The Piedmont Triad Jazz Orchestra Participates in NC Music Educators Conference

One of our state's newest big bands will be swinging this weekend at the North Carolina Music Educators Association Conference in Winston-Salem.

The Piedmont Triad Jazz Orchestra (“PTJO”), calls Greensboro home, and soon they'll be collaborating with area high school jazz programs, offering residencies, master classes and reduced fees to bi-monthly concerts in town. PTJO musicians hail from the big bands of Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra just to name a few.

On Sunday night, November 9^th in the Stevens Center, the PTJO will perform for their peers during the North Carolina Music Educators Conference in Winston-Salem. On Sunday night, December 7^th at 7:30pm, it's the PTJO holiday concert at The Crown at the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro. 

We're sampling from the orchestra in today's show. PTJO Co-founder, and one of today's leading tenor saxophonists Wally West shares his love of the Swing Era's big band sound, and the dedication it takes to keep the tradition alive in 2014.