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N E W S L E T T E R Volume XII: Number 9 Rochester, New York September, 2011 _______________________________ E n j o y a s u m m e r e v e n i n g w i t h t h e m u s i c a l s t y l i n g s o f J o n S e i g e r ’ s C a n - A m J a z z B a n d . The Can Am Jazz Band is an exciting New Orleans and Dixieland Jazz band, specializing in great American Music. Made up of the finest of American and Canadian musicians, these guys specialize in the music of Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and many others. Led by renowned Toronto pianist Jordan Klapman, the band always thrills and delights audiences wherever they perform. Jon Seiger (Trumpet, Piano and Vocals) is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. He studied with Jimmy Giuffre, John McNeill and trumpet great Roy Eldridge. Jon has played with such notables as The Drifters, The Shirelles, Ella Fitzgerald, Doc Cheatham, Marty Napoleon, Joe Muranyi, Dick Katz, Chuck Folds, Maynard Ferguson, Billy Eckstine, Arvell Shaw, Panama Francis, Joe Williams, Bob Haggart, Oliver Jackson, Bobby Pratt, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Gap Mangione, Nancy Kelly, Jimmy Maxwell, Jimmy McPartland, Sammy Price, Dick Oakley, Ken Peplowski, Sol Yaged, Fred Raulston, Ed Polcer, Stephanie Nakasian, and many others. In 1988 he performed at Carnegie Hall with the Hi-Tops. Jon was the house bandleader at The King Cole Room at The St. Regis Hotel in New York City for 3 years. He swings with many other bands, including the All-Stars, the Metropolitan Stompers, the Hi-Tops, and the Rhythm Aces, and has played with several surviving members of Louis Armstrong's band. Jon has performed in England, France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Liechtenstein, and Spain. Jon performs several times a year in Argentina, Jamaica, Canada, and many other places in the United States and around the world. …Continues on p2.
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NEWSLETTER
Volume XII: Number 9 Rochester, New York September, 2011
_______________________________ Enjoy a summer evening with the musical stylings of
Jon Seiger’s Can-Am Jazz Band.
The Can Am Jazz Band is an exciting New Orleans and Dixieland Jazz band, specializing in great American Music. Made up of the finest of American and Canadian musicians, these guys specialize in the music of Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and many others. Led by renowned Toronto pianist Jordan Klapman, the band always thrills and delights audiences wherever they perform. Jon Seiger (Trumpet, Piano and Vocals) is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. He studied with Jimmy Giuffre, John McNeill and trumpet great Roy Eldridge. Jon has played with such notables as The Drifters, The Shirelles, Ella Fitzgerald, Doc Cheatham, Marty Napoleon, Joe Muranyi, Dick Katz, Chuck Folds, Maynard Ferguson, Billy Eckstine, Arvell Shaw, Panama Francis, Joe Williams, Bob Haggart, Oliver Jackson, Bobby Pratt, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Gap Mangione, Nancy Kelly, Jimmy Maxwell, Jimmy McPartland, Sammy Price, Dick Oakley, Ken Peplowski, Sol Yaged, Fred Raulston, Ed Polcer, Stephanie Nakasian, and many others. In 1988 he performed at Carnegie Hall with the Hi-Tops. Jon was the house bandleader at The King Cole Room at The St. Regis Hotel in New York City for 3 years. He swings with many other bands, including the All-Stars, the Metropolitan Stompers, the Hi-Tops, and the Rhythm Aces, and has played with several surviving members of Louis Armstrong's band. Jon has performed in England, France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Liechtenstein, and Spain. Jon performs several times a year in Argentina, Jamaica, Canada, and many other places in the United States and around the world. …Continues on p2.
Page 2 Floyd Hughes (Trombone and Vocals) has his Masters Degree in Music Education from Ball State University in Indiana, and is also a graduate of SUNY College at Fredonia. Floyd played in the US Army Marching Band and the US Army Jazz Band while stationed at Fort Jackson. Floyd taught instrumental music in the West Irondequoit, NY, school system, and has played trombone regularly with Billy Spitz and the Dixieland Stompers, the Bourbon Street Jazz Band, and leads his own group, the Stompers and All That Jazz. Floyd has also played with the big bands of Duke Spinner, Chick Edmonds, and Bud DeTar. Floyd is also an excellent vocalist and tenor banjo player, and does many solo gigs in the Rochester area. Jordan Klapman (Piano and Vocals) is an accomplished jazz pianist from Canada, equally at home performing in jazz festivals, clubs, theatres, and concert halls. he has appeared on CBC radio and television, and on JazzFM as both a performer and class jazz radio show co-host with the late Jeff Healey. Over the past 30 years, Jordan has worked with many other notable jazz performers including Oliver Jones, Jon Seiger, Adi Braun, Julie Michels, Tony Quarrington, Sharon Smith, John Roby, and Mick Lewis. He also leads his own groups: A Tribute to Ella and Louis, 100 Years of Waller, The SHINE Quintet, The Stride Kings, and The Forbidden Weimar Kabarett. Jordan is a member of several other classic jazz bands including The Hot Five Jazz Makers, Chris McKhool's FiddleFire!, and The Yiddish Swingtet. In 2004 Jordan released 100 Years of Waller, an album dedicated to Fats Waller's greatest hits. Next came 2007's SHINE, a quintet album of classic jazz instruments with Climax Jazz Band clarientist Mick Lewis, and The Yiddish Swingtet's SHUL Days, combining two of Jordan's favorite music genres, swing and klezmer. Selections from these latter two CDs can currently be heard internationally on both CBC and Sirius Radio. Lynn Eberhardt (Bass and Vocals) is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music , and has done graduate work at Eastman and at S.U.N.Y. Brockport. Lynn was the bass player in the U.S. Coast Guard Band for four years. He has played with many jazz notables including the Metropolitan Stompers, Nancy Kelly, Beale Street Bandwagon, the Crazy Firemen, and many others. Lynn ‘s solid four-on-the-floor beat always keeps our timing solid and our style swingin’. Chuck Morey (Drums and Vocals) is one of the finest drummers playing today. Chuck was the principal percussionist with the 89th Army Band for four years. He has played with many famous bands, including Tommy Dorsey, Les Elgart, Tex Beneke, Nelson Riddle, Clyde McCoy, and Jimmy Dorsey. He has played in bands backing such notables as Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Andy Williams, Jerry Lewis, Carol Channing, Phyllis Diller, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McCrae, Melba Moore, Shirley MacClaine, Jack Jones, Al Martino, Joe Williams, Della Reece, Billy Eckstine, Doc Severinson, Vic Damone, Theresa Brewer, Helen Forrest, and many others. He has played in small jazz groups led by Urbie Green, Clark Terry, Red Norvo, Bobby Hackett, Joe Venuti, and with Jack Mahue's Salt City Six. We are always thrilled to work with him and he always adds new and exciting rhythms to our music. Peter Ferran (Clarinet) is one of the best clarinet players in the Western NY area. Peter has played with all the best bands in the area including Jon Seiger and the All-Stars, Beale Street Bandwagon, and many others. Peter is a professor of English and Theater at Rochester Institute of Technology, and is a favorite among audiences and bandleaders alike.”
FLOWER CITY JAZZ SOCIETY, INC., ROCHESTER, NY The FLOWER CITY JAZZ SOCIETY was formed to preserve and promote Dixieland Jazz in Greater Rochester. FLOWER CITY JAZZ SOCIETY, INC., is a licensee of ASCAP.
[Email address: [email protected]] [Website: www.flowercityjazz.org] c/o R. Lacey, 7 Alicia Circle, Churchville, NY 14428.
Membership dues are $15 per person for one year. Dinner-Concerts are held on the 3rd Monday of the month, January through December, at The Green Lantern Inn, One East Church St, Fairport, NY 14450 (223-0556) (Handicap-accessible). The FLOWER CITY JAZZ SOCIETY NEWSLETTER is published monthly. Please send newsletter info to: Bob Rutzen, 5 Runnymede Rd., Rochester, NY, 14618 [[email protected]]
Board of Directors 2011
President Dick Lacey 293-2548 Newsletter Editor Bob Rutzen 461-9015 [[email protected]] Education: Molly Rutzen 461-9015 Vice-president Equipment: George Morris 381-3688 & Hospitality Chairperson Special Activities Kathie Campbell 248-5864 Jean Morris 381-3688 [[email protected]] Joy Mulhern 387--0029 Secretary Donna Lacey 293-2548 Governance Jeanne Thomann 227-6684 [[email protected]] Merchandising: Rod Ham 624-4709 Treasurer Dave Sturmer 381-7603 Membership & Historian [[email protected]] Carolyn Bastian 586-8294 Dinner Reservations Website Kent Campbell 248-5864 Mickey Collier 381-5543 The Monday September 12th board meeting will be at 7 at the Lacey’s home.
Please cut the reservation slip on the dotted line ONLY; I need uniform size slips for filing. Mickey Cut here ……………………………………………………………………………………………Cut here
Dinner Reservation Form _____________________________________________________________________________ (Last name) (First) (Telephone) (Email)
__________________________ (Name of spouse or companion)
Please send your reservation form and payment by Monday, Sept.12, Thank you. Please mail to Mickey Collier, 1725 Qualtrough Rd. Rochester, NY 14625
This is the Menu For Monday. September 19, 2011 at 6:30 pm.
Pot Roast with Baked Potato………….$17 Chicken French with Rice Pilaf……....$18 Shrimp Scampi with Rice Pilaf……….$21
Cheesecake is available for Dessert. …$ 4
(Please make your check payable to Flower City Jazz Society)
Enclosed check total $_________
FLOWER CITY JAZZ SOCIETY, INC., ROCHESTER, NY Board of Directors 2011 President Dick Lacey 293-2548 Newsletter Editor Bob Rutzen 461-9015 [[email protected]] Education: Molly Rutzen 461-9015 Secretary Donna Lacey 293-2548 Equipment: George Morris 381-3688 [[email protected]] Special Activities Jean Morris 381-3688 Treasurer Dave Sturmer 381-7603 Governance Jeanne Thomann 227-6684 [[email protected]] Merchandising: Rod Ham 624-4709 Website Kent Campbell 248-5864 Membership & Historian Carolyn Bastian 586-8294 Hospitality Kathy Campbell 248-5864 Dinner Reservations Mickey Collier 381-5543
1725 Qualtrough Rd., Rochester, NY 14625 The FLOWER CITY JAZZ SOCIETY was formed to preserve and promote Dixieland Jazz in Greater Rochester. FLOWER CITY JAZZ SOCIETY, INC., c/o R. Lacey, 7 Alicia Circle, Churchville, NY 14428.
[Licensee of ASCAP] [Email address: [email protected]] [Website: www.flowercityjazz.org] Membership dues are $15 per person for one year. Dinner-Concerts are held on the 3rd Monday of the month, January through December, at
The Green Lantern Inn, One East Church St, Fairport, NY 14450 (223-0556) (Handicap-accessible). The FLOWER CITY JAZZ SOCIETY NEWSLETTER is published monthly.
If you do not receive your newsletter for a particular month, please contact Dick Lacey, Please send newsletter copy by the 15th of the month to
Bob Rutzen, 5 Runnymede Rd., Rochester, NY, 14618 [[email protected]]
The Flower City Jazz Society Traveler’s Report: "Alexander's Ragtime Band," Irving Berlin's first hit song is100 years old in 2011. Rochester's Rundell Library, 115 South Ave (3rd floor auditorium) is holding several "Ragtime Celebrations" on several Sunday afternoons (2pm-3pm): See "events" at libraryweb.org for dates. For interesting reading on this topic, see wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander's_Ragtime_Band and www.americanmusicpreservation.com/AlexandersRagtimeBandCentennial.htm.
Thank you for renewing: Eleanor Arena, Niles Barlow, James Barringer, Richard Brookins, Ron & Judi Fleming, Floyd & Gladys Gage, Ted Howes, Floyd & Gretchen Hughes, Don Hunt, John Lamb, Mary-Edna Meyer, Don Quinn, Jacque Rizzo, Kay Salerno, Connie Steedman, Bob & Sandy Tombs, Jeanne Thomann.
Support Live Music:
Th. 9/1/11 Mary Jemison Jazz Cruise, 7pm-8:30pm, Smugtown Stompers w/ Carol Mulligan Corn Hill Landing. Call 585-662-5748. Paid reservations ($15) required. Sat. 9/10/11 Pittsford Days with the Smugtown Stompers, 2pm-3pm. M 9/19/11 Flower City Jazz… Jon Seiger’s Can-Am Jazz Band\ M 10/17/11 Flower City Jazz…. Bourbon Street Parade Sun. 10/23/11 Ragtime Celebration, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" centennial year celebration with The Smugtown Stompers 2pm-3pm, Rundell Public Library M 11/21/11 Flower City Jazz…Tri-City Jazz
M 12/19/11 Flower City Jazz…Gap Mangione and the New Big Band
CAM AM JAZZ BAND
