A RARE EVENING AT DEER HEAD INN with DERWYN HOLDER ENSEMBLE

The Derwyn Holder Ensemble, featuring pianist-composer Derwyn Holder, will be performing his original jazz compositions at Deer Head Inn,  Sunday, Nov. 16, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Holder has played with jazz greats such as Sonny Stitt, James Moody, Zoot Sims, Charlie Ventura, Clark Terry, Buddy Tate, Billy Eckstine, Johnny Hartman, and others, and in 2012 composed a full symphony.

The other members of his ensemble include Alan Brady on alto sax; Ron Naspo on bass; and Bob Beck on drums. Brady played with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Ray Charles, and the Walter Thompson Orchestra. Naspo worked with Sonny Rollins, Stan Kenton, Wild Bill Davison, Bucky Pizzarelli, Billy Maxted, and the Don Shirley Trio. Beck played with Lionel Hampton, performed in LA studios and on Broadway, and has written and conducted more than 30 recordings.

Internationally renowned Guest Artist "Sweet" Sue Terry plays soprano sax and clarinet, is an author and Deer Head regular who leads her own groups, and is Artist in  Residence at the Jazz Society of Ecuador. More about her at sueterry.net.

Deer Head Inn, which is known as the oldest continuously running jazz club in the country, offers food, music and lodging to visitors. It is situated at 5 Main Street, Delaware Water Gap, Penn. Admission to attend the jazz evening featuring the Derwyn Holder Ensemble, will be $10.

For more information regarding this exciting jazz venue, visit deerheadinn.com or call 570-424-2000.

JAZZ LIT

NOVELS

Mary Morris's upcoming novel, THE JAZZ PALACE, is scheduled for release in April, 2015 and is being published by Knopf Doubleday.

ACTS OF GOD, a previous novel by Morris, is also set in Chicago during the jazz age.

Morris, who has published 14 books, teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

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SHORT STORIES

Jazz short stories by Arya F. Jenkins may be found on the Jerry Jazz Musician website:
www.jerryjazzmusician.com.

Her published stories there, include the award-winning, "So What," also "Soliloquy," "The Bluest Train," "Epistrophy," and "Broad Street."