Christmas classics were treated to a jazz make-over by the musicians who appeared on stage, dressed for the holidays. Friends, family and jazz fans arrived to enjoy the music preformed.
The Jingle Jazz quartet and Bemidji State University's (BSU's) Jazz One preformed in the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex on Saturday, Dec. 5.
The audience's response was positive after every song, and the pieces were performed well, each one full of holiday cheer with the rhythmic jazz style to keep even the slower songs up beat.
Songs played by BSU Jazz included: “My Two Front Teeth,” “Peace Horace Silver,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “Deck the Halls,” “Silver Bells” and “Jolly Ol' St. Nick.”
Also preformed were the songs “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” and “We Three Kings.”
Not only were there instrumental songs, but student vocalists Ashley Bremseth, Mattea Elhard, and Hyram Price (who also played trombone during the evening) sang two songs for the audience.
Price and Bremseth preformed the duet “Baby it’s Cold Outside” and Elhard, still recovering from a cold, sang with the second performance of Jingle Bells.
The evening concluded with a much softer song, “Silent Night.” The band played until each row of players stood up leaving a saxophonist and all the rhythm section to continue playing.
Everyone standing paired up, held hands, extended their outside arms in “teapot spout” style.
Walking in time to the music and moving their legs simultaneously, the line slowly left the stage leaving the remaining members to finish the Christmas classic.
Laughter was shared by the audience and it will surely be a Christmas story for them to tell this year.
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