Bob Schultz's Frisco Jazz Band

media release: The Madison Jazz Society will present their final concert featuring Bob Schulz’s Frisco Jazz Band on Sunday, May 21.  President Linda Marty Schmitz said, “We are at the end of almost 40 years of presenting concerts for Madison traditional jazz fans.  This concert will be a celebration of those years of great music with cake and historical displays.  We might even go into overtime.”

Wisconsin native and now Bay Area cornetist Bob Schulz will bring his Frisco Jazz Band to Madison to perform at the grand finale concert.  Bob’s Frisco Jazz Band began in 1990 after his eight year stint with Turk Murphy at McGoons, then Pier 39 and the New Orleans room at the Farimont Hotel in San Francisco.  He continued with the new name of Frisco Jazz Band, modeled after Bob Scobey’s band, but it isn’t named after San Francisco, it is named after the Frisco Railroad.  Being a railroad fan and train collector since the 1970s, Schulz uses the name, with permission from the Frisco Railroad Museum in Springfield, Missouri, where he purchased all the logos seen on the band shirts. Through the years, they’ve tried to maintain the music as it was played by some of the old great jazz artists, with a little of their own spirit inserted in.  

In addition to Schulz on trumpet; Kim Cusack will play reeds; Tom Bartlett, trombone; Scott Anthony, banjo; Dave Bock, tuba; Ray Skjelbred, piano & Ray Kelliher, drums.  This concert is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Mead Witter Foundation.

The concert will be held at the East Side Club, 3735 Monona Drive, Madison, from 1-4 PM, with doors opening at 12:30 AM.  Ticket price: $15-MJS members; $20-non-members and those age 18 & younger-free.  More information is available on the Society’s web site, www.madisonjazz.com or by calling 608-850-5400.