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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/cleveland-jazz-orchestra-concert-hono
 rs-its-history-and-its-future/
SUMMARY:Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Concert Honors Its History and Its Future
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 5/9 @ 7:30-9:30PM\nSat 5/10 @ 8PM\nFor 40 years\, the Cle
 veland Jazz Orchestra has provided an outlet for the cream of northeast Oh
 io’s jazz musicians to perform big band music\, as well as to compose an
 d arrange for that format. The ensemble is a mixture of some of the area
 ’s storied veteran players as well as its young rising stars.\nIt will b
 e celebrating its legacy and its continuing vibrancy this weekend with a p
 rogram called “Past Present and Future\,” which it will perform Friday
  at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in University Circle and on Saturday 
 at BLU Jazz+ in downtown Akron. It will tip its musical hat to previous di
 rectors\, including its first formal conductor Roland Paolucci\, his succe
 ssor trumpeter Jack Schantz (still an ensemble member) and young trumpet p
 layer Sean Jones who led the ensemble from 2009-2015. Trombone player Paul
  Ferguson currently leads the group. Among the pieces it will perform are 
 new arrangements by current CJO members Aidan Plank and Brad Wagner\, and 
 original works by former CJO members Chas Baker\, Sam Blakeslee\, and Howi
 e Smith. It will also honor Baker for his contributions to the ensemble an
 d to the jazz scene and music education in northeast Ohio.\nGet tickets fo
 r the Maltz concert here and the BLU Jazz+ concert here.\n\nclevelandjazz\
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