OCTOBER 29, 2009 ISSUE
Jazz Society Presents Jon Metzger November 8
Jon Metzger will perform jazz on the vibraphone during the Blowing Rock Jazz Society’s Sunday, November 8, concert at the Meadowbrook Inn.
The Blowing Rock Jazz Society will present vibraphonist Jon Metzger on Sunday, November 8, at the Meadowbrook Inn in Blowing Rock at 7:00 p.m.
Metzger has performed at well-known jazz venues across the United States and has toured in Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Austria. A winner for the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant for Performance, he has played for kings and queens and heads of state while serving as a jazz ambassador to more than 20 foreign countries in the Near East, Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America.
“In my estimation, from the vibraphone players that I’ve heard through my life so far, he can run with the best of them,” said Fred Germann, president of the Blowing Rock Jazz Society.
A vibraphone is an instrument that resembles a xylophone but has metal bars and motor-driven resonators that produce a mellow sound.
A scholar of the jazz vibraphone, Metzger has published a 366-page method book on the instrument titled The Art and Language of Jazz Vibes, written numerous journal and magazine articles on the subject and given master classes and lectures across the country.
“When people say, ‘He wrote the book on that,’ he really did,” Germann said.
Performing with Metzger will be Andy Page on guitar, Rick Dilling on drums and Ron Brendle on bass.
Call the Meadowbrook Inn at 828-295-4300 for seating reservations. Reservations will be held until 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $5 for students and free for Jazz Society members.
The Jazz Society will not hold a monthly concert in December but will resume on January 10, 2010 with the “January Jam.” For more information about the concert or the Blowing Rock Jazz Society, call 423-727-0725 or click to www.brjazzsociety.com.
Want To Go?
Date: Sunday, November 8
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock
Cost: $15 general public/$5 students/free for Jazz Society members
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