PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble will present a free Winter Quarter Concert on Tuesday.
The performance will be at 7 p.m. at Maier Hall at the Port Angeles Peninsula College campus, 502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The band features Robbin Eaves on vocals backed by 14 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.”
Eaves also will perform an updated, funk-oriented arrangement of Mercer and Van Heusen’s, “I Thought About You” accompanied by the rhythm section and Craig Buhler on alto sax.
The band also will perform music by Thad Jones, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Marty Paich and Greg Adams.
Two new works by David P. Jones, director of the PC Jazz Ensemble, also will be performed.
Performers are 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 at djones@pencol.edu.
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Reporter Chris McDaniel can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 56650, or cmcdaniel@peninsuladailynews.com.
