"America's Art Form" Concert by HSJS: Icons and Innovators at Garland County Library

From October through February, on the second Wednesday of each month, the Hot Springs Jazz Society presents a free "America's Art Form" concert (6-7:30 pm) in the Garland County Library's auditorium. Each concert highlights a specific type/era of jazz and features a special guest artist performing with the AAF jazz combo, composed of pianist Clyde Pound (Hot Springs Jazz Society Entertainment Director), bassist David Higginbotham, and percussionist Jay Payette. Guest saxophonist Dave Williams II will perform at the "Icons and Innovators" concert on 10 December 2014. The concert will highlight jazz by such artists as Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman. ...

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From October through February, on the second Wednesday of each month, the Hot Springs Jazz Society presents a free "America's Art Form" concert (6-7:30 pm) in the Garland County Library's auditorium. Each concert highlights a specific type/era of jazz and features a special guest artist performing with the AAF jazz combo, composed of pianist Clyde Pound (Hot Springs Jazz Society Entertainment Director), bassist David Higginbotham, and percussionist Jay Payette. Guest saxophonist Dave Williams II will perform at the "Icons and Innovators" concert on 10 December 2014. The concert will highlight jazz by such artists as Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman.

"America's Art Form" concerts for 2014-2015 highlight "The Traditional Music of NOLA" (8 October), "Theme Songs of the Big Band Era" (12 November), "Icons and Innovators" (10 December), "Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits" (14 January), and "Poetry in Jazz" (11 February). The "America's Art Form" series is supported in part by the Arkansas Arts Council (Department of Arkansas Heritage) and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Founded in 1991, the Hot Springs Jazz Society (www.hsjazzsociety.org) is a 501c3 nonprofit. Questions should be addressed to HSJS Executive Director Gretchen Taylor (501.627.2425 / [email protected] / Hot Springs Jazz Society, P. O. Box 22662, Hot Springs, AR 71903-2662).

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