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From left: Sam Noto (tuba), Emmett Wright (trombone and vocals), band leader Fred Case (clarinet),
music director Bill Boyd (trumpet) and Bill Chocianowski (banjo).

 

July 12: The Good Times Dixieland (Jazz) Band

Florida’s most experienced group of Dixieland musicians—the Good Times Jazz Band—will perform from 2 PM Sunday, July 12, at the next Space Coast Jazz Society concert in the Cocoa Beach Country Club, 5000 Tom Warriner Blvd. in Cocoa Beach.

Tickets will be available at the door.  Music charge is $7 for SCJS members and $10 for nonmembers. Students free.

These musicians have played for decades— at Walt Disney World, on the paddle-wheeled cruise ships on the Mississippi, in clubs in New Orleans, and as members of Rosy O’Grady’s Good Time Jazz Band at Church Street Station in Orlando. The band’s leader, Fred Case, proudly says: “We defy you to keep still even for a few seconds when this energetic, toe-tapping joyous sound starts up.”

 

 

 


 

 

Aug. 9: The Valerie Gillespie Trio

Saxophonist/vocalist Valerie Gillepsie and her trio  will perform at  the Space Coast Jazz Society concert at 2 PM Sunday Aug. 9  in the Cocoa Beach Country Club. Drummer Joe Renda and keyboardist Rick Steuart round out the trio.

This will be an encore gig for the trio, which was very well received when it performed for the Jazz Society 18 months ago.

Music charge is  $7 for SCJS members and $10 for nonmembers. Students under 19 are free. Tickets will be available at the door.

    Raised in Pennsylvania, Gillespie majored in classical saxophone at  Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and earned a masters degree in jazz saxophone from the University of South Florida in Tampa.  She has played  with many of the great entertainers of our time, including; Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin, Rosemary Clooney, George Burns, Ben Vereen, Joan Rivers, Ray Charles, Jon Faddis, Steve Allen and  Anthony Newly. And, she has traveled extensively with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra in the U.S. and Japan.  She  has served on the faculty of the University of South Florida since the late 90’s  helping the saxophonists develop their skills in classical and jazz saxophone.  She can also be seen there appearing with the Faculty Jazz Ensemble and Chuck Owen’s Jazz Surge.

Gillespie’s newest CD, A Little Rough Around The Edges,  is comprised of some of the tunes most requested of the band, like "Over the Rainbow," "Mack the Knife,"  "September song" and "Straight, No Chaser". CDs will be on sale at the concert.

 


 

 

 

 

Sept. 13--Ron Teixeira B-3 Organ Trio

Ron Teixeira, shown above, will perform on the Hammond B-3 organ at the Sept. 13 SCJS concert in the Cocoa Beach Country Club. His trio will include drummer Stan Soloko and guitarist/bassist Rich Walker. This will be the third SCJS appearance by Teixeira on the B-3. He packed the house in the previous appearances in July of 2006 and August of 2005. Walker was featured along with jazz legend Ira Sullivan at the annual SCJS Benefit in 2006.

 

Music charge for the Sept. 13 concert is  $7 for SCJS members and $10 for nonmembers. Students under 19 are free. Tickets will be available at the door.

 


 

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