Get ready to enjoy some wonderful music, as the South Plains College’s Jazz Band concert is just around the corner. The Fine Arts Department presents the SPC Jazz Band in their first performance for the fall semester. The band is under the instructor of Dr. Bruce Keeling, professor of music.

The performance will take place in the SPC Theatre on Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the event, and admission is free.

The Jazz Band will be performing six songs, a mixture of jazz standards, swing, shuffle, featuring the music of George and Ira Gershwin.

The Jazz Band will begin their concert with a medium swing chart, “S’ Wonderful,” composed by George and Ira Gershwin and performed by Lynda Reid, associate professor of music, and Dustin Stegal from Crosbyton, both playing trumpets. They also will perform another medium swing chart titled “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’” from the Broadway musical “Porgy and Bess” by George and Ira Gershwin, featuring Steven Suniga from Seagraves playing the tenor sax. A shuffle-funk synthesis by the Count Basie Swing Band, “Home Basie”, by Bob Mintzer, will highlight Suniga on tenor sax Marcus Bowers on guitar.

The fourth song will be a swing chart called “But Not For Me”, composed by George and Ira Gershwin featuring Suniga on tenor sax and Ruth Cunningham from New Deal on trombone. Next will be “God Bless the Child”, by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr., a ballad made famous by the great jazz vocalist, Billie Holiday and remade by Blood, Sweat, and Tears. This chart will be performed Reid on alto sax. The sixth song will be “ Boogie Stop Shuffle” by Charles Mingus. It features Drew McClure on bass, Daniel Colina from Littlefield on trumpet, Erica Weemes from Levelland on trombone, and Charles Brown from White Deer on guitar.

The Jazz Band concert will also feature special guest artists Brent and Emily Wheeler, jazz guitar duo from the SPC faculty.

“Come enjoy a special evening of jazz music and listen to the great American art form,” Keeling said.