Sun 2/8 @ 11AM & 1PM
Cleveland has a lot of amazing soul, jazz, blues and pop singers you may not know about. Many of them just plug away for years, working by day in offices, schools and hospitals, raising families and then heading out to a local club on the weekend to do their thing.
Doris Long is an extreme case of that.
Now 86, she’s been performing around the area for almost 50 years, singing pop standards from the Great American Songbook. She’s actually become MORE active in recent years. Hiring two top-flight local jazz players, pianist Joe Hunter and bassist Dallas Coffey, she snagged a standing gig at Lakewood’s Waterbury Coach House every Friday night.
The Doris Long Jazz Ensemble has been there eight years now. And she released her debut album Long Overdue (showing among other things her sense of humor) in 2012 when she was 83.
She’ll be the featured performer at a jazz brunch sponsored by the Women’s Board of Beck Center, taking place at Vosh in Lakewood. Her band also includes drummer Val Kent and sax player Al Fuller.
There will be two seatings, at 11am and 1pm. Tickets are $30 and all proceeds support programs at the Beck Center for the Arts. Go here to order tickets.
beckcenter.org/events/jazz-brunch/
Lakewood, OH 44107
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