Time: 8 p.m.

Tickets: $35

Tommy Banks


The Honourable Tommy (Thomas Benjamin) Banks has done it all.  He is a pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, TV personality, actor, producer and politician.  His big band, featuring Clarence “Big” Miller, and PJ Perry, performed at the 1978 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The double LP of that concert won the 1978 Jazz Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards. In 1983, Tommy’s quintet became the first foreign jazz group to tour China. He continued to conduct his own big band until 2003. He was made an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1991 and inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1993. In 2010, he received SOCAN’s special achievement award for his contributions to Canada’s music industry and musical heritage. Edmonton, where he continues to live, has named a street after him (Tommy Banks Way).

PJ Perry http://www.pjperry.com


PJ Perry is Canada’s finest saxophonist, whose intimate musical knowledge of the great 20th century composers, such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Duke Ellington, continues to delight audiences all over the world. He has shared the spotlight with such luminaries as Michel LeGrand, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Henry Mancini, Aretha Franklin, and Tom Jones. Recently, he was a featured soloist in the hit 2010 Broadway production of Come Fly Away, highlighting the songs of Frank Sinatra and the choreography of Twyla Tharpe.  In recognition of his contributions to Canada’s cultural fabric, PJ Perry has been awarded numerous honors, most notably an honorary doctorate of law from the University of Alberta and an honorary diploma in music from Alberta’s Grant McEwan College. PJ makes his home in New York City.
Buy tickets online at Eventbrite or at Long & McQuade Music, (323 8 St S Lethbridge) starting May 7.