PORT ANGELES — Jazz musician Ed Donohue will perform with the David Jones Trio at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The concert will be at the Maier Concert Hall in Building E on the Peninsula College campus at 1502 E. Lauridesen Blvd., in Port Angeles.
Tickets will be available at the door only. They are $12 for general admission and $5 for students with public school or college ID.
Donohue — who teaches beginning band, concert band, advanced band, and jazz band at Stevens Middle School in Port Angeles — will perform on trumpet and flugelhorn.
Backing him will be the trio led by Jones, who is the head of the music program at Peninsula College, performing on piano and keyboard. Ted Enderle will play the bass and Tom Svornich the drums.
Donohue has toured with the jazz group “Abraxis” and has also performed with Clark Terry, Ethel Ennis, Mark Murphy, Phil Woods, Joe Williams, Bobby McFerrin, Bobby Shew and Shelly Manne.
Since receiving a master’s degree in music education and trumpet performance from Central Washington University, Donohue has taught music in the public schools of Washington state for 38 years as well as teaching jazz studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp and the Blaine Jazz Festival.
Donohue also has an extensive teaching studio and performs with the Latin group Manteca and the Mike Klinger B3 Quartet.
Jones also has served as director of Peninsula College’s Jazz Ensemble since 2008.
He has performed with Bob Curnow, Mike Bisio, Brad Sheppik, Jazz Police, Craig Buhler and other local jazz musicians. His trio with Enderle and Terry Smith has backed Dmitri Matheny, Mark Lewis, and John Stowell as well as performing several times in the Port Angeles area over the last few years. Saturday’s concert will feature Svornich in place of Smith on the drums.
Jones is also a jazz composer/arranger whose works have been performed by the Bob Curnow Big Band, Jazz Police, Jim Cutler Big Band, Straight No Chaser Big Band (UK), and many college jazz ensemble including those from Indiana University (conducted by David Baker), University of Missouri-Kansas (Bobby Watson), University of Iowa (John Rapson), Rutgers University, University of Washington and Peninsula College.
His jazz ensemble compositions have been heard at jazz festivals at Reno, Lionel Hampton, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Eau Claire, Wisc., and Tacoma.
