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Potomac River Jazz Club - Celebrating Over 50 Years!
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PRJC's Father's Day Concert featuring Alan Dale's New Legacy Jazz Band
June 8, 2025, from 2-4:30pm
Rosensteel Knights of Columbus of Silver Spring, 9707 Rosensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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Enjoy a swinging afternoon of hot jazz with drummer Alan Dale's New Legacy Jazz Band belting out New Orleans jazz and swing from the 20's and 30's. NLJB has performed for heads of state, congressmen, and embassies -- and now, for The Potomac River Jazz Club. The New Legacy Jazz Band is one of America's premier full-time professional ensembles. Appearing throughout the mid-Atlantic states, The New Legacy Jazz Band performs at festivals, weddings, corporate and other private receptions, casinos, colleges and theaters. Drummer/Leader Dale sets a blazing tone. He was a protege of the renowned master drummer Louis Bellson.
The Potomac River Jazz Club (PRJC) has been bringing Traditional Jazz to the DC area for 52 years. Our monthly concerts, Trad Jazz Jams, and online Jazz Talks offer a variety of programming for everyone. Our concerts are held at Rosensteel Hall in Silver Spring, MD. It is close to the Forest Glen Metro, has ample parking, and a spacious dance floor. There is plenty of seating, and a cash bar with beverages and snacks. Come on out and see why we have stood the test of time!
Admission:
PRJC members ($20), General admission ($25; $22.50 in advance), Youth & Students with valid student IDs (Free).
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PRJC Jazz Talk:
Jazz à la Creole
Featuring Caroline Vezina
June 16, 2025, 7-8:15pm, ONLINE via Zoom
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We are happy to invite author Caroline Vezina to a PRJC Jazz Talk in our online series.
During the formative years of jazz (1890–1917), Creoles musicians played a significant role in its development as teachers, bandleaders, instrumentalists, singers, and composers, Indeed, free or enslaved, the French Creoles all danced, played music or sang on multiple and diverse occasions, whether on plantations, at home or at church, in orchestras or even in the military, and their music incorporated African, European, and Caribbean elements decades before early jazz appeared.
They also composed or improvised Creole songs, some of which became part of their professional repertoire. As such, they belong both to the Black American folk music that gave birth to jazz, and to Franco-American folk music, thus reflecting the rich cultural heritage of Louisiana as they are still being played and recorded today.
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Based in Montreal, Caroline Vézina is an independent scholar specializing in the study of music and culture. She holds a BFA specialized in Jazz Studies and a MA in Music and Culture (2014). After graduation, she split her time between her hometown and New Orleans for many years to further her research on the music of the French Creoles. She is now completing a Certificate in Songwriting with Berklee Music Online. Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz (University Press of Mississippi, 2022) won the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.
The Potomac River Jazz Club (PRJC) has been bringing live jazz, jams and education to the DC area for 50 years. Learn more about our organization on www.prjc.org. All of our monthly online talks are FREE, but we appreciate donations toward the talks as folks are able.
*Register by 5:00 p.m. the day of the event using the link below. Zoom info will be e-mailed out to participants at that time.
Admission:The event is FREE!
Registration required by 5pm on the day of the event:
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You can support the PRJC or our Concerts and Educational Talks using the Paypal link www.paypal.me/PotomacRiverJazzClub
The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band
and the PRJC Jam
June 22, July 6, Aug 17, and Sept 7, from 2:30-5pm
Location: Alfio's La Trattoria, 4515 Willard Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD. Ph: 301 657-9133
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The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band opens and closes the music, with a Jam Session in the middle. All are welcome to sit in or just sit back and enjoy!
The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band was formed in 2003 to present the sounds of traditional jazz to Washington DC audiences. A seven-piece group, they play New Orleans style, Chicago style, small-group swing, and mainstream.
CCJB members include Dave Robinson, leader/cornet/trumpet, Brian Priebe on trombone, Gary Gregg on clarinet/sax, Dan Hall on bass, Jeff Reynolds on guitar/banjo, Brian Alpert on drums. Note: Alfio's has valet parking, street parking, and a full dinner menu available.
Visit the band's website at ccjazzband
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Admission: Jammers and students get in FREE - no charge if you play or sing. Members of the PRJC pay $10, and non-members $15. A single membership is only $25 a year - support the organization and get a discount on events!
PRJC Hot Days of Summer concert with The Capital Focus Jazz Band
July 13, 2025, from 2:00-4:30pm
Rosensteel Knights of Columbus of Silver Spring, 9707 Rosensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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The Capital Focus Jazz Band (CFJB, formerly known as the Federal Focus Jazz Band) is the Youth Learning Program of the Potomac River Jazz Club. Founded in 1988, CFJB has performed at receptions for the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State and many other dignitaries. CFJB has been led by Dave Robinson since its founding. Dave is an active jazz performer, historian, and educator. On trumpet, cornet, bass trumpet, valve trombone, and vocals, he has performed and toured with the top traditional and swing bands in the Washington DC area, and he currently leads the Conservatory Classic Jazz Band.
Most recently, the band wowed audiences at venues in Seattle. A week after their PRJC concert, the band takes off for France, where they will perform several times at Fest Jazz in the medieval village of Chateauneuf-du-Faou, sharing the bill with Tuba Skinny and Gunhild Carling.
At this concert, expect to hear the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Clarence Williams, Lu Watters, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and more, performed by cornetist Aiden Interrante, trumpeter Keller Remington, clarinetist Ashley Hsu, trombonist Marcel Penzes, pianist Minh Vo, banjo/guitarists Isaac Felix and Jackson Dunkin, tubist Evan Ramee, and drummer Daniel Hudson. Come see the band that Tailgate Ramblings reviewer Barbara deBoinville called a “great band…fabulous concert…we were powerfully transported to New Orleans”, and support these talented young musicians as they launch their French adventure.
Admission:
PRJC members ($20), General admission ($25; $22.50 in advance), Youth & Students with valid student IDs (Free).
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PRJC Jazz Talk Series:
Oy, That Yiddisha Charleston: Klezmer Invades Jazz
Presented by dynamic duo Seth Kibel and David Sager
July 21, 2025, 7-8:15pm, ONLINE via Zoom
The PRJC is excited to feature Rickey Riccardi back for our July Jazz Talk.
Klezmer, which literally means “tool of song” in Yiddish, is the secular folk music of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. In the first decades of the 1900s, this music flourished not only in the Old World but also in the New, in the immigrant community of New York City. There, the sounds of the European “fiddler on the roof” mixed with the sounds of early jazz and Tin Pan Alley. The result was a quintessentially American music.
PRJC stalwarts Seth Kibel (musically promiscuous woodwind maven) and David Sager (of the Library of Congress and about a gazillion trad bands) will discuss the history of this music, especially as it intersects, intertwines, and overlaps with that of jazz in the early decades of the twentieth century. This presentation will have you wiggling in front of your electronic devices, although the PRJC assumes no liability for any damage incurred when you attempt to dance the hora with your laptop computer.
The PRJC Jazz Talk series is held via Zoom and is always FREE, although we offer "donation" ticket options to help offset the cost of the program. We look forward to "seeing" you at this fascinating talk!
* Please register by 5:00 p.m. the day of the event using the link below. Zoom info will be e-mailed out to participants at that time.
Zoom Registration
You can support the PRJC or our Concerts and Educational Talks using the Paypal link www.paypal.me/PotomacRiverJazzClub
The PRJC Fall Concert with TBD
September 21, 2025, from 2-4:30pm
Rosensteel Knights of Columbus of Silver Spring, 9707 Rosensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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PRJC Oktoberfest concert with The Seth Kibel Quintet Featuring Flo Anito
October 12, 2025, from 2:00pm-5:00pm
Rosensteel Knights of Columbus of Silver Spring, 9707 Rosensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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The Seth Kibel Quintet, featuring Flo Anito is a PRJC favorite. They'll perform a varied program of jazz, swing, and yes, a little bit of klezmer for good measure. Expect lots of trad favorites, a few rarities, as well witty, insightful, and partially-accurate historical commentary from Seth (not to mention a lot of laughs). You'll hear plenty of good music suitable for dancing, listening, drinking, and heckling, including quite a few from Seth's most recent album on Azalea City Recordings, "Clown With A Stick," released in May 2023.
Admission:
PRJC members ($20), General admission ($25; $22.50 in advance), Youth with valid student IDs (Free).
PRJC concert with Strathmore Scholar in Residence Marcel Penzes's Peabody Pals
November 16, 2025, from 1:30-4:00pm
Rosensteel Knights of Columbus of Silver Spring, 9707 Rosensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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PRJC Holiday Gypsy Jazz Special with DC's Djangolaya
December 14, 2025, from 1:30pm-4:30pm
Rosensteel Knights of Columbus of Silver Spring, 9707 Rosensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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Rosensteel Hall
Directions:
From the Capital Beltway (I-495) in Maryland take Georgia Ave. (Md. Rte. 97) a short distance north to signal at Forest Glen Road (Md. Rt. 192).
Turn left and go west 0.4 miles. Turn right on Rosensteel Ave.
The Hall is at 9707 Rosensteel Ave. on the right, opposite a church and cemetery. Parking is in the back. * This location is metro accessible: FOREST GLEN METRO STATION is only 2-3 blocks away. Rosensteel phone is 301-588-3303.
Rosensteel Knights of Columbus of Silver Spring , 9707 Rosensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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