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Az Swing Kings Orchestra - The Great American Songbook And All That Jazz at Theater Works

Courtesy of Lorene Ely | Posted on November 19, 2016

Where

Theater Works
8355 West Peoria Ave
Peoria, AZ
Map
623-815-7930

When

Tue, November 22, 2016
5:00 pm

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Musicians

About

5pm – 6pm. The AZ Swing Kings Orchestra is a Valley favorite and consists of 18 instrumentalists and a vocalist. The orchestra is under the direction of Lenny King - former creator and director of the Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra - and all the musicians are experienced professional performers playing original arrangements made famous by the such great bands as: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson and many others. The featured vocalist is Joni King. The Great American Songbook is a term used to describe the music from the era of the most important and influential American popular songs of the 20th century...

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