Naples Jazz Orchestra With Byron Stripling at Riverview Performing Arts Center

This concert is part of the 36th Annual Sarasota Jazz Festival and features one of the finest big bands on Florida's Gulf Coast, the Naples Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Bob Stone. Performing with the band is the renowned trumpeter Byron Stripling.The Naples Jazz Orchestra is a big band in the tradition of the legendary bands of the past, such as, Basie, Ellington, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich and the like. The band performs music of the greatest composers, arrangers and bands in jazz history and is comprised of some of the finest jazz musicians in Florida.
Byron Stripling…an extroverted performer who brings the audience into his music...

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This concert is part of the 36th Annual Sarasota Jazz Festival and features one of the finest big bands on Florida's Gulf Coast, the Naples Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Bob Stone. Performing with the band is the renowned trumpeter Byron Stripling.The Naples Jazz Orchestra is a big band in the tradition of the legendary bands of the past, such as, Basie, Ellington, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich and the like. The band performs music of the greatest composers, arrangers and bands in jazz history and is comprised of some of the finest jazz musicians in Florida.
Byron Stripling…an extroverted performer who brings the audience into his music. The happiness that he exudes through his trumpet, his vocals, and his words is reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, yet very much his own.

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