The Rio Grande Jazz Society

Do you like hot jazz* and swing music^?

Listening to it? Dancing to it? Supporting it? Playing it?

You can do it all at the Rio Grande Jazz Society!

May 20: The Bobby Shew Quartet

Featuring renowned trumpeter Bobby Shew

Plus 3 of the best musicians in New Mexico:

• Jim Ahrend, piano
• Cal Haines, drums
• Michael Glynn, bass

The quartet will play from 2:30 to 3:30 or so, preceded and followed by jam sessions

On the third Sunday of each month (except March 25, 2012), from 1:30 to 5 PM, the bandstand and the dance floor at the Edelweiss German-American Club (4821 Menaul Blvd. NE, Albuquerque) come alive as jazz jammers and dancers congregate to have an afternoon of fun and good music.

The dates for 2012

• January 15
• February 19
• March 25
• April 15
• May 20
• June 14
• July 15
• August 19
• September 16
• October 14 (Please note: this has been changed from October 21)
• November 18
• December 16

*Hot jazz, as distinct from cool jazz or bebop, is jazz in the style of Jelly Roll Morton, Spencer Williams, Bix Beiderbeck, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, the Dorsey brothers, Lu Watters and Turk Murphy, Benny Goodman, and other great musicians of the early to mid 20th century.

^Swing music, a descendant of hot jazz, is also a largely improvised style of dance music featuring jazz standards of the World War II era and later.