TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Walt Weiskopf Quartet with Steve Korn, Bill Anschell and Jeff Johnson
JAZZ ALLEY: Guitars and Saxes Christmas Featuring Richard Elliot, Paul Brown and Jessy J
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jannie & Friends Jazz Band, featuring American and Chinese jazz standards plus originals, with Steve Tanimoto (piano), Gary Barnes (bass), Craig Critchfield (guitar), Cal Dimas (sax), Jannie Spain (vocals)
9pm – Rochelle House, with D’Vonne Lewis (drums) and Evan Flory-Barnes (bass)
BAKE’S PLACE: Denise Donatelli Quartet
SERAFINA: Pete Leinonen’s Salon du Swing
GRAZIE: Dennis Hastings Quartet
CONCERT: Jazz Nutcracker: Roosevelt Jazz Band
Roosevelt High School Performing Arts Theatre
1410 NE 66th St, 7:30pm
from Earshot Jazz: The Roosevelt Jazz Band presents its ninth annual performance of Duke Ellington’s Jazz Nutcracker. Composed towards the end of Ellington’s career, the Jazz Nutcracker is more than a jazzy arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Christmas-time classic. Instead Ellington re-imagined Tchaikovsky’s original and brought a new collection of timbres and rhythms to the table. Along the way, Ellington renamed the movements to reflect the modern and hip sensibility of his composition. The “Dance of the Reed Pipes,” became, for example, “Toot Toot Tootie Toot” and “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” became “Sugar Rum Cherry.” Performing Arts Theatre, Roosevelt High School (1410 NE 66th St). Show starts at 7:30 pm on December 5 & 6, at 2:00 pm on December 7. Tickets $20 general/$15 seniors/$10 students & youth. Visit www.rooseveltjazz.org for tickets and more information.
HIROSHI’S JAZZ AND SUSHI: Karen Shivers & Susan Pascal
PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet