All This Jazz-ONLINE

Love Jazz? Think you might but want to find out? Join us as we fly through the early history of Jazz - its beginnings in New Orleans and its spread up the rivers and railroads to Chicago and Kansas City, Philly and New York. By focusing on the Players (& Singers); Louis Armstrong inventing modern trumpet playing, AND modern singing. Covering the genres of Swing, Be Bop, Hard Bop, Straight Ahead…Drummers like Krupa, Roach, Rich, Haynes, Puente, “Rolling Thunder” Elvin Jones…On Saxophone: Charlie “Bird” Parker, John Coltrane, “Prez”; Lester Young, Sonny Rollins…Trumpeteers: Armstrong, “Dizzy” Gillespie, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan…OF COURSE Mr. Ellington….Clarinets from Bechet to Goodman, Klezmer to Latin, Sweet to Hot, to Jungle to Fusion: Come on down, it’ll be a blast!