Don Neely Trio - Thursday, February 27th, 7:30-10:00pm

Don Neely and the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra and their smaller ensembles of the San Francisco Bay Area Such as the Don Neely Trio affectionately and authentically recapture the excitement, charm, and romance of the celebrated music originating from the 1920s and 1930s - often known as the Jazz Age and early Swing Era. 

The Roaring Twenties, the decade when George Gershwin was the toast of New York for his famous jazz inspired piano concerto "Rhapsody in Blue," performed with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. When Fats Waller wowed the world with his pianistic genius and his iconic song "Ain't Misbehavin." When Duke Ellington starred at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and when Louis Armstrong played what came to be known as Dixieland Jazz or New Orleans Jazz with King Oliver in Chicago. The decade of the 1930s during the Great Depression was when Cole Porter wrote his unforgettable hit "I Get A Kick…