Helen Daley The Arizona Classic Jazz Society (ACJS) considers their October Sunday jazz event a warmup for the festival in November. This year will be no exception. Dan Reed’s Dixieland Hotshots serve as a reminder of the fun you experience through Traditional Jazz music. In fact, Dan’s goal is to “Keep It Fun.” Dan plays…
Helen Daley The Arizona Classic Jazz Society (ACJS) appreciates jazz every month. However, in 2001 April was designated as the official “Jazz Appreciation Month” (JAM) by the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. Its purpose is to recognize and celebrate the role of early jazz in our heritage and musical history. Jazz is known around the…
Helen Daley Many of you missed an absolutely fantastic event on the first weekend of November. Please don’t miss the December jazz party. The Arizona Classic Jazz Society will present Dan Reed’s Dixieland Hotshots on Sunday, December 2, 2018, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf Resort in Chandler. The annual…
Helen Daley The Arizona Classic Jazz Society is pleased to announce that their new traditional jazz season opens with a program presented by the Sun City Stomperz on Sunday, September 16, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf Resort, Chandler. ACJS presents wonderful live music every month from…
Helen Daley “Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,” (Jack Norworth) or better yet, come and listen to the performance by the Crackerjack Jazz Band on March 18, 2018, at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf Resort in beautiful Downtown Chandler.…
Helen Daley It’s Mardi Gras time again. Put on your dancing shoes and grab your umbrella. This year, Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) falls on February 13. The date of Mardi Gras changes every year, because it is connected to Easter, ending 47 days before Easter when Lent starts. Easter falls on the first Sunday after…
Helen Daley This is such an exciting time of the year, especially for the Arizona Classic Jazz Festival. The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys will be joining the Festival lineup for the first time. Their eight performances over the weekend include the Grand Finale on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. The Swamp Donkeys describe their style as…
Lisa Wall Welcome back to the fall festivities, snowbirds and permanent residents. It is time for fun again, so you won’t want to miss the musical events performed by Diana Perez, our own resident here in Sun Lakes. She will be performing regularly on the patio in Sun Lakes 1 and has been invited to…
Helen Daley My personal opinion is that the greatest injustice to music was referring to so many different styles as jazz. It seems that if an early jazz musician who may have started with Traditional Jazz began experimenting with a different style, it was still called jazz. Examples are Latin, Bebop, funk, fusion, acid, straight-ahead,…
Helen Daley The Arizona Classic Jazz Society is happy to announce that they are starting their new season of Traditional Jazz at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf Resort. The Sun City Stomperz will take the stage on September 17 to showcase the wonderful music of the first three decades of the 20th Century. The…