Jazz Lives Here.

Since 1979, the Toledo Jazz Orchestra has worked with dozens of industry legends, including Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, Clark Terry and Zoot Sims. The group also performs the works of the major big bands from the past eight decades along with arrangements commissioned specifically for the orchestra. The Toledo Jazz Orchestra has two albums to its credit titled “Groovin’” and “Out of Nowhere.”

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The Toledo Jazz Orchestra's Hartmann Bogan Jazz Series returns for a third season featuring five concerts at The Valentine Theatre and The Peristyle. The series opener will feature the music of Stan Kenton conducted by Alain Trudel. Guest conductor Andrew Bishop and vocalist and Toledo native April Varner return for A Very Jazzy Christmas at the Peristyle. Vocalist Kim Buehler joins TJO to honor her mentor and Toledo jazz legend Jon Hendricks, and Alain Trudel conducts Porgy and Bess – The Miles Davis Album, a full recreation of the legendary Miles Davis/Gil Evans concept album from 1959. The Hartmann Bogan Jazz Series concludes with GRAMMY-award winning guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli who has been hailed by the Boston Globe for "reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz."

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