NEW ORLEANS CRESCENT CITY JAZZ BAND FEATURED AT BONUS COMMUNITY CONCERT

Connie Jones and the Crescent City Jazz Band will perform in Cape Girardeau Tuesday as part of the Community Concert Association bonus concert series.

The New Orleans-based band plays jazz favorites including "Basin Street Blues," "Muskrat Ramble" and "Sugar Blues."

The concert begins at 8 p.m. at Academic Auditorium and is open to the public free of charge when season tickets to the Community Concert Association's 1991-92 season are purchased.

The band has been a regular for the past six-and-a-half years at the New Angel Club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Its repertoire includes renderings of the works of King Oliver "Jelly Roll" Morton and Louis Armstrong.

In addition to Jones, band members are Jim Snyder, clarinet; Al Barthlow, trombone; Leslie Muscutt, banjo; Richard Taylor, drums; and Warren Felts, tuba.

Membership in the concert association includes free admittance to concerts throughout the season plus free admittance to Southeast Missouri State University Cultural Program concerts. Reciprocal memberships to attend community concerts in Perryville, Poplar Bluff, Sikeston, Paducah and Carbondale are also included.

Season tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students. A family membership is $50.