The Buzz Jones Quintet will present a concert of jazz standards on Sunday, July 27 at 6:00 p.m. at the United Lutheran Seminary. Author and critic Martha Bayles relates that “The Great American Songbook is the retrospective label for a body of music, from jazz standards to show tunes, largely created during the first half of the 20th century. Because it emerged alongside radio and recording, the Songbook includes not just written scores but performances by the finest singers and instrumentalists of the time, captured on wax cylinders, shellac discs and vinyl—and accessible today on compact discs and, of course, digitally.”
The ensemble will perform music of Songbook masters George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and two of Hoagy Carmichael’s timeless classics, Stardust and Georgia on My Mind. Also on the program are a Jobim bossa nova, music of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, a Buzz Jones original, and a jazz rendition of Take Me Out to the Ballgame!
The concert will take place at the performance pavilion in Schmucker Grove on the seminary campus. Bring a blanket or lawn chairs, and a picnic dinner to enjoy this concert, which is free and open to the public. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will move next door to the ULS chapel. Check the website at www.musicgettysburg.org for last-minute updates.