The opening concert of the Madison Jazz Society's fall concert series on Sunday, September 27, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Coliseum Bar, 232 E Olin Avenue, Madison, will feature Wisconsin native, now California resident, Bob Schulz returning to perform with the Vagabond Reeds.

MJS President Linda Marty Schmitz said, "Bob loves to return to his native Wisconsin every chance he gets and we always jump at the opportunity to invite him back. Bob was a band director at Lowell-Reeseville and Lake Mills High Schools from 1961-1979, and was a founding member of Wisconsin's Riverboat Ramblers at Ft. Lewis, WA, while a member of the 32nd Division Band."

Schulz moved to the San Francisco area in 1979 to perform with jazz legend Turk Murphy.

His years with Turk included 300 radio shows, many LPs, tours of the U.S. and Europe and the Carnegie Hall Tribute to Turk. After Murphy's death, he organized his Frisco Jazz Band in 1989 and patterned it after the great Bob Scobey's Frisco Band of the 1950s and 1960s.

The band performs a vast array of selections ranging from Muggsy Spanier to Turk Murphy to Eddie Condon, all played much the way the free-spirited Scobey would have done. He is considered the foremost exponent of the Bob Scobey trumpet style and an outstanding vocalist in the tradition of Clancy Hayes.

The Vagabond Reeds were formed by Dave MacGregor and the late Harold Smith, who based the group on the legendary Soprano Summit. The band has evolved into a solid group that provides great music around southern Wisconsin, performing semi-monthly at the Coliseum Bar in Madison and at other events including the Bunny Berigan Jazz Jubilee in Fox Lake.

Lindy Marty Schmitz

Bob Schulz, a Wisconsin native, will be playing with the Vagabond Reeds at the opening concert of the Madison Jazz Society's fall concert series on Sunday, September 27, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Coliseum Bar in Madison.

Concert tickets are $20 for MJS members; $25 for non-members and those age 18 and younger are admitted free. Doors open at Noon. Details can be found at http://www.madisonjazz.com or by calling (608) 850-5400.

About the Jazz Society

Formed in 1984, the Madison Jazz Society is a non-profit, all volunteer organization formed to encourage the performance of and education about jazz. It annually sponsors six concerts and a jazz festival that attracts jazz fans from all over the nation.

The group sponsors the broadcast of Riverwalk on Wisconsin Public Radio and awards grants to school music departments to enhance their jazz education programs.

MJS will sponsor its 28th annual Capital City Jazz Fest in April 2016.