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Thanks for visiting!
 The
Potomac River Jazz Club is a nonprofit society whose purpose is to
preserve, encourage and promote the playing and appreciation of
traditional jazz. On our Web site you’ll find information about trad
jazz happenings in the Washington-Baltimore area, about our
organization, about our affiliated jazz bands, about jazz history, and
about many other items of interest to jazz fans. And be sure to check out what PRJC is doing to encourage young
musicians to play traditional jazz with the Capital Focus
Youth Jazz Band. Please look around the
site, and if you want to make a comment or a suggestion, ask a question
or just say “Hi,” please send us an e-mail.
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Upcoming Jazz Events
The mighty Federal Jazz Commission band takes the stage along with a special guest artist at the PRJC special event May 24 at the Rockville Elks Lodge. New Orleans stride jazz pianist John Royen will join the band for this event which starts at 8 p.m. Royen has played with the Feds at various festivals and concerts and it’s a dream match-up. Don't miss it! More information.
Looking for something
else? PRJC’s “All That Jazz This Month”
is a comprehensive listing of live traditional jazz and ragtime music
happenings in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area.
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Buck Creek to Disband in January 2009
Jim Ritter and Frank Mesich, co-leaders of the nationally acclaimed and locally revered Buck Creek Jazz Band, have announced the dissolution of the band in mid-January, 2009. The announcement from the band follows.
After 31 years of making music and having fun together, we’ve decided that it’s time to close this chapter of our lives and retire as the Buck Creek Jazz Band. It has been a wonderful experience for all of us and wouldn’t have been possible without the friendship and support of the festival organizers, musicians and especially those of you who became loyal fans.
During 2008 we’ll be playing the festivals in Port Angeles, Chattanooga, Sacramento and Olympia; JazzSea Alaska cruise in July; the festivals in Orange County, Kalispell, and San Diego. Our last performance will be on next January’s Jazz Sea Cruise to the Caribbean.
We will really miss all of you, our friends and fans, and hope to thank you personally at one of more of these events - particularly the January cruise where we can all ‘sail away with the Buck Creek Jazz Band.’
Jim Ritter, Frank Mesich and the Band.
Read an appreciation by Don Farwell, past president of PRJC and former editor of "Tailgate Ramblings" on the
Tailgate Ramblings Page.
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Blob’s Park Closes After 70 Years
Rumors that Blob’s Park, the German beer garden in Jessup, MD, and home of the annual PRJC Picnic, will close at the end of 2007.
More information.
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PRJC Picnic Available on DVD
If
you missed this year’s PRJC Picnic at Blob’s Park on Sept. 15, or if you were there and particularly enjoyed it, you will want to order a three-DVD set of the picnic music being produced by Ron Israel, a professional videographer and longtime jazz fan. The set contains the full performances of all six picnic bands (Fallstaff 5 + 2, Federal Jazz Commission, Big Bertha’s Rhythm Kings, Hal’s Bayou Jazz Band, WCM Traditional Jazz Band and Jim Ritter’s New liberation Jazz Band).
Ron expects to start filling orders in early October. These DVDs are bound to become collector’s items, not only for the great music, but because it is likely that 2007 will be the final year for the PRJC picnic, at least at Blob’s Park. It appears the property will be sold for development in the next few months. The DVD set is a real bargain at $15 (plus $3 postage and handling). If sufficient copies are sold, PRJC will receive a portion of each sale.
To order, make out a check for $18 for each set, payable to “Behind the Scenes,” and mail to Ron at 7918 31st Street, Baltimore, MD 21237. For more information contact Ron at
potchki@verizon.net or 410-866-6951.
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E-Mail Service With Jazz News of Interest
The
Potomac River Jazz Club offers an e-mail information service. The Club will e-mail
a periodic
“Hot Jazz Flashes” containing
information we think may be of immediate interest to members We don’t plan to send Flashes
about events that have been advertised well in advance, but will do so if
there are changes to the information.
If you would like to be added to our e-mail list, send an e-mail to
prjcweb@prjc.org,
put “PRJC Hot Jazz Flashes” in the subject line and the word “subscribe” in the text along with your
name and mailing address.
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Advertise in the Tailgate Ramblings
You can now place
a jazz-related advertisement in the PRJC’s 12-page newsletter and pay for it online using your credit
card and the PayPal system. “Tailgate Ramblings” is read by more than 800 PRJC members in the
Washington-Baltimore area when it is delivered to their homes every month.
Get details.
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Potomac River Jazz Club
3608 35th Street NW
Washington, DC 20016-3116 |
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