Peninsula College will host the PC Jazz Ensemble Spring Quarter Concert on Tuesday, June 6 at 7:00 pm in Maier Performance Hall on the Port Angeles campus.
The concert features Robbin Eaves on vocals and a 14-piece jazz band featuring five woodwinds, six brass, and a full rhythm section featuring the phenomenal drumming of Terry Smith.
The band will perform music from the repertoire Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Joe Zawinul, Eddie Harris, Weather Report, Giacomo Rossini, and three world premieres by Dr. David P. Jones.
Eaves, accompanied by a smaller version of the band, will sing Joe Zawinul’s classic, “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” as well as tunes by Rodgers & Hart and Van Heusen & Burke.
The performers in this band represent some of the very best jazz that the North Olympic Peninsula has to offer. From Port Angeles are Kevin MacCartney (tenor sax), Jim Bradbury (trumpet), Joel Ricci (trumpet), Ken Young (trombone) and David Jones (keyboards/director). Sequim provides Jayne Morrison (alto/soprano sax), Anton Hilmisson (alto/baritone sax), Jeff Fox (tenor sax), Dan James (trumpet), Tom Hartig (trombone),Terry Smith (drums) and Kendall Melton (bass) while John Adams (alto sax + clarinet + bass clarinet) hails from Port Townsend and Dan Powell (trombone) makes the twice weekly trek from Marrowstone Island.
For more information, contact Dr. Jones at (360) 417-6405 or at djones@pencol.edu