The genre-bridging orchestra with vocalist China Forbes joins the Tucson Symphony Orchestra for one of the '23 Jazz Festival's biggest parties.
Cathalena E. Burch The 2023 HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival kicks off in earnest this weekend with the all-out party of Pink Martini with China Forbes.
People are also reading… 2023 marks the band’s 28th year of touring when you count the COVID pandemic off year. The album will come out around the time of her May 6 solo orchestra show with the Oregon Symphony. It will be her first-ever solo orchestra show. “I had never been to Tucson, but I wrote this song when I was probably 23,” she said, adding that she had a couple friends in college who were from Tucson and still live here. “I was living in New York, and I was imagining this different kind of life that I would have in Tucson, in the desert. … It’s kind of cool.”
The band plays a lot of jazz festivals, but Forbes said they would never call themselves a jazz band.
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