Season Series Event Schedule
2023-2024 Season Series at the Maltz Performing Arts Center:
“Home & Away”
Individual tickets are now on sale!
Bria con Brio!
featuring trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg
"The Shining Hope of Hot Jazz" (NY Times)
The CJO starts our 39th Season Series with Canadian trumpeter/vocalist Bria Skonberg. Bria is a 6 time Downbeat "Rising Star" and winner of Juno's Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. Equally enchanting whether singing or playing, Bria's creative genius enables her to deftly straddle styles from the likes of Louis Armstrong to Janis Joplin.
Friday, November 3, 2023: BLU Jazz+
Saturday, November 4, 2023: Maltz Performing Arts Center
Christmas Around the World
featuring vocalist Ava Preston
Although Ava just graduated from high school, she is an eleven time (!) Downbeat Award winner whose formidable talent has been heard on both coasts in jazz's most revered clubs and festivals. Ava joins the CJO to feature CJO arrangements of Holiday music from across the globe.
Friday, December 15, 2023: Maltz Performing Arts Center
Sunday, December 17, 2023: Lorain Palace Theatre
Smooth and Smart… Rodgers & Hart
with The Musical Theater Project
Once again TMTP and members of Cleveland Jazz Orchestra team up for an evening of the Great American Songbook, and this year the chapter profiles the sensational team of Broadway’s Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The two of them, along with the Gershwins and Cole Porter, raised the bar on sophisticated song, and on hand to prove it are Evelyn Wright and Michael Shirtz. “This Can’t Be Love,” “Bewitched,” “Manhattan,” “My Funny Valentine,” and “The Lady Is a Tramp” – say no more!
Bill Rudman and CJO’s Paul Ferguson co-host.
Saturday, January 27, 2024: Maltz Performing Arts Center
“Rhapsody in Blue” at 100 – More Experiments in Modern Music
The CJO has a long tradition of creating new and innovative music and collaborations that straddles styles. We celebrate the 100th year anniversary of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with a performance of the work by CJO's Jackie Warren on piano and conducted by the Cleveland Pops Orchestra's Carl Topilow. Additional selections will feature genre-bending music new and old from the CJO and the Cleveland Composer's Guild.
Friday, March 15, 2024: Maltz Performing Arts Center
Saturday, March 16, 2024: BLU Jazz+
Bonafide Genius
featuring bassist and vocalist Richard Bona
The CJO closes our 39th Season with singer, songwriter, and bass player Richard Bona. A Grammy Award winner, Richard is unsurpassed in connecting African sensibilities with jazz, world, and Afropop musics. Richard has been featured with Herbie Hancock, the Pat Metheny Group, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Chick Corea and many, many others.
Friday, April 26, 2024: Maltz Performing Arts Center (TICKETS)