PORT ANGELES — The 17-piece Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble — with singer Robbin Eaves up front — will fill Maier Performance Hall with crystalline rhythms this Tuesday night — for a reasonable price.
Admission will be free to the 7 p.m. concert at Maier, which is on the Peninsula College campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Music lovers will be treated to an evening that covers eight decades of jazz and popular music, director David P. Jones said. Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, John Lewis, Rodgers & Hart, Nat Adderley and Benny Goodman are on the agenda, alongside fresh jazz arrangements of Soundgarden, Pat Metheny and Bob Curnow’s music.
For this winter quarter concert, the ensemble lineup includes performers from around the North Olympic Peninsula and across the age spectrum. Saxophonists are Bob Bailey, Kevin MacCartney, Andy Geiger, Richard “Doc” Thorson and Steve Lingle of Port Angeles and John Adams of Port Townsend, while the trumpet section has three from Sequim: George Lindamood, Bob Hagan and Dave Hinton. The trombones are handled by Hannah Howell and Tyler Benedict of Port Angeles and Sanford Feibus of Sequim, and the rhythm section has Sequim’s Mike Mills and bandleader and pianist Jones, Cole Gibson, Erik Eyestone, Tor Brandes and Chris Martinez of Port Angeles.
To find out more about the Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble, contact Jones, head of the college’s Music Department, at djones@pencol.edu or 360-417-6405.