Jazzin’ with the classics for Christmas

Music at Emmanuel presents the ninth annual yuletide baroque, which for the fourth year in a row is entitled, "Jazzin' with the Classics for Christmas," featuring soprano Linda Tsatsanis, jazz flutist, pianist and clarinetist Martin Lund, classical flutist Jeffrey Cohan and very special guest virtuoso vibraphone player, Tom Collier.

Music at Emmanuel presents the ninth annual yuletide baroque, which for the fourth year in a row is entitled, “Jazzin’ with the Classics for Christmas,” featuring soprano Linda Tsatsanis, jazz flutist, pianist and clarinetist Martin Lund, classical flutist Jeffrey Cohan and very special guest virtuoso vibraphone player, Tom Collier.

The concert is on Monday, Dec. 28 at 3 p.m. at Emmanuel Episcopal Parish in Eastsound on Orcas Island.

Admission will be by free will offering, with a suggest donation of $10. 18 and under free.

In this program, four renowned classical and jazz artists and friends meld their musical perspectives in an unusual collaboration and unique celebration of the Yuletide season that is guaranteed to generate an abundance of Christmas cheer.

Tsatsanis, Lund, Cohan and Collier will team up to bridge contemporary improvisational jazz and the “art music” of baroque and renaissance times. Instrumental musicians have “jazzed up” melodies familiar to them in the style of their day for centuries, and this team’s virtuoso improvisations on Yuletide favorites, and their renditions of classical standards such as arias from Handel’s Messiah will bring together the best of jazz and classical worlds.