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Swing Kings bringing ‘Great American Songbook’ to Glendale
Free performance coming to Glendale Civic Center
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Who: The AZ Swing Kings Orchestra
When: 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
Where: Glendale Civic Center, 5750 W. Glenn Drive
Admission: Free
More Information: azswingkings.com
Glendale Civic Center 5750 W. Glenn Drive Glendale, AZ
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The AZ Swing Kings Orchestra is on its way to Glendale.
Along with vocalists Vito Maynes and Bridget Maynes, and piano accompanist Auggie Mendoza, the Swing Kings will perform the show “The Great American Songbook and All That Jazz” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19 at Glendale Civic Center, 5750 W. Glenn Drive.
The AZ Swing Kings Orchestra is a big band of 18 members, plus vocalists. The musicians are all professionally experienced performers of the big band swing/jazz style of music. The band is directed by Lenny King, creator and former director of the Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra.
The show is free. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
“The Great American Songbook” refers to the golden age of songwriting, when many of the most important and influential American popular songs of the 20th century became hits that turned into standards. This program will feature the music of famous composers such as Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, George Gershwin, Billy Strayhorn, and others.
Vito Maynes performs in the timeless style of Frank Sinatra, and the Big Band Era is the genre that fascinates him the most.
