Join us at the historic Kentucky Theatre for a special pay what you can holiday show featuring the Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet playing holiday classics from Vince Guaraldi and the OJS All-Stars Big Band playing the Duke Ellington Nutcracker Suite.

The first half of the concert will feature Isaiah J. Thompson, winner of the 2023 American Pianists Awards and the Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz of the American Pianists Association. Isaiah has performed with major artists, including Ron Carter, John Pizzarelli, Christian McBride, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Steve Turre and Buster Williams. For this show, his quartet will be playing from his album A Guaraldi Holiday, which features tunes from Vince Guaraldi's famous A Charlie Brown Christmas.

After that, Thompson's quartet will join with Origins Jazz Series veterans from around the region to play the classic Ellington/Strayhorn arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.