Charleston Jazz Jam Rescheduled for December 9

December 4, 2012

December 9 from 5 – 9 pm

CHARLESTON, SC – Charleston Jazz Club announcesthe Third Annual Charleston Jazz Jam has been rescheduled. The outdoorevent was cancelled due to inclement weather , November 18. The Jam hasmoved indoors and its new time is Sunday December 9, 2012 from 5 – 9 pmat Pal Joeys, located at 1035 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, Mt Pleasant SC 29464.

Charleston Jazz Club founder, Dennis Fassuliotis, is pleased to announce that “the show WILL go on! We are so pleased to have the communitysupport this great event by stepping up to the plate to help out evenwhen Mother Nature became a little less cooperative than in the past.”

The Third Annual Charleston Jazz Jam –A Celebration of Jazz will bringtogether some of the best jazz artists Charleston has to offer. Therescheduled event includes Brazilian guitarist, Duda Lucena, Vocalists,Lyndsey Goodman Moynihan, Joe Clarke, Big George Collier and StarrAcheson, clarinetist, Steve Simon, local jazz legends like Oscar Riversand saxophonist George Kenney, Bassists Jamie Harris and Chuck King,rhythm guitarist Joe Wilson, percussionist Muni Natarajan and Max Moore, local blues man Smoky Weiner and more.

Pictured: Big George Collier (left) “brings it all home” at last year’s SecondAnnual Charleston Jazz Jam at Bowen’s Island with George Kenny (sax),Steve Simon (clarinet), and Smoky Weiner (Harmonica) anxiouslyanticipating his downbeat.

In the true spirit of a jazz jam, we are also pleased to announce theaddition of two young talents. Making their debut at the Charleston Jazz Jam will be Tyler Sims and Olivia Pharis, both Juniors at the School of the Arts who have been studying piano with Joe Clarke since sixthgrade.

“Bringing these up and coming young artists in to play with the established musicians is one of our goals,” says Fassuliotis. 

Pal Joeys will be providing a complimentary Italian buffet for part of theevening and a cash bar throughout the event.  A $10.00 donation, at thedoor, will benefit the Charleston Jazz Club.
 

About The Charleston Jazz Club
The Charleston Jazz Club (www.facebook.com/chasjazzclub) was founded in 2009 by local businessman Dennis Fassuliotis, to promote jazz in the Charleston area and bring musicians and jazz enthusiaststogether for the first time using a social networking site and considers itself the only virtue jazz club in the world. “Where we go, the musicfollows,” says Fassuliotis.