Seattle Rep Jazz Orchestra reprises Quincy and Ray

EDMONDS — The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra celebrates its 20th anniversary with a reprise performance of its popular “Quincy Jones and Ray Charles on Jackson Street” concert at 8 p.m. Jan. 23 at Edmonds Center for the Arts.

The orchestra is saluting the 1940s ground-breaking jazz heard on Jackson Street in Seattle, where Charles and Jones got started.

Joining the orchestra will be singer Reggie Goings and Hammond organist Delvon Lamarr.

The program includes early jazz works by Quincy for his own big band, such as “Moanin’,” “The Quintessence,” “Happy Faces” and “Stockholm Sweetnin’,” along with pieces from the hit and hip 1961 album “Genius + Soul = Jazz,” which was a collaboration between Charles and Quincy for Atlantic Records. The tunes include “Birth of the Blues,” “One Mint Julep” and “I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town.”

Tickets are available at Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds or by calling 425-275-9595. Single tickets are $34. In an effort to encourage attendance by young people, the SRJO offers tickets for fans ages 25-and-under for $10.

To get 25 percent off your ticket price be sure to mention the code: Quincy25

The 17-piece SRJO is directed by saxophonist and arranger Michael Brockman, a longtime faculty member of the UW School of Music and an authority on the music of Duke Ellington.

It also is directed by drummer Clarence Acox, award-winning conductor of the Garfield High School jazz bands.

SRJO includes many of the region’s top jazz soloists and band leaders including trumpeters Jay Thomas and Thomas Marriott, bassist Phil Sparks, saxophonists Bill Ramsay, Travis Ranney, Tobi Stone and Mark Taylor, trombonists Dan Marcus, David Marriott, Scott Brown and Bill Anthony, and pianist Randy Halberstadt.

For more information, see srjo.org.

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