The Potomac River Jazz Club

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The Potomac River Jazz Club is a non-profit society formed in 1971 to preserve and promote the playing and appreciation of traditional jazz, a unique American art form. This is the music that originated among black musicians in New Orleans around the turn of the century and migrated up the Mississippi River. It encompasses jazz in this classic form as well as its derivations in Chicago and San Francisco styles plus blues and ragtime music. Our musical heroes are Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, the West Coast revival stars including Lu Watters, Turk Murphy and Bob Scobey and all the other early jazz luminaries. Our membership is concentrated in the Washington DC-Baltimore metropolitan area, but we have members across the U.S. and in Canada. We invite all jazz lovers to join us in the fun, friendships and satisfaction this music brings. We present frequent concert-dances that feature jazz bands, both local and out of town, for our members and the general public. We also publish a highly acclaimed 12-page monthly newsletter, Tailgate Ramblings, to publicize musical events in the local area and report other matters of interest to our members. We sponsor a widely admired and highly successful youth learning program which brings talented young musicians between the ages of 15 and 26 under the guidance of an experienced jazz educator to provide them with a grounding in the fundamentals of jazz, as well as specialized training in the traditional New Orleans styles and their offshoots. They rehearse and perform as the Capital Focus Jazz Band. Check its web page at http://www.prjc.org/cfjb/ for more information.