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Featuring the SC Jazz Masterworks Ensemble and five incredible vocalists, this concert has become a beloved favorite, capturing the hearts of audiences with its rich blend of big band brilliance, soulful vocals, and the undeniable chemistry of live music. Grammy winner, Charlton Singleton will serve as guest artist and conductor. Bring your special someone or come solo for an evening of unforgettable music.

Jazz is for Lovers w/ Guest Conductor Charlton Singleton

Midlands Technical College

Join us for the Charleston Jazz Orchestra’s much-anticipated concert, “Mr. Soul,” a dazzling homage to the legends of soul music. Under the dynamic direction of Robert Lewis, this performance promises to transport audiences to an era where sounds rooted in jazz, gospel, and blues reigned supreme. Featuring 2x Grammy Award-Winner Charlton Singleton, audiences will enjoy timeless hits of icons like Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, James Brown, Ray Charles, Bill Withers, and Wilson Pickett.

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Mr. Soul – Featuring Charlton Singleton – Charleston Jazz Orchestra

Charleston Music Hall

This Grammy Award winning Charleston, SC- based quintet, performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. Playful game songs, ecstatic shouts, and heartbreaking spirituals can all be found on their latest release Good Time, which also offers the groups first original songs inspired by Gullah tradition.

Ranky Tanky

The Rosen House at Caramoor

String students from The Taylor Academy come together as the Academy Chamber Orchestra to perform a special concert.  The second half presents Senior Division Winners of The Florence Man & Bernard Sze Concerto Competition.

Academy Chamber Orchestra

The Royal Conservatory of Music

The Grammy® Award-winning, Charleston, SC-based quintet performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the Southeastern Sea Islands. Their debut album soared to the number-one position on the charts. Playful game songs, ecstatic shouts, and heartbreaking spirituals inspired by the Gullah tradition.  

Clayton State University

Experience the magic of jazz with Charleston Jazz and the Gaillard Center’s annual “Jazz Day for Kids” event! This dynamic educational program brings the vibrant world of jazz to life for students from Kindergarten through middle school. The concert will be hosted by the legendary Charlton Singleton, a two-time Grammy Award winner (Ranky Tanky) and Gaillard Center Artist-in-Residence Emeritus. Charlton’s charismatic presence and deep knowledge of jazz make this event an unforgettable experience for young audiences.

JAZZ DAY FOR KIDS: Charleston Jazz Express

Gaillard Center

Formosa Quartet

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Experience an electrifying performance like no other as The Abdiel Iriarte Experiment takes the stage at the 2024 Charleston Jazz Festival Finale! This hard-driving band is a force to be reckoned with, combining the best of Afro-Venezuelan-Cuban rhythms with a modern jazz twist.


Charleston Jazz Festival: Charlton Singleton & Contemporary Flow

Firefly Distillery

“Hers is a voice so big and so spine-tinglingly beautiful that on a nightly basis it does the near impossible” (The Guardian). Two-time GRAMMY winner Lisa Fischer joins Gullah groovemasters Ranky Tanky for an incendiary reprise of their sold out 2022 residency.

Known far and wide for her powerhouse vocals and prominent role in director Morgan Neville’s Oscar-winning 2013 music documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, Fischer won a GRAMMY for her #1 charting R&B single “How Can I Ease the Pain” and has toured for over two decades with the Rolling Stones, belting out “Gimme Shelter” to astonished audiences around the world. She’s contributed her soaring instrument to innumerable film soundtracks and performances alongside Luther Vandross, Tina Turner, Gregory Porter, Chris Botti, Sting, and industrial rock juggernaut Nine Inch Nails.

Ms. Lisa Fischer w/ Ranky Tanky

SFJAZZ Center

Get in a Gullah groove with GRAMMY® winning South Carolina band Ranky Tanky. Born of the Gullah culture of the Carolina Coast and Sea Islands, their music is a thrilling collision of traditional spirituals, call and response, folk songs, and playground chants, infused with hot American jazz. Featuring Quentin Baxter (Drums and Percussion), Kevin Hamilton (Bass), Clay Ross (Guitar and Vocals), Charlton Singleton (Trumpet and Vocals) and the phenomenal vocals of lead singer Quiana Parler.

Ranky Tanky with very special guest Ms. Lisa Fischer

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

In a rollicking homecoming concert, Quentin Baxter electrifies the Cistern Yard— where, as a child, he heard evening concerts from outside its wrought-iron gates. While the Grammy-winning drummer—a Spoleto veteran—has anchored other ensembles, this evening puts Baxter front and center, leading a phenomenal band through time-honored classics and his own compositions that infuse modern jazz with the Gullah and church traditions of his Charleston roots.

Quentin Baxter Quintet

College of Charleston

American trumpeter, vocalist and former leader of the Charleston Jazz Orchestra, Charlton Singleton is a GRAMMY Award-winning recording artist along with his fellow Ranky Tanky band mates.

Charleston Jazz Festival: Charlton Singleton’s Beehive Orchestra

Multi-talented musician, composer, educator, producer, Charlestonian, and GRAMMY award winning Quentin Baxter joins the CSO for an evening of jazzy sounds inspired by various art forms. Along with Baxter, several other special guests will perform.

The concert will feature music from a recent recording project of the Quentin Baxter Quintet, “Art Moves Jazz.” Charleston’s musical talent will certainly shine with Ravel’s Bolero, Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, Fantasia on an Ellington Theme (featuring drum solos), and feisty tangos by Astor Piazzolla.

Conductor, Trumpetist, Organist

Charlton Singleton

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Feb 14, 2026

Jazz is for Lovers w/ Guest Conductor Charlton Singleton · SC Jazz Foundation

Sep 20, 2025

Mr. Soul – Featuring Charlton Singleton – Charleston Jazz Orchestra · Charleston Jazz

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