Dear CJC members
Please find your latest newsletter attached.
Of note, Geoff Power’s Great Gatsby Orchestra is back to play for us next month as a 10-piece. Geoff & Jennifers’s daughter Laura is off on another music project and our patron, Paul Furniss, is replacing her on reeds.
Their son James has a new baby and their first grandchild so James is taking a break.
Yours in jazz
Linda Wiese
Secretary/Editor
CJC Secretary/Editor
The “Roaring 20s” comes to ‘Jazz at Jamison’ in April with the welcome return of renowned trumpeter Geoff Power and his critically acclaimed Great Gatsby Orchestra.
Playing to huge audiences, this outstanding 10-piece orchestra delivers hot jazz, dance music and novelty songs from the 1920s and 1930s and into the Swing Era. Expect to hear music from Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Fats Waller, Lu Watters, to name a few, plus tributes to the great Australian bands and players such as Graeme Bell’s All Stars.
Geoff Power is one of this country’s most accomplished jazz musicians and his Great Gatsby Orchestra is a project dear to his heart with 5 members of his very talented family joining him in the line-up. A regular member of the orchestra is the much-in-demand virtuoso pianist and specialist in stride and ragtime piano styles, Robbie Mann. Special guest on the day will be the brilliant reeds player, Paul Furniss, another of this country’s jazz icons.
Don’t miss what will be an exceptional musical experience as Geoff Power’s Great Gatsby Orchestra returns for its much-anticipated sixth appearance in Canberra.
