The Jazz Connection Big Band: November 25
The Jazz Connection Big Band w Paul Hoffert: Friday, November 25. Doors at8:30, jazz at 9:00 $15 at the door: The JCBB is a 
well established 17-piece jazz ensemble comprised of professional and semi-professional musicians from the Hamilton/Toronto area. They perform only the best modern big band charts from the books of Goodwin, Martin, Menza, Rich, Basie, and many other great contemporary composers. Jazz Connection’s approach is high energy, uncompromising, straight ahead jazz. They combine the highest level of musicianship with great charts in an entertaining show that engages both the jazz enthusiast and the casual listener equally. Once more into that cool space of surround sound big band music. http://www.jazzconnection.ca Withrenowned jazz pianist Paul Hoffert! Paul has the soul of an artist and the mind of a scientist. By the time he was twenty-six, Mr. Hoffert was an established jazz recording artist, television performer, off-Broadway musical author, film composer, and had studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. He co-founded Lighthouse, a rock band that sold millions of records, and toured the world. Hoffert has parallel achievements in science and technology; he writes best-selling books: he has received the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest honour; he is a Fine Arts Professor at York University, and he is coming to The Pearl! www.paulhoffert.ca
