Cleveland Jazz Orchestra featuring Hubbs Groove

Sat, Nov 29

Together for the first time this November! Hubb’s Groove and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra join forces for a night of genre bending mix of funk, blues, and jazz at BLU Jazz+! Doors: 7:00pm Show: 8:00pm Tickets: General Admission ($30 in advance, $35 at door) About: The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice since 1985. Led by award-winning composer and trombonist Paul Ferguson, the CJO promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms, through concerts featuring a stellar line-up of jazz luminaries, arrangers, composers, and educators. At a CJO concert, you will enjoy “the best jazz you’ve ever heard and the best jazz you’ve never heard.” Through inventive, original music and effective, innovative Educational Outreach, the CJO shepherds young and up-and-coming musicians and provides our region with unique and important cultural experiences. Hubb’s Groove plays jazz, soul, gospel, classical and R&B music. The band was founded in 1995 under the name Moment’s Notice. The founding band members are Rodney Hubbard, Cliff Coleson, David Heman, Eddie Baccus Jr. and I, Robert Hubbard Jr. As band members went out on tour, they added new members, such as Robert White, Andrew Braxton, Keith Mckelly, Jermaine Lockhart, Tony Pulizzi and Walter Barnes Jr. The band changed it’s name to Straight to the Point in 2000, Change on Five in 2004, then Hubb’s Groove in 2006. The band has performed with Angela Bofill, Roger Smith, Marcus Johnson, Walter & Tramaine Hawkins, Vesta Williams, Gerald Levert and many more. The band has opened up for Earth, Wind & Fire, Yellow Jackets, Randy Crawford, Marian Meadows, Pieces of a Dream, Wayman Tisdel, Roy Ayers & many more….