Congratulations for a fantastic performance on Friday night!
See you by 6:30pm on Sunday, November 23rd, at Flesher-Hinton Music Store, for our weekly rehearsal.
The $500 trip payment #2 was due by October 31st, so please bring it on Sunday, if you haven’t paid already (or as much of it as you can). Any family members joining us need to turn in their 2nd $450 trip payment as well.
Please be prepared to play pp. 9 & 15. We will also do a tune in all 12 keys.
The rest of the transcription solos are all due – Spencer (complete St. James), Ben (Finish Big Butter and Egg Man), Mika (After You’ve Gone written solo), Tom E (Finger Breaker), Andrew (St. James Infirmary), and Tom M (I’ve Found a New Baby).
Please continue preparing Cornet Chop Suey, New Orleans Stomp, and Ory’s Creole Trombone for Sunday.
We will read: Exactly Like You, Lazy River, Yakity Sax, Alabama Jubilee, Willow Weep for Me, Lulu’s Back in Town, Sweet Georgia Brown, St. Louis Blues, Bye Bye Blackbird, and It Tain’t No Sin.
All dates and driving directions can be found on the Event Calendar page.
The set order and reference recordings can be found on the Downloads page.
These are our available performance dates. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know as soon as possible if you have a conflict with any of these dates:
November 23-26 (No Jake), 28-30 (No Jake)
December 1, 2 No Spencer; No Alex until 6:30pm), 3 (No Alex until 6:30pm), 4 (No Ben; No Alex until 6:30pm)), 5 (No Tom M), 6 (No Ben & Tom M), 7-8 (No Tom M), 9-10 (No Ben), 11 (No Spencer), 12-15, 16 (No Alex), 17-18, 19 (No Ben), 20-21
January 1-7, 8 (No Spencer), 9, 10 (No Spencer until 7pm), 11, 12 (No Spencer), 13, 15-18, 19 (No Ben), 20, 22 (No Alex), 23-26, 27 (No Alex), 31
February 1, 2 (No Alex), 3, 5, 6-7 (No Alex), 8-10, 12, 13-16 (No Tom M), 17, 19 (No Ben), 20, 22-24, 26-28 (No Alex)
March 1-6, 8-9, 10 (No Alex), 12-17, 28-31
April 2-6, 7 (No Spencer), 9-14, 16-21, 23-28
May 1-4, 5 (No Alex), 7 (Possibly no Alex), 8-11, 12 (No Spencer), 14-19, 20 (No Spencer & Tom M), 21 (No Andrew), 22 (No Alex in the morning), 23 (No Jake & Ben until mid afternoon), 24-31
June 1-30
July 1-14, 18-31
August (2015) 1-8
Upcoming Performances/Special Rehearsals:
Sunday, November 30: (6:30-9pm) Clinic/rehearsal w/Wende Harston (Private lessons before the rehearsal – 5-5:45pm & 5:45-6:30pm)
Sunday, December 7th: (6:30-9pm) Clinic/rehearsal w/Bill Clark (Andrew’s private lesson from 5:45 until 6:30pm)
Sunday, December 14th: (3-5:30pm) Early Rehearsal/(5:30-9pm) Performance at the Bull & Bush Pub (6:50-9pm sets)
Sunday, December 21: (3:15-9pm) DJC holiday potluck performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal
Sunday, January 18: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal
Monday, January 26: (6:15-9:30pm) Performance at The Wind Crest Retirement Community (3235 Mill Vista Rd, Highlands Ranch, 7:30-8:30pm Performance)
Sunday, February 1: (1-3:30pm) Special early Super Bowl Rehearsal
Thursday, February 5: (4:30-6:15pm) Performance at the Mile High Jazz Festival (Ralston Valley HS, Arvada)
Sunday, February 15: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal (No Tom M)
Sunday, March 15: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal
Sunday, April 19: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal
Sunday, May 17: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal
Friday, May 22 – Monday, May 25: Sacramento Music Festival and Jubilee (Alex departs on Friday aft/Jake C & Ben depart late aft. on Saturday)
Monday, June 8: (6-9pm) Performance w/MJO at Dazzle Jazz Club
Tuesday, June 9: (5:30-8:30pm) Performance on Live KUVO 89.3 FM Radio Show
Wednesday, June 10: (9:30am-4:30pm) Recording Studio Session at Mighty Fine Productions (5225 E. 38th Ave, Denver)
Sunday, June 21: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal
Thursday, July 2 – Friday, July 10: Montreux, Switzerland Jazz Festival/Europe Trip
Sunday, July 19: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal
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