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The Jazz Center
I'M TALKIN' JAZZ Sunday at 8 am 1/5
Vocalist Jacqui Naylor with Harry Richard Hall
1/12 Saxophonist Yosvany Terry with Alisa Clancy 1/19 Trombonist Jamie Dubberly with Mal Sharpe 1/26 Clarinetist Beth Custer with Greg Bridges
RIVERWALK JAZZ Sunday at 6 pm 1/5
Jim Cullum’s Jazz Cabaret — Live at Pearl Stable
Classic American jazz is a gold mine of great music. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their guests dig up some personal favorites and flex their creative muscle on tunes never before performed on Riverwalk Jazz. It’s “the best of what you’ve never heard” in a rollicking concert performance.
pictured: San Antonio's historic Pearl Stable Image courtesy www.pearlstable.com
1/12 Lester Leaps In: The President of Tenor Sax The Jim Cullum Jazz Band — along with Harry “Sweets” Edison, Topsy Chapman and more — perform tunes made famous by the President of Tenor Sax: Lester Young (pictured). And Vernel Bagneris adds accounts of this remarkable player whose career took him from the tent show circuit to stardom on the bandstands of Kansas City.
pictured: Lester in Paris Photo: JerryJazzMusician.com
1/19 At the Jazz Band Ball: Jazz Classics Live Here’s a high-energy concert of red-hot traditional jazz classics from old New Orleans and 1920s’Chicago. Join the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and clarinetist Evan Christopher as they perform at the Stanford Jazz Workshop.
1/26 A Triple Crown of Tunesmiths: Youmans, Barris and Green pictured: Norman Rockwell Christmas Painting. Image from Extraordinary Moms Network