Tallahassee’s Thursday Night Music Club brings its big band labor-of-love to Ruby Diamond Concert Hall

One of Tallahassee’s best music groups is actually proud of the fact they almost never get paid for their performance. The band brings that “labor of love” to F-S-U’s Ruby Diamond Concert Hall this Thursday, Aug. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

The band is the Thursday Night Music Club.

The performance, said trombonist and group operations manager Greg Akridge, is the 17th annual jazz showcase at Ruby Diamond.

“We count on people coming to the show to even help pay for the hall. So it’s not even a fundraiser for us anymore. It’s just to get out into the community and do a comfortable, sit-down concert in a nice hall. So we do it for the love of it.”

Akridge said that love on Thursday will include tunes from Maynard Ferguson, Count Basie, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis among others. A total of 17 big band arrangements as the Thursday Night Music Club closes in on twenty years of great music.

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