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Exploring Music: The Big Band Experience – Part II

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 @ 1:00 pmTuesday, October 31, 2023 @ 2:15 pm

Join composer/pianist Clint Edwards for an interesting and insightful jazzy-journey through the Big Band era.

Exploring Music: The Big Band Experience – Part II

Three Tuesdays, October 17, 24 & 31

1-2:15pm (PT), 2-3:15pm (MT), 3-4:15pm (CT), 4-5:15pm (ET)

on Zoom

Join composer/pianist Clint Edwards for an interesting and insightful jazzy-journey through the Big Band era. Explore the great bands, legendary band leaders, and virtuosic musicians, with stories, musical analysis, and plentiful performance clips from the era.

In Part-II, continue our exploration of the Big Band genre, with a focus on minority contributors (women and Latin Big Band masters), closing out with one of the greatest bands of the era – The Tommy Dorsey Band with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers.

Taking Part-I is NOT a prerequisite in order to take Part II of this series.

Save! Get “Early Bird” ticket prices; register before Oct 15th!

About Clint Edwards

Clint Edwards is a composer, arranger, and pianist. His compositions and arrangements have been performed around the world, including NYC’s Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, WQXR, Joe’s Pub, The Green Room 42, and The Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference, as well as in concert venues throughout England, Holland, Australia, Germany, South Korea, and Poland. He is the winner of the 2019 Broadway World Award for “Best Independent Album Release.” As a pianist, he regularly gives more than 350 performances a year in the NYC metropolitan area.

Ticket & Notes:

“Early Bird” Series Ticket: $37.50 (re: $12.50 per class). Available until 48-hours before the 1st discussion.

Regular Series Ticket: $45 (re: $15 per class). Available until the start of the last discussion.

Tickets: All tickets are 1) are per device, not per person, on Zoom, and 2) are non-refundable & non-exchangeable. Single tickets are not available for this series.

The Fine Print:

Fortunately, we’ve had very few issues, but just to be clear…

Your Zoom “Event Link”: The Zoom event link will be emailed to all registrants automatically upon registration and then again 2-hours prior to each class. To help it land in your “inbox,” before registering, please add the following emails to your contacts:

  • JCC Alliance — alliance@marinjcc.org
  • James Sokol — jsokol@marinjcc.org

Registrants are requested to make sure the email w/link has arrived by the evening of Oct 15th. If the email does not arrive, please see “Troubleshooting” below.

Have a Comcast email? Please refer to this guide: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/spam-filters-and-email-blocking-new-experience.

Troubleshooting: We will do our best to remedy any issues. Registrants who have NOT received the email w/link are asked to check their email “junk” and “spam” folders. If found, please move the email to your inbox. If the email/link is still not there, please contact James (see below) immediately.

Late Troubleshooting: We will try our best – but cannot guarantee – help with Zoom links to guests contacting James less than 15-minutes prior to the event.

Live Only: In agreement with our guides, artists, instructors, special guests, etc., events are not recorded. Make-up sessions are unavailable. Credit/refund is not given for missed events.

Liability: While we will do our best to remedy any issues, The Osher Marin JCC & its Program Partners cannot be held responsible for 1) issues related to Eventbrite or Zoom, 2) ticket buyers not following the instructions above, nor 3) packing, shipping, or deliver services of food/beverages not received in time for tasting events.

Don’t ya just hate “the fine print?!!”

Questions? Email James at jsokol@marinjcc.org.

Exploring Music is created by the Osher Marin JCC (San Rafael, CA) and offered by the National JCC Adult & Senior Alliance. See below for a full list of Alliance Partners.

ALL ARE WELCOME to join in our activities! JCC members, non-members, those who live near or far, people of all backgrounds, faiths, ethnicities, hair styles, fashion choices, chocolate preferences, etc. “The more the merrier!”

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