Monroeville Jazz Festival this weekend
The sixth annual Monroeville Jazz Festival will run from 5 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday in the north parking area outside the Boyce Park wave pool.
The free event will feature the Joyce Breach quartet with David Budway on piano, the Maureen Budway quartet and the Adam Brock quartet.
Refreshments will be available. Attendees can bring picnic baskets.
year's national headliner. She sings material from the "classic American songbook," including songs by Berlin, Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Arlen and Sondheim. She will be joined by Pittsburgh pianist Budway, bassist Paul Thompson and drummer Reid Hoyson.
Local song stylist Budway sings both traditional and jazz standards. She has performed in Duke Ellington's Jazz Mass with Louis Bellson, at Frick Art and Historical Society with Jeff "Train" Watts, in Mass of Hope in the Jazz Idiom with Joe Negri, and with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and Westmoreland Symphony.
She recently performed with Budway, her brother, in Living Legends Jazz Series sponsored by Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and is a member of the Duquesne University faculty. Joining her for the event will be Max Leake on piano, Tony DePaolis on bass and Tom Wendt on drums.
Brock is a young jazz singer who appreciates the songs and styles made popular by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme and Carmen McRae. He is a huge fan of scat singing, a lost art for many singers today.
With a degree in theatre, he performs at cabarets and with local jazz groups. Accompanying him at the festival will be John D'Amico on piano, Virgil Walter on bass and Lenny Rogers on drums.
For more information, including links to performers' sites, musical selections and directions to the park, visit www.monroevillejazz.org or call 412-373-4332.
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