THE JAZZ MUSIC BOOK

Singer/pianist Bobby short opens up the learning From Performers' second semester programming with a two-hour seminar on the tradition of the American popular song style, Monday, February 16, at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room.

Short, one of the finest interpreters of Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Rodgers and Hart, and George Gershwin, has been playing his jazzy numbers for more than 40 years.

Short is a New York. Favorite, having played at the Hotel Carlyle for years. He should spend plenty of time at the seminar doing what he likes to do best, performing.

If you can't make the seminar, he'll be playing at Symphony Hall, Sunday at 8 p.m.

The Jazz Workshop has booked saxophonist John Klemmer for two shows nightly at 8:30 p.m. and II p.m., Friday and Saturday. Klemmer is an exciting performer with a driving, plangent sound--one of the deepest, but often the most electrical, tenors playing. His latest album, Touch, has mellowed a bit from Waterfall. Some even contend that the songs can't know, I like the album from each other. I don't know, I like the album alot--ion any case, he's definitely worth seeing.