright bass, Terry Smith on drums and Kevin MacCartney on tenor saxophone and flute.
Show time is 2 p.m. in Maier Hall, on the southeastern side of Peninsula College at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., where tickets will be sold at the door only.
Seats are $12 for general admission and $5 for students with public school or college identification.
This concert will feature new compositions from both Matheny and Jones, plus lots of standards and modern jazz classics from the likes of Duke Ellington, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Van Heusen, Chuck Mangione, Nat Adderley, Harold Arlen and others.
A protege of the late Art Farmer, Matheny has brought his music to 19 countries, performing with popular acts including the Temptations, Martha Reeves, the Four Tops and the O’Jays, and with jazz artists from Larry Coryell to Max Roach and Billy Taylor.
Matheny’s discography lists more than 120 compact discs on which he appears as a composer, arranger, producer, annotator or flugelhorn soloist. He also has released 10 albums as a leader, including the latest, 2014’s “Sagebrush Rebellion.”
This flugelhorn player is “one of the most emotionally expressive improvisers of his generation,” one critic wrote in the International Review of Music, while a San Francisco Chronicle journalist hails him as “one of the jazz world’s most talented horn players.”
For more information about Saturday’s matinee concert, contact Jones at djones@pencol.edu or 360-417-6405.