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Winter comes to life with Jazz Winterlude
12/09/09
Winter comes to life with Jazz Winterlude
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Johnson County Community College will banish the winter blues with a new three-day jazz festival — Jazz Winterlude: Kansas City Style, Friday-Sunday, Jan. 8-10, in the acoustically stellar venues of the Carlsen Center.
Jazz Winterlude consists of two full days of jazz and a Sunday brunch. Musicians are all local. Festival-goers will hear styles from Dixieland to contemporary and everything in between — swing, big band, bebop and vocal jazz.
“Kansas City has a huge cache of wonderful musicians who deserve to be heard by a wide audience in a concert setting,” said Doreen Maronde, festival organizer.
The weekend program is:
| Friday, Jan. 8 | ||
| 4-5 p.m. | Luqman Hamza Trio | Recital Hall |
| New Red Onion Jazz Babies | Polsky Theatre | |
| 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Danny Embrey/Rod Fleeman | Recital Hall |
| Greg Carroll Quartet | Polsky Theatre | |
| 8-9 p.m. | Rich Hill/Charles Perkins Quartet | Yardley Hall |
| 9:15-10:15 p.m. | 9 Plus1 | Yardley Hall |
| Saturday, Jan. 9 | ||
| 4-5 p.m. | James Ward Trio | Recital Hall |
| Doug Talley Quintet | Polsky Theatre | |
| 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Sherry Jones/Mike Ning | Recital Hall |
| Sons of Brasil | Polsky Theatre | |
| 8-10:15 p.m. | Kansas City Jazz Orchestra | Yardley Hall |
| Sunday, Jan. 10 | ||
| 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | Sunday brunch with the Dan DeLuca Trio (music until 2 p.m.) |
Capitol Federal Conference Center |
Adding to the festival setting will be food available at Café Tempo in the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and Encore! Espresso in the Carlsen Center. Free parking is available and plentiful as Jazz Winterlude takes place during JCCC’s winter break.
Cost of Jazz Winterlude is $20 for either Friday or Saturday, $25 for both days and $20 for brunch with tickets available at the Carlsen Center box office, 913-469-4445, or online at www.jccc.edu/JazzFestival.