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Black History Month
Mississippi
Alberta
North Portland
Harlem’s
Hottest
Jazz Club
‘Return to the Cotton
Club’ on symphony stage
A night of great music, song and dance from
Harlem’s hottest jazz club! Dancers join Jeff Tyzik
and trumpeter Byron Stripling for the red-hot
tunes of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie
Holiday, Cab Calloway and more when “Return to
the Cotton Club” plays the Oregon Symphony on
Saturday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb.
28 at 3 p.m.
The performances will be the premiere of a
newly re-vamped show and it’s guaranteed to heat
up a very wet, gray winter. Stripling has played
with many of jazz’s legendary musicians including
Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hamp-
ton and Dave Brubeck. He toured with the Count
Basie Orchestra and played the title character in
“Stachmo” and the lead in “From Second Avenue
to Broadway.”
Stripling’s electrifying and heartfelt tribute to
Armstrong has become America’s most popular
orchestral pops program. With his engaging rap-
port, jazzy vocals and virtuosic trumpet sounds, he
dazzles audiences wherever he goes. With his sig-
nature version of “When The Saints Go Marchin’
In” to close the show, he celebrates the spirit of
New Orleans and always leaves ‘em dancing in the
aisles!
Emmy Award-winning and Tony-nominated tap-
per Ted Louis Levy has worked with tap legends
Gregory Hines and has appeared on Broadway in
“Jelly’s Last Jam.” He also helped choreograph
the groundbreaking “Bring in ‘Da Noise! Bring in
‘Da Funk!”
Byron Stripling’s electrifying and
heartfelt tribute to Louis Armstrong,
‘Return to the Cotton Club,’ comes to
the Oregon Symphony stage on Satur-
day, Feb. 27 and Sunday, Feb. 28.
February 24, 2016
Vancouver
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