Come experience “The Odyssey of Saxy Jazz!” as the 2017 Jazz in the Forest summer series continues with performances at 4:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the Volcano Art Center.
Come experience “The Odyssey of Saxy Jazz!” as the 2017 Jazz in the Forest summer series continues with performances at 4:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the Volcano Art Center.
The evening’s music will take audiences though the evolution of the American jazz saxophone from the beginning of the 1900s in New Orleans, through the roaring Dixieland times of jazz and up the river to Chicago with exciting stops along the way to Kansas City.
The concerts also highlight some beautiful diversions as America opened up on the East and West coasts with the creation of many styles and personalities.
Sax soloists such as Sidney Bechet, Frank Trumbauer, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and many others have contributed to the exciting path of jazz in big bands as well as small musical combos as society changed and audiences kept on dancing to different beats.
Sax man Jean Pierre Thoma and the Jazztones will present the highlights of this odyssey with Fred Hee on guitar, Jerry Dicey on bass and Noa Eads on drums.
Dancing is encouraged and refreshments are available for both shows.
Admission is $18 for art center members, $20 for nonmembers.
Tickets are available online at www.volcanoartcenter.org, at VAC’s administration office in Volcano Village and VAC Gallery in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The last day to purchase tickets online or at VAC Gallery is today. Tickets will be sold at the door if they are not sold out.