Jazz Legacy Project: Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite
Tuesday, December 03, 2024 from 07:00pm to 10:30pm
Eddie Owen Presents at Red Clay Theatre
Red Clay Music Foundry
3116 Main Street
$25
What is the Jazz Legacy Project?
Created in 2015 after an epiphany Justin Varnes had while teaching Jazz History at Georgia State University, the JLP has an ongoing residency at the Velvet Note jazz club in Atlanta, where they have been selling out their performances for 6 years and counting. Ditching a traditional textbook in favor of playing records and telling stories about the artists to college kids who knew little or nothing about jazz proved to be a big success. It turned out that performing the artist's music and telling their stories in between proved to be an even bigger success.