PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble will present its free Spring Quarter Concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The concert — which features performers from Port Angeles, Sequim, Joyce, Quilcene and Port Townsend — will be in Maier Performance Hall on the Peninsula College campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Robbin Eaves of Joyce will sing, backed by a 16-piece jazz big band.
Along with the usual complement of saxophones, brass and rhythm, the band will be joined by Kate Powers of Port Angeles on electric violin.
Hannah Howell will be a special guest trombonist. She is returning from Central Washington University.
The ensemble is directed by David P. Jones, head of the music program at the college.
Variety of music
Classic standards from the pens of Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck will be heard along with tunes by Gerry Mulligan, Chick Corea, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Watson, Joe LaBarbera and Jones.
Historical highlights include the original arrangement (with violin solo) of The Duke’s “C Jam Blues” featuring several soloists and Mulligan’s own arrangement of “Rocker” made for Charlie Parker, his rhythm section and a chamber orchestra of oboe and strings that was premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1950.
Robbin’s vocal selections, spanning the 1940s, ’50s and ’70s, include “Skylark,” “I Remember You,” “In Your Own Sweet Way” and Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in Need of Love Today.”
More modern repertoire includes Corea’s “Armando’s Rhumba” from his “My Spanish Heart” album, which will feature Powers, as well as Wonder’s “Sir Duke,” Watson’s “Beatitudes,” a revival of Jones’ 2009 composition “North Sea Interlude” and many other varied selections from the 1990s.
Other performers include Lorenzo Jones and Bob Hagan of Sequim; Bob Bailey, Kevin MacCartney, Richard “Doc” Thorson, Ed Donohue, Jordan Nicolas, Tyler Benedict, Cole Gibson, Tor Brandes and Nicia Pfeffer of Port Angeles; John Adams and Ron Daylo of Port Townsend; and John Sanders of Quilcene.
For more information, contact Jones at 360-417-6405 or djones@pencol.edu.
