Northeastern Arts Network Presents Jazz Legacy Project At Glasgow High School

The Northeastern Arts Network is pleased to present the 2024-25 Big Sky Concert Series. This year’s series features exciting kaleidoscope of musical entertainment as part of this art organization’s ongoing commitment to provide quality entertainment to the community with a variety of shows that will appeal to every age and interest.

The Jazz Legacy Project (JLP) performs the great legends of jazz such as John Coltrane, Billy Holiday and Thelonious Monk on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Created in 2015 after an epiphany, Justin Varnes had while teaching Jazz History at Georgia State University, the JLP has an ongoing residency at the Velvet Note Jazz Club in Atlanta, where they have been selling out their performances for six years and counting. Ditching a traditional textbook in favor of playing records and telling stories about the artists to college kids who knew little or nothing about jazz proved to be a big success. It turned out that performing the artist’s music and telling their stories in between proved to be an even bigger success. But it’s more than just offering insight into what to listen for when listening to jazz, it’s also woven into American history – as jazz itself is. Many movements in jazz are a direct result of cultural shifts in America, and connecting an artists’s music to a time or an event in history can open up a new world when listening to it.

All Northeastern Arts Network Big Sky Concert Series will be held at the Glasgow High School in Glasgow, starting at 7 p.m. At the door prices are adults $20; senior $18; and student $15.

The Big Sky Series is made possible in part by the Montana Performing Arts Consortium Presenter Development Program, which is sponsored by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Montana Arts Council, legislative grant from Montana’s Cultural Trust, and WESTAF.