Groups set to jazz up downtown

Before it?s over, let?s jazz up the night! Dr. Jazz and Four Horns are set to do just that at Friday night?s Main Street Live summer concert series. This will be the next to last concert before the series ends Aug. 25.

The two bands will bring on the jazz beginning with the Four Horns at 7 p.m. The band plays Dixieland and traditional jazz pieces and has been together for over six years. According to O.J. Cummins, the band?s leader, they play music from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Four Horns includes, trumpet, trombone, tenor sax and baritone sax. Band members include O.J. Cummins on saxophone, clarinet and piano, Joe Brindisi on tenor sax, Carroll Gotcher on trombone, Mike Chilcutt on trumpet and Ed Grooms on baritone sax.

Four Horns is comprised of a group of people who are part of a larger band based out of Cookeville.

Members of Dr. Jazz are Chilcutt, who plays in both bands, on trumpet, David Walker on saxophone, Billy Riggs on clarinet, Monte Mullican on drums, Nathaniel Alexander on bass and Mel Deal on banjo. Chris Chapman has taken over the piano for his father John Chapman who passed away last year.

The performances will be held on the West Lawn of Security Federal on West Main Street.

The event is free and sponsored by River Park Hospital, Dr Pepper Bottling Company of McMinnville, the Law Offices of Galligan and Newman, Ben Lomand TV, Clear Channel Radio and the Southern Standard, your source for local news.