What is This Thing Called Jazz?

On Friday July 22 at 7:30 p.m. the Salisbury Summer Performance Series will host Dick Forman (piano) and Glendon Ingalls (string bass) as they explore the music that's been called America's National Treasure. There'll be playing and probably some singing – there might even be dancing in the aisles. "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"!

Dick Forman is Middlebury College's Director of Jazz Activities, where he leads jazz ensembles as well as teaches jazz voice and jazz piano. As leader of The Dick Forman Jazz Group, he has appeared at regional jazz festivals, performed on Public Radio, and played for countless public and private events for a very long time. Dick has lived in Salisbury since the early '70's.

Glendon Ingalls, of Rutland is a former public school music educator. He enjoys performing on a variety of instruments including bass and trumpet. His current teaching includes private instruction on trumpet and basses at his home in Rutland, at Castleton University and Middlebury College, and on trumpet at Middlebury Community Music Center.

Because of the need to utilize the piano, the concert will occur indoors. We request that you wear a mask unless you have been fully vaccinated, and we welcome those who prefer to remain masked even though they are fully inoculated.

This will be the fourth of eight concerts in Salisbury's forty-second Summer Performance Series, which will run through August 25 at the historic, but handicapped accessible, 1838 meetinghouse in Salisbury Village. There is no admission charge; a free-will donation in support of the series will be appreciated.