This week's music lineup continues as Jazz! Carson City 2011 has several shows planned in the coming days. Jazz! Carson City is a month-long festival hosted by the Mile High Jazz Band Association, Carson City, local businesses, and jazz lovers.
Tuesday
TONIGHT! Discover Music - Great Basin Brass Quintet
Tues., Aug. 23, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 W. King Street
From black tux to t-shirt, concert hall to rooftop, the Great Basin Brass Quintet has been entertaining audiences for more than thirty years. They also bring brass music into elementrary schools and to the public through the Discover Music program of the Reno Philharmonic. When these guys get together, be prepared for a wonderful, close up, interactive musical experience - you may even get treated to a tune played on common everyday garden hoses! Members are: Paul Lenz and Larry Engstrom, trumpets; John Lenz, horn; Leonard Neidhold, trombone; and Russ Dickman, tuba.
Wednesday
Jazz Guys - Wed., Aug. 24, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Sierra Place, 1111 W. College Parkway
A local favorite, The Jazz Guys four-piece band plays great tunes, sharing clever anecdotes and lively stories as their spirits move them. They play everything from Dixie and be-bop to bossas and big-band swing. Gil Linsley is featured on trumpet and flugelhorn; Dan Lancaster on sax, clarinet, and flute; George Worth on bass and trombone (sometimes simultaneously); and Mark Ashworth on drums. In summer, for several years, they played sunset cruises on Lake Tahoe on the Woodwind II catamaran. Today, Sierra Place dusts off their dance floor, and you'll have some great fun.
Jam Session - Wed., Aug. 24, 7:30-10:30 p.m.
Firkin & Fox, on the deck, 310 S. Carson St.
Come to listen, come to play - Jazz musicians are invited to sit in!
Thursday
Jazz Film Mini-festival - “Mary Lou Williams: Music on My Mind”
A film by Joanne Burke (1990, 60 minutes)
Thurs., Aug. 25, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 W. King St.
Pioneering African-American composer-arranger-pianist Mary Lou Williams is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of jazz. In this authoritative film, lively interviews with Williams, Dizzy Gillepsie, and Buddy Tate interweave the musical and personal elements of her dramatic life. At the height of her career, she dropped out of music to help drug-addicted musicians in Harlem, and made a triumphant comeback fifteen years later. This film, a spirited tribute to Williams' indelible contribution to American culture, is narrated by Roberta Flack. Rita Geil, writer and jazz connoisseur, will introduce the movie and lead a discussion afterward. Jazz! Carson City - Tues, Wed., Thurs.