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October - November 2016

October 10, 2016 DOUBLE CONCERT The season opener features two dynamic and very different groups from South Florida. Back for an encore visit is the Herbicide Jazz Band led by extraordinary trombonist Herb Bruce. Bruce has led an active career as a performer, educator and custom trombone designer. While living in Nashville he worked with many of the top stars including headliners like Boots Randolph, the Nashville Brass and Mr. Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Comet Band. He led the Main Street Rhythm Rascals at Walt Disney World and Rosie O’Grady’s Goodtime Jazz Band in Orlando. Joining him will be a distinguished cast of performers from around South Florida. The second act of the evening is the CCJS debut of O Som Do Jazz. This St. Petersburg group has gained a large following in South Florida in recent years. It features the vocals of Andrea Moraes Hanson, a native of Rio De Janeiro who came to Florida in 2000. Andrea sings in both English and Portugese backed by a five piece group experienced in the Brazilian style of jazz which took the country by storm in the 1960s and 70s.

November 14, 2016 JIM ROBERTS Saxtet The Jim Roberts Saxtet has been a long-time audience favorite at Jazz Society Artists Series concerts. Roberts was the first featured performer to play at a CCJS concert when he took the stage with a trio in the summer of 1991. Since then he's returned many times with varying formats. But the Saxtet, featuring a three saxophone front line, has been the biggest hit of them all. Although Roberts is a formidable pianist, the Saxtet concerts tend to highlight his arranging talent. Roberts' arrangements have found a place in the libraries of several big bands including that of the late Duke Ellington. Roberts has been a resident of Orlando since 1991, where he's one of the most in-demand pianists around. Before the move to Florida, and throughout his formative years in the business he lived and performed in New York City. While there he worked with prominent artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Howard McGhee, Thad Jones, Illinois Jacquet, Ron Carter and Charlie Rouse. He has appeared on "The Today Show" and "Good Morning America." He has performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, The Kool Jazz Festival, and the Greenwich Village Jazz Festival. Concerts begin at 7 pm, at the Cultural Center Theater, 2280 Aaron St., Port Charlotte. Admission is FREE for CCJS members; $20 for non-members. Tickets are available at the box office starting at 6:30 pm on concert night or in advance through the box office at 625-4175 X 221. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Tony Boffa Marco Knapp & James Stern Bill Whitney

December - IRA SULLIVAN

George & Alice Clattenburg Raul & Betty Fernandez Ray & Kay Kopczyk Dave & Florence Martin Lucille & Gene Murphy Harry & Patricia Rodman

JoAnn & Tim Schwab Michael & Barbie Smiley Jacqueline Vadney Stephanie Garrett & Charles Walls Marie & Cary Zolot

February– Piano Legend DICK HYMAN

IGHT ND JAZZ N CT A B IG B PROJE January SOTA JAZZ THE SARA

HT LAND NIG T IE IX D l– ri p TE A EARY SEX L B O B h it w March – L isa and J.B. S Kelly cott

YOU CAN BECOME A LEGACY SUPPORTER Charlotte County Jazz Society is deeply grateful to former members Marjorie Jean Biermann, Helen Langdon, and Donatella and Ken Neumann. Their generous bequests now play a major role in helping fund the outstanding jazz artists brought to our community by CCJS. They have also been instrumental in supporting our commitment to pass on our love of jazz with the awarding of annual scholarships to graduating high school seniors. We invite you to join us in our mission to preserve, promote and present live jazz by including CCJS in your will, trust, retirement account or life insurance policy, or with a donation to CCJS in honor or memory of a fellow jazz lover. For more detailed information, please call the Jazz Hotline, 941-766-9422.

A REMINDER TO ALL SCHOOL BAND DIRECTORS All directors, middle school, high school and college students will be given a FREE pass to get into any CCJS concert. Please stop by the membership desk as you enter the theater with your ID for your free pass for the evening. 2

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Charlotte County Jazz Society Community Partners

2016-2017 CCJS Supporters Hipster: ($15-$49) Bopper: ($50-$99) Patricia Dubey

Cool Cat: ($100-$249) Big Band Swinger:($250-$499) Annual Deluxe Membership: ($500 - $10,000)

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ur first jazz jam of the 2016-17 season will be on Sunday October 30 at the Kingsway Golf Course, 13625 SW Kingsway Cir, Lake Suzy Fl, 34269 from 1-4 pm. We’re all about jazz. Come sit in or just sit and enjoy. Tickets are FREE for members, and $5 for non -members. Food and drinks are available for purchase. JAM DATES: Oct 30, Nov 27, Dec 18, Jan 29, Feb 26, Mar 26, Apr 30

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Jazz at the Library was great fun in March for all...

Photos by Ken Franckling

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Spotlighting Naples-area jazz talent Two Naples FL bandleaders brought their groups to Port Charlotte on Monday, April 11 to close the Charlotte County Jazz Society's 25th Anniversary Season with a double concert. Dave Morgan, a triple threat performer on vibes, vocals and drums, stuck to the first two skills in a strong performance by his quartet, which included Mac Chrupcala on piano, Mark Neuenschwander on bass and Bill E. Peterson on drums. Morgan dug deep into the jazz repertoire to present several clas- Dave Morgan, Mark Neuenschwander sic tunes that aren't heard much these days. They included Illinois Jacquet and Sir Charles Thompson's "Robbin's Nest," Eddie Harris' "Freedom Jazz Dance" (the latter a feature for Chrupcala), and Duke Ellington's "Azure," which featured Morgan on both vibes and vocals. Vibes player Milt Jackson's composition "J.C." spotlighted Neuenschwander, who Morgan described as "one of the finest bass players to walk this earth." Few listeners would disagree. The band's take on "J.C." included intriguing conversational call-and-response segments between the bass and the vibes. Peterson well understands the art of musical conversation between all of the players on the bandstand, adding sly comments and strong punctuation with his sticks and brushes throughout the set. The crowd was treated to another Naples drum great, James Martin, during the second half of the show, which featured trumpeter Bob Zottola's quartet, Jazz Simpatico. The band was rounded out by bassist Kevin Mauldin and pianist Stu Shelton (who also was aboard for CCJS' season-opening concert when he played in singer-drummer Patricia Dean's band). Zottola, a New York big band veteran and 16-year member of Broadway's "Les Miserables" pit band before moving to Florida in 2004, offered a looser program with a wide range of material and perhaps too many vocals. He's a trumpet master - and more than a few in the audience weren't there to hear him sing.

Bill E. Peterson

The band's repertoire included Ivan Lins' sultry Brazilian bossa nova hit "Love Dance" (recorded by many singers including Barbra Streisand and George Benson) and strong takes on Clark Terry's arrangement of "Perdido" and Clifford Brown's bouncy "Joy Spring." Zottola tipped his hat to the classic Miles Davis sound with his Harmon-muted take on "Bye Bye Blackbird." His flugelhorn rendition of Sidney Bechet's "Si Tu Vois Ma Mere," an aching ballad that dominated the music in Woody Allen's film "Midnight in Paris," was superb.

Bob Zottola

Shelton, Mauldin and Martin provided exemplary support throughout the set. Martin is interesting because of the wide range of subtle touches and extensive accents he gets out of his minimalist drum kit. Because he drives an Austin Healy, he packs just a tiny bass drum, one snare, two cymbals and a hi-hat, but he gets a phenomenal amount of music from them. A lot of younger drummers should pay close attention to his approach. It's not how much gear you have, it's what you do with it. James Martin

Reprinted with permission from writer-photographer Ken Franckling’s Jazz Notes blog.

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Harry Allen, Rebecca Kilgore It was a night for revealing new aspects in a wide range of jazz and vintage popular standards. Allen & Co. more than did them justice. Way more.

Over his 30-year-plus career, Allen has developed into a first-tier player whose playing style blends fire, inventiveness and subtlety. Initially influenced by the sounds of onetime mentor Scott Hamilton, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Ben Webster, Allen has absorbed much from those tenor masters and others - distilling it into a very personal sound.

2016 Scholarship award winners are: from left: Tammy Tran and Jonattan Declet of Port Charlotte High School - Reed Coffey and Alejandro Perdomo of Charlotte High School. Also pictured here is CCJS Scholarship Chairman Ennis Bisbano. Jazz Journalists Association honors one of our own Each June, the Jazz Journalists Association holds a matinee program in Manhattan to honor journalists, broadcasters and photographers who have done distinguished work in the past year. JJA's voting members selected veteran jazz journalist and photographer Ken Franckling as 2016’s winner of the Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Jazz Photography (for work published during 2015). Franckling, who has done volunteer concert photography for CCJS since moving to Southwest Florida five years ago from New England, also won the award in 2003. “I am humbled by the honor, knowing full well that each of the five other nominees was just as deserving,” he said. “As best I can surmise, my book, Jazz in the Key of Light, must have developed some degree of awareness within the JJA community over the past year and a half.” 6

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C A P F I R T E E D L L I

Local Jazz Beat SwingThe Charlotte County Big Band John Johnson, Director

INGROOV JAZZ QUARTET

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performs a Jazz Mass on the first Sunday of each month at 6:45 pm thru May Hope Lutheran Church 14200 Hopewell Avenue (Gillot Blvd off 776, then first right on service road) Port Charlotte - 941.697.2345

10-3-16 11-7-16 12-5-16 1- 2–17 2- 6-17 3- 6-17 4– 3-17

For more information, Fred Capitelli 941-743-2157 for more INGROOV BIG BAND events including Alternate Thursdays at the Cultural Center from 2 til 4pm.

T H E A T E R

Mondays 7 pm

Tribute to Duke Ellington Tribute to Count Basie Tribute to Glenn Miller Tribute to Benny Goodman Tribute to Stan Kenton Tribute to Woody Herman Tribute to Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey

Cultural Center of Charlotte County 2280 Aaron Street Port Charlotte, FL 33952 Box Office 941-625-4175 X 221 $12 Reserved seats in advance By phoning 941-625-4175 ex 221

JAZZ Monday thru Saturdays at

JD’S JAZZ CLUB & FINE DINING 1951 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte.

Tuesday

Mickey Basil and friends 6:30 to 9:30 pm

Wednesdays Kitt Moran Trio with pianist Mike Moran and bassist Dominic Mancini. 6:30 to 9:30 pm Thursdays Mickey Basil Trio with guitarist Tony Boffa and bassist Dominic Mancini 6:30 to 9:30 pm Fridays Mickey Basil Trio featuring singer Lynn Richardson. 6:30 to 10 pm

MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE SINGLE $50 - COUPLE $90 1 CONCERT COSTS $20 for non-members

Saturdays Tony Boffa Jazz Quartet 6:30 to 10 pm Call ahead for reservations 941-255-0994

Members get 7 Concerts, 7 Jams and other activities Membership card active for 1 year from the month that you join. 7

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P.O. Box 495321 Port Charlotte, Florida 33949

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2016-2017 Concert Season October 10

DOUBLE CONERT HERB BRUCE & the HERBICIDE Jazz Band O SOM DO JAZZ

CCJS 2016 Officers Dave Nims, President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941.743.9511 Ennis Bisbano, Vice-President . . . . . . . . . 941.623.0619 Chris (Brown) Fitzgerald, Treasurer . . . . . .941.629.5338 John Johnson, Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .941.876.4054

Directors

November 14

JIM ROBERTS Saxtet

December 12

IRA SULLIVAN

January 9

BIG BAND JAZZ NIGHT THE SARASOTA JAZZ PROJECT

Fred Capitelli, Board Development. . . . . . 941.743.2157 Dan Cobb, Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740.361.4060 Jim Howarth, Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941.505.2789 Aaron Lucas, Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pam Koontz, Board Development . . . . . . 941.749.0469 Mike Parmelee, Concert & Jam Coordinator . . . . . . Lynda Platt, Long-Range Planning . . . . . . 941.347.8403 Gerald Wilkins, Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941.255.0383 Tom Osborne, Business & Community. . . 941.766.8645

February 13

Piano Legend DICK HYMAN

Bobbie Gasparri, Honorary Director

March 13

LISA KELLY and JB SCOTT

April 10

DIXIELAND NIGHT BOB LEARY Sextet

CCJS HOTLINE: 941.766.9422 www.ccjazz.org www.facebook.com/ccjazzsociety Photography by Ken Franckling