Jazz Lover! Today - Jazz at the Ironwood with the Fox Big Band

🎷🎺 Get Ready to Jazz Up Your Saturday, Jazz Lover! 🎺🎷

Date: Saturday January 11 Time: 2:00
Venue: The Ironwood, 1229 9th Ave SE Reservations: (403) 269-5581

Join us on Saturday, January 11th at 2:00 PM at the Ironwood Stage for a special fundraising event to support the production of our soon-to-be-released CD, "Fox Big Band Live at the Ironwood" featuring the legendary Benny Benack III!
Get ready to swing the afternoon away to the jazzy sounds of the Fox Big Band! We'll be raising the roof irresistible rhythms, guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a pep in your step.
This is your chance to:
* Support a fantastic local musical project!
* Hear some of the best Big Band Jazz in town!
* Enjoy a delightful afternoon with a drink or a meal at the Ironwood Stage!
Cover $30 Students $17, all proceeds to CD production
Don't miss out on this swinging good time! We can't wait to see you there!

FOX BIG BAND enjoys a growing audience in Calgary, performing at the Ironwood Stage and Grill and other venues. The Band’s repertoire explores a variety of different musical styles in blues, Latin jazz, rock, funk, bebop, fusion and contemporary music, all arranged in modern big band orchestration. With 13 horns, a full rhythm section and the occasional vocalist and guest artist, the band impresses with the dynamic power of a big band—it can roar like the big band it is - or can quietly purr on a gentle ballad as well.

The band’s musicians include some of Calgary’s finest jazz musicians, featuring a lot of jazz solo work, along with some nifty ensemble playing. The band’s music ranges through well-known artists such as Pat Metheny, and Phil Collins, contemporary big bands such as Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, and great classic big bands such as Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Duke Ellington and countless others. Some recent performances have featured the music of Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, pat Metheny, Count Basie, Buddy Rich and Miles Davis.

FOX BIG BAND, now under the direction of Brandon Oberhamer, was formed in the 1980s by Doug Fox, a Calgary trumpeter and bass player and jazz arranger. Doug always enjoyed playing the music of the classic swing big bands but was also interested in composing and arranging contemporary big band music that crossed into other genres of music in blues, Latin jazz, funk, rock and other contemporary styles.