Jazz at Holmes starts 2006 with Peter Martin

Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series will begin the second half of its 2005-06 season at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 26 with a performance from pianist Peter Martin. Martin is the U. City native turned New Orleanian who serves as music director for vocalist Dianne Reeves, and also helmed the recent Big River Hurricane Relief benefit at the Sheldon.

Jazz at Holmes concerts take place most Thursday nights while school is in session. All shows are free and open to the public and take place in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall, which is located on the west side of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Brookings and Hoyt drives on the Washington University campus.

Here's the rest of the lineup for this semester:

February 2: Vince Varvel
February 9: Erin Bode
February 16: Floyd LeFlore and J. D. Parran
February 23: Kara Baldus
March 2 : Roger Guth and Tom Kennedy
March 9: Jan Shapiro and William Lenihan
March 30: Paul DeMarinis
April 6: Chris Burchett
April 13: Adam Maness
April 20: Mike Karpowicz
April 27: Willie Akins

For more information, call (314) 935-4841 or email staylor@artsci.wustl.edu.

(edited 1/19/06 to fix a typo)