Artis-Naples was visited by ghosts from the Swing Era past on Friday night, December 8, 2023. When Dave Bennett took the stage with his quartet comprised of himself (Clarinet, Guitar, Piano and Vocals), Jeff Kressler on Piano, Ed Fedewa playing the Bass and Pete Siers on Drums, the audience was transported into an era long …
The thing about a tradition is that if you stop doing what the tradition stands for, you lose the meaning of the tradition itself. A tradition — the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation — disappears and becomes lost, and everything around that tradition leaves human consciousness. Fortunately, the tradition of honoring …
