Thank You to Our Donors!
We are now campaigning to raise funds for our FREE Jazz4Kids concert, allowing kids to learn about instruments from professional musicians.
If you have a youngster or student that you’d like to expose to the delight of live big band music played by professional musicians, you’ll want to bring them to our Jazz4Kids one-hour matinee concert on March 1, 2025!
This one-hour concert features the music of Ray Charles & Quincy Jones on Jackson Street.
SRJO is joined by special guests Stephen Newby (baritone voice) and Joe Doria (Hammond B-3 organ), to celebrate the swinging legacy of Ray Charles and Quincy Jones, including a salute to the groundbreaking jazz of the 1940s on Seattle’s Jackson Street, where Ray and Quincy both got their start.
Selections include early jazz works by both Ray and Quincy for their own big bands, plus pieces drawn from the hit (and very hip) 1961 album “Genius + Soul = Jazz,” a collaboration between the two Seattle jazz titans who each became international music icons.
More info: www.srjo.org/education/jazz4kids
Thank you!