Fri Oct 24
Legendary NE Ohio Trumpeter leads All-Star Quartet w/Special Guest Vocalist Live @ Irishtown Bend Taproom!
Featuring:
Jack Schantz-Trumpet and Leader (From the CJO & Jazz Unit)
Rock Wehrmann-Piano,
Tim Powell-Acoustic Bass
Mark Gondor-Drums
and Special Guest
Barbara Rosene-Vocals (From the Harry James Orchestra)
@ Irishtown Bend Taproom at Market Garden Brewery
1849 W. 24th St. (under the giant BEER sign)
Immediately behind the West Side Market
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
(216) 373-0700
Now with dinner service delivered from the Market Garden Brewery!!
Jack Schantz 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 1980’s 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. 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 has also recorded with Oscar Peterson (The Christmas Album), and the Grammy Award winning Turned To Blue with Nancy Wilson.
While serving as artistic director of the CJO, he worked with arranger/composers Billy Byers, Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Finegan. Bill Holman, Slide Hampton, Gerald Wilson, Sammy Nestico, Bob Florence, Frank Foster, Maria Schnieder, and Rob McConnell. CJO recordings under his leadership are Traditions, Swingin ’Together with Sammy Nestico, and The Surprise of Being with Joe Lovano.
Ohio 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 Center's Rose Hall, Birdland, The Iridium, Dizzy’s, 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 Yanow’s book, “Great Jazz Singers.”
Barbara's 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.