1500 N Warner St
Tacoma, WA 98416
USA
100 years later, the School of Music at University of Puget Sound is celebrating that seminal moment with a Jacobsen Series concert: A Centennial Celebration of Jazz. Everyone is welcome to an evening with faculty, guest artists, and students performing some favorites by the three jazz greats. Located in Schneebeck Concert Hall on campus, a short walk northeast of the corner of N. 14th Street and Union Avenue.
The evening will feature jazz standards, including Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia,” “Salt Peanuts,” and “Manteca”; and Ella Fitzgerald’s “A-Tisket A-Tasket,” “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” and “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” among other tunes. The tribute to Thelonious Monk will include “Round Midnight”; “Blue Monk”; “Straight, No Chaser”; and “Ruby My Dear.”
