Thu 3/21 @ 7-9:30PM
Trumpet player Jack Schantz is one of the grand old men of Cleveland’s jazz scene. He earned his music degrees at the University of Akron (where he served as director of jazz studies from 1999-2020) before going on the road with such noted ensembles as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Artie Shaw Orchestra, and the Woody Herman Thundering Herd. He was artistic director of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra from 1994 to 2009, while playing in pit orchestras for touring shows at Playhouse Square, backing up national starts such as Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson and Tony Bennett, and doing double duty with ensembles such as the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and the Blossom Festival Band. And in case he wasn’t busy enough he had his own Jack Schantz Jazz Unit going on performing and recording their own material.
The Jack Schantz Jazz Unit will be heading to the BOP STOP for a special Great American Songbook concert with music by legendary songwriters such as Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen. Of course, if you’re going to do this music properly, you have to have a great singer, so they’ve enlisted the services of Barbara Rosene, a New York-based Cleveland native who sings with the Harry James Orchestra. He’ll join the eight-piece all-star Jazz Unit which includes John Orsini and Brad Wagner on saxes, George Shernit on baritone sax, Paul Ferguson on trombone, Rock Wehrmann on piano, Aidan Plank on bass and Jim Rupp on drums.
Get tickets here. The show will also be livestreamed on the BOP STOP’s YouTube channel.
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Cleveland, OH 44113