On Friday December 31, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey will perform at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, OK. The group is encouraging fans to come in costumes, with prizes awarded at the New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball. As for the music, the group will interpret songs by Beyonce, Madonna, & Lady GaGa with special guests Annie Ellicott, Travis Fite, & Costa Stasinopoulos.

The next weekend will find JFJO in New York City at the 2011 NYC Winter Jazz Fest, with a performance slated for (Le) Poisson Rouge. JFJO will then return to Oklahoma and enter Church Studio in Tulsa and begin to record band member Chris Combs’ Race Riot Suite. The group will expand for this endeavor, drawing in a horn section that features Jeff Coffin, Steven Bernstein, Peter Apfelbaum and Mark Southerland.