Legendary Cleveland Jazz Orchestra plays Special Show and announces their Schedule for their upcoming 35th Season! 

Special Guest Vocalist Evelyn Wright!

For 34 years, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has provided NEO with many memorable educational and entertaining events. Every year, the CJO can be heard with the finest jazz musicians in the idiom as well as the region's budding jazz neophytes. Nighttown is excited to share an evening on June 1st on the Fully Covered Stephens Green Patio with the CJO  as they hold their first ever season announcement event called "Looking Forward, Laying Back." The evening will feature a CJO small group during a cocktail hour, and the big band will perform selections from the upcoming and current seasons.

Paul Ferguson has been director of Jazz Studies at Case Western Reserve University since 1988. A graduate of the University of Akron and the Eastman School of Music, Paul has traveled with the Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller bands as lead trombonist and arranger and currently fills those functions with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. Paul was principal trombonist of the Canton Symphony from 1989-98 and at various times has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Opera, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Apollos's Fire, the Cleveland Chamber Brass, the New Hampshire Festival Orchestra and various groups across Northeast Ohio. In 1995, Paul was the recipient of the Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition.He has two recordings-"Blue Highways", recorded with the RIAS Big Band of Berlin, and "Friends", recorded with his own orchestra. Last summer, Paul taught at an International Jazz Seminar in Zarautz, Spain, wrote three