Saturday, June 15: "Sweet & Hot" jazz

Tacoma Musical Playhouse

By Volcano Staff on June 9, 2013

When jazz trumpeter Lance Buller isn't holding court at Metropolitan Market's espresso area or every Friday at Maxwell's Speakeasy, he's producing jazz concerts, including a Jazz@TMP series at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. Buller has lined up another winner as the Black Swan Classic Jazz Band from Portland, Ore. and their vocalist, Marilyn Keller will fill the old Narrows Theater with music one would find in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the 1920s or F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. According to hype, "Black Swan will serve up blues, stomps, marches, ragtime and gospel. Songs will be selected from the 1890s through Tin Pan Alley through the Golden Age of song to selections recently composed by our band members."

SWEET & HOT JAZZ A LA NEW ORLEANS, 8 p.m., Tacoma Musical Playhouse, 7116 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, $25, 253.565.6867