Jazz At The Ballpark "big Band Jazz Through The Decades" at Ed Smith Stadium

The Jazz Club of Sarasota and the Baltimore Orioles have teamed up to present Jazz in the Ballpark on Saturday, April 22, at 7:00 p.m. The performance will feature music of the Andrews Sisters and America’s favorite big bands from the 1940s to the present. Vocalists Michele James-Pruyn and the Swing Sisters are backed by the Sarasota Jazz Project, a lively big band that played to a standing-room-only sellout in last year’s Jazz in the Ballpark concert. James-Pruyn and her friends, Kim Kollar and Cathy Noeth, have performed “The Sounds of Harry James and the Andrews Sisters,” across the country for more than 17 years. A professional girls’ trio that specializes in great harmonies, the Swing Sisters will join the Sarasota Jazz Project Big Band to present such great classics as “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” along with other hits of the ’40s and ’50s. ...

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The Jazz Club of Sarasota and the Baltimore Orioles have teamed up to present Jazz in the Ballpark on Saturday, April 22, at 7:00 p.m. The performance will feature music of the Andrews Sisters and America’s favorite big bands from the 1940s to the present. Vocalists Michele James-Pruyn and the Swing Sisters are backed by the Sarasota Jazz Project, a lively big band that played to a standing-room-only sellout in last year’s Jazz in the Ballpark concert. James-Pruyn and her friends, Kim Kollar and Cathy Noeth, have performed “The Sounds of Harry James and the Andrews Sisters,” across the country for more than 17 years. A professional girls’ trio that specializes in great harmonies, the Swing Sisters will join the Sarasota Jazz Project Big Band to present such great classics as “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” along with other hits of the ’40s and ’50s.
In addition to songs of the Andrews Sisters, the high-energy Sarasota Jazz Project Band will present nostalgic songs made famous by Harry James, Glen Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich and others. The band will feature many of the top jazz soloists in Florida including David Pruyn on trumpet with a tribute to Harry James. Proceeds from this exciting event will be donated to the Jazz Club Scholarship Fund, which benefits local young musicians.

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