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Critic’s Picks: Pearl Django in Bremerton, Jazz Live at Marine View, Second City clarinet concert and accordions at Classical Tuesdays in Tacoma

Gypsy jazz quintet Pearl Django will play at Bremerton’s Collective Visions Gallery this week.
Gypsy jazz quintet Pearl Django will play at Bremerton’s Collective Visions Gallery this week. Courtesy

Pearl Django at Bremerton gallery

A new version of the Seattle gypsy jazz quintet Pearl Django comes to Bremerton with a concert at Collective Visions Gallery, playing standards of the Paris hot club era along with new compositions.

7 p.m. Friday (Jan. 8). $20 advance and $24 at door. Collective Visions Gallery, 331 Pacific Ave., Bremerton. 360-377-8327, brownpapertickets.com/event/2469908.

Jazz Live at Marine View

This month’s Jazz Live features the Seattle-based 200 Trio (guitarist Cole Schuster, bassist Greg Feingold and drummer Max Holmberg), with guests Kareem Kandi on saxophone and Jared Hall on trumpet, giving a new take on traditional jazz.

5 p.m. Sunday. Free. Marine View Church, 8469 Eastside Dr. NE, Tacoma. 253-229-9206, marineviewpc.org.

Clarinet and piano at Second City

Clarinetist Cindy Renander and pianist Una Huang explore 20th-century standards of the clarinet repertoire for Second City Chamber Series’ Spotlight concert Sunday, with composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Charles Villiers Stanford and Malcolm Arnold.

4 p.m. Sunday. $25 adults; $23 senior, military; free for ages 18 and younger. First Lutheran Church, 524 S. I St., Tacoma. 253-572-8863, scchamberseries.org.

Accordion joy at Classical Tuesdays

Jazz, classical, old-time — accordions can do it all, and at the next free Classical Tuesdays in Old Town concert musicians Bonnie Birch, Murl Sanders, Toby Hanson and Lyle Schaefer have as much fun as possible with that many keys.

7 p.m. Tuesday. Free. Slavonian Hall, 2306 N. 30th St., Tacoma. classicaltuesdays.blogspot.com.

Rosemary Ponnekanti: 253-597-8568, @rose_ponnekanti

This story was originally published January 7, 2016 at 4:04 AM with the headline "Critic’s Picks: Pearl Django in Bremerton, Jazz Live at Marine View, Second City clarinet concert and accordions at Classical Tuesdays in Tacoma."

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