Cool Jazz for a Hot Summer Night with the CJRO Sextet

Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra presents

Cool Jazz for a Hot Summer Night with the CJRO Sextet

Featuring Marion Powers on vocals

June 9, 2023, at 7:30pm / Parsons Theatre in Northglenn

The CJRO Sextet will feature the music of Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, and other iconic West Coast Jazz musicians of the time. The concert will be performed at the Parsons Theatre 1 E. Memorial Parkway Northglenn, CO 80233 on Friday, June 9, at 7:30pm. Tickets are $22 - $25 and available at https://www.coloradojazz.org/concerts or by calling the Parsons Theatre Box Office at 303-450-8888.

In the period following the end of WWII, jazz as an independent genre of music went through intense transformations. West Coast Jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. The West Coast Jazz cool school was more relaxed, melodic, and generally appealing to a broader audience than its East Coast counterpart. It was easily accessible to the public and received immense airplay on California radio stations and in clubs as the sound spread across the country.

The Sextet is led by CJRO Artistic Director Drew Zaremba (Saxophone). He is joined by Remy LeBoeuf (Saxophone), Shawn Williams (Trumpet), Eric Gunnison (Keyboards), Gonzalo Teppa (Bass), Dru Heller (Drums) and Marion Powers on vocals.

Founded in 2012 by bandleader, Art Bouton, with a mission to perform the best music with the best musicians, the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra does just that and more. Exciting world-renowned guest artists and many of the finest regional musicians perform anything from rollicking big band classics to contemporary large and small ensemble jazz to enthusiastic concert goers across Colorado. Audiences at the Arvada Center, PACE Center in Parker, Lakewood Cultural Center, Lone Tree Arts Center, Parsons Theatre in Northglenn and beyond have heard the CJRO perform music from Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Stevie Wonder, and Buddy Rich as well as original arrangements by CJRO composers and other artists. For more information including upcoming concerts, go to Coloradojazz.org

Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra

Cool Jazz for a Hot Summer Night with the CJRO Sextet

Featuring Marion Powers on vocals

Friday, June 9, 2023, at 7:30pm

The Parsons Theatre

1 E. Memorial Parkway Northglenn, CO 80233

Tickets $22- $25

Purchase at https://www.coloradojazz.org/concerts 

or call the Parsons Theatre Box Office 303-450-8888

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