Music Mondays: Jazz Jam

Jazz fans and musicians alike enjoy the variety, excitement, and spontaneity of a live jazz jam session. The April Jazz Jam Session will be hosted by multi-instrumentalist Ian Ferguson and the musicians of New Vintage Jazz.

Open to all musicians – prepare a jazz standard or two of your choice and come down to the Armadillo Ranch to sit in with professional top-notch jazz musicians! (This is NOT an open-mic, please come prepared).

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Ian Ferguson is a jazz pianist, guitarist, vocalist, and trumpet player and has released four CD’s. He performs regularly with New Vintage Jazz, Jazz Nuebe and other groups throughout the region. Ian’s experience as an educator includes Lead Music Mentor at the Colorado Springs Conservatory, and adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music.

New Vintage Jazz specializes in songs from the “Hard Bop” era of jazz (mid 50’s thru the 60’s). We do fresh versions of tunes from the great masters of the era such as Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard etc., playing serious classic jazz tunes that the listeners can relate to no matter how well versed in the jazz genre they happen to be.