Junius Courtney Big Band featuring Denise Perier

December 21, 2009

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“With a treasure trove of vivid, well-crafted arrangements and a veteran cast of players who know how to tell a rousing story in eight bars, the Junius Courtney Big Band is an invaluable Bay Area institution...Look out!" - Andy Gilbert, Jazz Journalist

“Swingin’ Holidays: The Yule and The Cool,” is  a special holiday concert featuring the Junius Courtney Big Band with Denise Perrier that will light up YOSHI’s Oakland for a jazz celebration of the longest night of the year.  The veteran Courtney Band, hailed by critics as “an invaluable Bay Area institution,” returns to Yoshi’s after their sold-out debut last June. Toasting up the bandstand on the Winter Solstice, the band peppers up the Yuletide with selections from the Ellington-Strayhorn “Nutcracker,” interspersed with a plethora of cool tunes and blues from the band’s exceptional book. “With a treasure trove of vivid, well-crafted arrangements and a veteran cast of players who know how to tell a rousing story in eight bars,” according to journalist Andy Gilbert, the band will deliver a bag of holiday presents designed to make this season one of the merriest.

The Junius Courtney Big Band delivers the power and subtlety of authentic swing. Led by drummer Nat Courtney, son of the late bandleader and trumpet player Junius Courtney, and under the musical direction of George “Jazzbeaux” Spencer, the Junius Courtney Big Band thrives via a combination of exciting jazz charts and impressive jazz chops. With internationally-acclaimed recording artist Denise Perrier out front on vocals, the Junius Courtney Big Band redefines the classics and presents originals as new as tomorrow morning. Its twenty-piece strength and forty-plus-years lifetime bring high-definition to the bandstand. As audiences have found, the Junius Courtney Big Band lifts off in live performance to delirious realms of swing.

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