The Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra will be performing stunning classic and modern/contemporary arrangements of holiday classics to help 鈥渟wing鈥� audiences into the holiday spirit at the Dekker Centre this month.
The SJO brings the beloved Christmas classic The Nutcracker Suite alongside Duke Ellington鈥檚 jazz take on it 鈥� a night of holiday cheer and a jazzy good time. This SJO SK tour will also feature Saskatoon鈥檚 acclaimed vocalist Jessica Robinson and the entire SJO swinging crew.
The three-city tour starts with North Battleford Dec. 13 and goes on to Moose Jaw and Saskatoon on the 14th and 15th respectively.
The Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra is committed to presenting the highest caliber professional large jazz ensemble music through its programming and through the featuring of local and nationally/internationally celebrated jazz talent. Through these concert activities the SJO delivers top-quality art music while professionally developing many of its own established and emerging jazz musicians.
While some SJO concerts are retrospective in nature (e.g. Friends Remembered 2015 SK. tour, Tribute to Duke Ellington, Tribute to Frank Sinatra), others are visionary (e.g. 2014 jazz festival performance of Phil Dwyer鈥檚 Changing Seasons (for large jazz orchestra, string orchestra and classical solo violinist Mark Fewer), large ensemble orchestrations of Mike Rud鈥檚 Juno award winning CD Notes on Montreal). All concerts feature important current and emerging musicians whose work intersects with the large jazz ensemble idiom specifically.
For many years SJO Artistic Director Dean McNeill directed the Metro Jazz Ensemble of Saskatoon (MJE), which was the precursor and the inspiration for the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra.
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