November 22 Jazz Session

Basin Street Regulars Sunday Afternoon Session Presents Ulysses Jasz from Santa Barbara
November 22^nd 1:00 pm to 4:30. Jam session starts at 11:00 am

ULYSSES JASZ is the Basin Street Regulars featured band on November 22, at the Pismo Vet’ Hall. Ulysses plays spirited New Orleans Jazz and pop songs from the 1920's and 1930's that are largely selected from the compositions of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Kurt Weill, and Hoagy Carmichael. 

ULYSSES plays this material with an infectious rhythm and spirit, characteristic of the Golden Age Jazz.  Traditional Jazz lovers love this unique Santa Barbara band.

The band consists of seven instrumentalists, a vocalist, and their own sound-man. CURT SLETTEN plays lead cornet and reminds audiences of the big bands like those of Glenn Miller, and Harry James with whom he has played. LARRY JONES is well known in jazz circles as one of the best trombonists around. BOB EFFORD on clarinet and tenor saxophone plays his clarinet weaving in and out with incisive counterpoint harmonies. DEAN DODS is on string and tuba bass.  Swinging keyboardist JOHN LEONARD has carefully acquired early styles such as Harlem Stride, and a vast repertoire of ragtime and popular pieces.  HANNA, is their jazz vocalist.  She has developed her own dynamic style from Bourbon Street to Broadway with a fresh approach.

This month’s intermission band is the Cool Notes who started as part of the award-winning Cuesta Community College Combo Program, like many popular groups in the area. They are a very adaptive group of jazz musicians and with musical stylings ranging from Jazz to Blues. The Basin Street Regulars regularly supports groups like the Cool Notes, who all grew up in the area.
 
Cool Notes features Flutist/Vocalist Talia Phillips. Duncan Green plays Tenor Sax, Matthew J. Evans on Upright Bass/Vocals, Madison Scott on Keyboard/Vocals. The drummer, Tom Brown, was sponsored by the BSR at the 2015 Cuesta College Jazz workshop.
 
Check out the Cool Notes from 2-3 pm and discover a very sophisticated, toe-tapping, brand of jazz that will leave you wondering, "How old are these kids?"

Pismo Veterans' Memorial Building, 780 Bello St. Pismo Beach CA 93449.

$10 or $5 for members.

Sandy Smallwood 773-3750