LOVE ALWAYS: Celebrating the Romance of Nat King Cole

Show Description

Live at the Founders Club
Presented by the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
Performance Underwriter Jane and Dick Schmitt

Experience the Hobby Center in a whole new way! The Founders Club at the Hobby Center is transformed into an intimate live music club. Bring a group or meet new friends at cabaret-style table seating!  Full bar and light bites available before and during the show. 

Love Always is Jumaane Smith’s musical valentine to the intimate romanticism of Nat King Cole. Smith and his trio will sweep audiences off their feet with gorgeous renditions of “Embraceable You,” “I’m in the Mood for Love,” “Unforgettable,” and more.

Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” and more.

He has spent the last 18 years touring and recording with Michael Bublé as lead trumpeter and featured vocalist and has toured with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center, Birdland Jazz Club, The Blue Note, Tanglewood, Vail Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival, North Star Festival, Joe’s Pub, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, and many more. Smith has worked with musical legends such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Christian McBride, Barbra Streisand, Alicia Keys, Jon Batiste, Kamasi Washington, and Theo Croker. As a full scholarship recipient at the Juilliard School of Music’s Jazz Studies program, Wynton Marsalis was Smith’s primary trumpet teacher.

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