For their Tri-State Jazz Society appearance at Haddonfield United Methodist Church, 29 Warwick Road, Haddonfield, NJ on Sunday, April 15, at 2 p.m.
Richard Barne’s Blackbird Society Orchestra preserves 1920s jazz in note-for-note recreations using original stock charts and transcriptions from vintage recordings. For their Tri-State Jazz Society appearance at Haddonfield United Methodist Church, 29 Warwick Road, Haddonfield, NJ on Sunday, April 15, at 2 p.m. The 13-piece core Blackbird Society Orchestra will do an opening set, then the 22-person Paul Whiteman tribute band will perform a 7 song set in a rare re-creation of the music of legendary bandleader and “King of Jazz” Whiteman. A pioneer in bridging the gap between jazz and the European classical tradition, Whiteman commissioned Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in 1924.
