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Collective West Jazz Orchestra - directed by Fil Lorenz featuring vocalist Danny Grewen

Jazz at Pearl's
San Francisco, CA

The Collective West Jazz Orchestra is a 12-piece big band that fills up Jazz at Pearls with delightful, high-energy jazz. The repertoire includes a full range of big band styles, from Count Basie classics, to straight-ahead ballads and burners, to challenging contemporary numbers.

You might walk in on a soulful blues trombone solo that gets the crowd howling on Lonely Boy, then bop along to a spirited tenor solo during an intriguing arrangement of Monk's Think of One. You might get to hear the band's up-tempo version of Just Friends and feel like you're listening to a Las Vegas pit band circa 1964.

The Collective West Jazz Orchestra is led by saxophonist Fil Lorenz, who fell in love with big bands while a member of the prestigious Menlo-Atherton High School Orchestra. The band includes great Bay Area big band talent: hot, professional jazz players who know how to handle a chart and a solo.

Lorenz began trying to put a big band together in 1998, after returning to the Bay Area from a four-year Navy stint. His original inspirations were Count Basie, and Maynard Ferguson's bands of the '50s and '60s. A long tenure on Tuesday nights forged in the atmospheric basement performance space of Johnny Foley's Pub helped forge the Collective West Jazz Orchestra into a rollicking and dynamic ensemble.

Come have some big band fun, Wednesday nights at Jazz at Pearl's.

Note: TICKET TIERS FOR THIS SHOW Show Ticket: Sold in advance online and by phone. Includes guaranteed seating AND show ticket for our first or second show for arrival before curtain. 2 beverage minimum. VIP Ticket: Sold in advance online and by phone. Includes tickets to both shows, front of line access, instant seating, chilled bottle of champagne waiting at your table (included in price), reserved VIP table for both shows (stay at your table), CD of act with autograph. No beverage minimum.

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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