This has been a quiet year for performing arts of all kinds.
While we wait for the coast to clear and find a new performing
venue for ATJS, there are always livestream and recorded events.
There is enough jazz on YouTube to keep you listening for days.
Johnny Serrano has posted a whole set of jazz
recorded in January 2020 by Swing Shift, formerly known as La
Grosse Tete. You can find it at
https://youtu.be/9AJtkNleWx0.
If you missed the three
livestream performances fielded by our sister organization
Austin
Jazz Society, these can also be found on YouTube. Go to
YouTube and search Monks Jazz David Jellema Quartet,
Monks Jazz Texas Moaners, and Monks Jazz Nod to Pops.
All three concerts run about 90 minutes and are definitely worth a
listen.
Jazz pianist Richard Golladay has opened Ragtime Oriole at
202 Main Street in Marble Falls. It is a coffee and
wine shop as well as a traditional jazz club. Richard will
be hosting an open jam session on Saturday, January 23 from 1 to 4
pm. For those not familiar with Marble Falls, it is a scenic
Hill Country town at the intersections of US 281 and FM 1431,
about 30 miles west of Round Rock. For a closer look at
Ragtime oriole, check out its website at
https://theragtimeoriole.com/home/.
- Dave Stoddard
Donate to Project Safety Net:
http://www.austinjazzsociety.org/ProjectSafetyNet.html
Or send a check to:
Austin Jazz Society
Project Safety Net
PO Box 170141
Austin TX 78717
Your
contributions will help keep our Austin
corps of traditional jazz musicians in
Austin, able to perform for us when this
long pandemic nightmare finally ends.
Please stay safe and healthy—we need jazz
fans, too!
