Truth In Jazz Big Band Performs Friday
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Staff Report-
Along with Becker, other local Warsaw musicians in the band are Ben Essick, saxophone, and Brian Frederick, trumpet.
Truth in Jazz is an 18-piece big band formed in 1998 by Truth Publisher David Ogle with help of Steve Pettit and under the direction of Gay Burton.
Now 12 years later, the band is led by Goshen Band Director (retired) Dave Plank. Current band members have a lot of professional experience and continue to wow their audiences with the "big band sound".
The 18-piece band has a great repertoire of music and performs in the style of the swing bands like Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and the band has the "chops" to tackle the great modern day jazz arrangements like Gordon Goodwin's "Big Phat" band.
The band's form is based on what has become the standard of big band instrumentation that developed by Count Basie: four trumpets, four trombones, five saxes, bass, piano, guitar and drums. TiJ continues in that tradition and adds new and fresh arrangements based on big band jazz standards.[[In-content Ad]]The band also has a female vocalist, Kelli Armantrout, Elkhart, who sings some of the standard vocal hits of the big band era.
The band performs annually at the Elkhart Jazz Festival, community park concerts, wedding receptions, Elkhart Historical Museum, Elcona Country Club, Elkhart County Fair, Elkhart Red Cross Fundraiser and Goshen First Fridays.
The group is a non-profit, big band sponsored by Goshen Health System seeking to share their love for jazz with surrounding communities.
Along with Becker, other local Warsaw musicians in the band are Ben Essick, saxophone, and Brian Frederick, trumpet.
Truth in Jazz is an 18-piece big band formed in 1998 by Truth Publisher David Ogle with help of Steve Pettit and under the direction of Gay Burton.
Now 12 years later, the band is led by Goshen Band Director (retired) Dave Plank. Current band members have a lot of professional experience and continue to wow their audiences with the "big band sound".
The 18-piece band has a great repertoire of music and performs in the style of the swing bands like Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and the band has the "chops" to tackle the great modern day jazz arrangements like Gordon Goodwin's "Big Phat" band.
The band's form is based on what has become the standard of big band instrumentation that developed by Count Basie: four trumpets, four trombones, five saxes, bass, piano, guitar and drums. TiJ continues in that tradition and adds new and fresh arrangements based on big band jazz standards.[[In-content Ad]]The band also has a female vocalist, Kelli Armantrout, Elkhart, who sings some of the standard vocal hits of the big band era.
The band performs annually at the Elkhart Jazz Festival, community park concerts, wedding receptions, Elkhart Historical Museum, Elcona Country Club, Elkhart County Fair, Elkhart Red Cross Fundraiser and Goshen First Fridays.
The group is a non-profit, big band sponsored by Goshen Health System seeking to share their love for jazz with surrounding communities.
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