With each composition and performance, Jazz musician Michael Ross invites audiences onto his musical voyage. Performed at the modern Unitarian Universalist Church in Sarasota, a popular venue for the Jazz Club of Sarasota, we arrived for Ross's 'All About Jazz' on a sunny Friday afternoon for 'Jazz at 2' with Pablo Arencibia on piano, Phil Magallanes on electric guitar, and Walt Hubbard on drums, for a sensational afternoon of inspired jazz. Dedicated since 1980 to preserving and promoting jazz, The Jazz Club of Sarasota is one of the largest and most active jazz organizations in the United States. The Jazz Club of Sarasota began as the brainstorm of Hal Davis, who retired to Sarasota in 1978 with his wife Evelyn.
Hal was president of a Manhattan advertising agency and began his P.R. career in the publicity department of CBS. He handled top talent like the big bands of the era and managed Benny Goodman’s tours of Asia, Europe and the Soviet Union. When he came to Sarasota, he saw that there was an orchestra, opera and theatre, but something was missing – Jazz. So he and Evelyn invited people over to listen to music in their Pelican Cove apartment – and that’s how it started!
Phil Magallanes on electric guitar
Jazz at 2 with Michael Ross '4'
Hal Davis died in 1996, pictured with his wife Evelyn
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