Gerri DiMaggio Quintet, Hanah Jon Taylor Ensemble
Aug 4, 2021 5:30 PM to
8:00 PM
July 16, 2021
Hanah Jon Taylor
Event organizers have had to be both flexible and improvisatory to react to changing public health needs due to COVID-19. One example: Jazz at Five moved to Fitchburg to allow for more social distancing room. An improvisatory response followed by Jazz at Five co-founder and longtime director Cathy Sullivan, who quickly pulled together a new concert series for the downtown area: Jazz on State. The opening concert on Aug. 4 will feature music by the Gerri DiMaggio Quintet and Hanah Jon Taylor Ensemble. Attendees are encouraged to visit area restaurants, so there will be no on-site food or beverage sales. Concerts continue on the following two Wednesdays, with Tony Castañeda Latin Jazz Band on Aug. 11 and Leo Sidran and special guests on Aug. 18.
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Madison Jazz Society is Set to Dissolve Close Close Close
The non-profit Madison Jazz Society was created in 1984 with the mission to preserve and promote traditional jazz. That’s jazz from early rag-time and up to the 1950s.
In March, the board of directors voted unanimously to dissolve the organization, leaving one less outlet for jazz in Madison. Many members of the jazz community found out in a recent newsletter.
Long-time president Lori Marty Schmitz points to membership as a main reason for the decision. “We’re losing members by attrition–by attrition i mean dying off, and their not being replaced,” explains Marty Schmitz. “Many of members are, as my doctor a while ago, upper middle age and don’t have the energy or physical capacity to do what needs to be done to keep the organization going.”