For their 2019-20 season, Jesse Cloninger and the Emerald City Jazz Kings present another great year of historic jazz and popular music.They start off the season with GET HAPPY, a survey of Songbook gems from the Golden Age of Musical Comedy, 1924-34. In December they present an all-new Christmas show, A HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS. In February they explore the songs and style of Ella Fitzgerald in IT'S ALL RIGHT WITH ME . And they close the season in May with DIGA DIGA DOO, a tribute to lyricist Dorothy Fields.
Buy a season package [ HERE ] or purchase individual concert tickets by selecting the concert you want to attend from the list at right.
The Emerald City Jazz Kings is the resident jazz & classic American Songbook ensemble of The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts. Under the baton of music director Jesse Cloninger, the Jazz Kings produce 4 original concerts each year on various themes pertinent to the historic popular music and jazz of the 1920s through ‘50s, with performances in Eugene, Roseburg and Corvallis.