The Jack Schantz Jazz Unit featuring Barbara Rosene Reimagining the music of Jerome Kern, Richard Rogers, Harold Arlen, and Johnny Mercer, from the Great American Songbook. With brand new arrangements by Jack Schantz and featuring some of NE Ohios finest jazz musicians. Engaging and informative, the latest addition of the Jack Schantz unit is a must-see experience. Jack Schantz Jack was artistic director of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra from 1994 to 2009. From 1999 to 2020 he served as Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Akron. In the 1980s Jack performed national and international tours as jazz trumpet soloist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Artie Shaw Orchestra, and the Woody Herman Thundering Herd...
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The Jack Schantz Jazz Unit featuring Barbara Rosene Reimagining the music of Jerome Kern, Richard Rogers, Harold Arlen, and Johnny Mercer, from the Great American Songbook. With brand new arrangements by Jack Schantz and featuring some of NE Ohios finest jazz musicians. Engaging and informative, the latest addition of the Jack Schantz unit is a must-see experience. Jack Schantz Jack was artistic director of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra from 1994 to 2009. From 1999 to 2020 he served as Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Akron. In the 1980s Jack performed national and international tours as jazz trumpet soloist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Artie Shaw Orchestra, and the Woody Herman Thundering Herd. After coming off the road he worked as a free-lance musician, playing in the pit orchestras for many shows at Playhouse Square, including Miss Saigon, Showboat, City of Angles, Man of LaMancha, Annie Get Your Gun, Guys and Dolls, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Anything Goes, The Sound of Music, The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone, Hair, and Porgy and Bess. He also has performed in concerts with artists such as Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Cleo Laine, Jack Jones, Nancy Wilson and Diane Schuur. He has been a member of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the Blossom Festival Orchestra, and the Blossom Festival Band. He led the Jack Schantz Jazz Unit in the 90s, and recorded the CD Choices with that group. He has also recorded with Oscar Peterson (The Christmas Album), and the Grammy Award winning Turned To Blue with Nancy Wilson. Other recordings include The Way of the Sly Man with Dave Morgan, Come Right In with Phil Woods, Speechless and I Love To Tell The Story with his own quartet. Barbara RoseneOhio-born and New York based Barbara Rosene, has built an unequalled reputation for interpreting classic compositions, from all eras of Jazz, performing the music with not only a full understanding and love of the original time period but with the rare ability to make the material sound fresh and emotionally relevant today. Barbara has toured with The Harry James Orchestra for the past 15 years, and has performed with The Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw Orchestras, as well as directing her own New Yorkers, playing such venues as: Lincoln Centers Rose Hall, Birdland, The Iridium, Dizzys, Mezzrow, Blues Alley, and The Montreal Jazz Festival. Featured on NPR programs Jazz Inspired, with Judy Carmichael, and Hot Jazz Saturday Night. with Rob Bamberger, she is the recipient of a Backstage -Bistro Award, and is included in Scott Yanows book, Great Jazz Singers. Barbaras studio albums include Deep Night, with Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, On The Brink, with Wyclife Gordon, Howard Alden and Randy Sandke, and a Grammy nominated collection of -1920s/30s tunes - Nice and Naughty with her own New Yorkers.
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