Dave Bennett & Third Coast Swing

May 16, 2027 - 6:30pm

Tier 1 - $44

Tier 2 Adult - $34

Tier 2 Senior - $29

Tier 2 Student - $19

Dave Bennett doesn’t fit the mold.

For starters, you don’t find many jazz clarinet players who name Alice Cooper, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Chris Isaak among their influences. You won’t find many musicians who are equally conversant with the music of Benny Goodman (the “King of Swing”) and Roy Orbison (“The Soul of Rock and Roll”). In fact, you may not find even one other clarinet virtuoso who breaks from his Swing Era repertoire to sing rockabilly hits while accompanying himself at the piano or electric guitar.

Opening for Dave Bennett is Third Coast Swing – a Michigan-based powerhouse of contemporary swing and Gypsy Jazz. Founder/director Stephen Plummer, vocalist Ella Jarvis, and guitarist Kaedin Plummer did a deep dive into early jazz classics by Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Billy Holiday, then arranged these songs to fit Third Coast Swing’s eclectic style. Tom Knific, a renowned bassist, joins Third Coast Swing in playing the music of the late Belgium-born Romani Gypsy, Django Reinhardt & his band, The Hot Club Of Paris (1930s-1940s) — think Louis Armstrong with a French accent.