PORT ANGELES — Jazz at the PUB will offer a midday break from routine Tuesday.
The Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble will perform from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Pirate Union Building, known as the PUB, at the campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Attendees are invited to bring their own lunch, buy lunch at the Pirate Cove on campus, bring books to study or just listen. Admission is free.
The ensemble features Robbin Eaves on vocals with a large band consisting of 12 horns and five rhythm instruments.
Eaves will sing two classic standards: Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields’ “Don’t Blame Me” and A.C. Jobim’s “One Note Samba.”
She also will perform an updated arrangement of Mercer and Van Heusen’s “I Thought About You,” accompanied by the rhythm section and the support of Craig Buhler on alto sax.
The band will perform music by Thad Jones, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Marty Paich and Greg Adams of “Tower of Power” fame.
Two new works by David Jones, director of the PC Jazz Ensemble and head of the music program at the college, will be performed for the first time.
The performers in the band come from Port Angeles, Sequim, Joyce, Quilcene and Port Townsend.
They include Buhler, Lorenzo Jones, Bob Hagen and Dave Hinton, all of Sequim; Kevin MacCartney, Andy Geiger, Richard “Doc” Thorson, Supacha “Ashley” Denprasertsuk, Mike Ehr, Jordan Nicolas, Cole Gibson, Tor Brandes and Nicia Pfeffer, all of Port Angeles; John Adams and Ron Daylo, both of Port Townsend; John Sanders of Quilcene; and Eaves of Joyce.
For more information, contact Jones at 360-417-6405 or djones@pencol.edu.
