The Mataban Jazz Experience will play one performance only on Saturday, March 23 at 7 p.m., at The Salvation Army Kroc Center.

The band’s creator, local musician, Joseph Mataban, was still in high school when he started the musical group.

“My music palette has expanded so much since then,” Mataban said, in a news release. “We have always played primarily classic, old school jazz, a lot of Count Basie tunes and such. This concert will be a first showcase of where I want to take the band musically.”

He said Mataban Jazz Experience will be leaning hard into a more upbeat, funky, modern sound, with some original compositions and everything from Vulfpeck to some Sammy Nestico.

“It’s going to be a blast,” Mataban said.

Mataban has been passionate about music of all sorts since he was a small child, singing and dancing from the time he could walk and talk.

He started playing the saxophone in sixth grade and fell in love immediately. Since then he has thirsted for more and more music in his life.

Mataban has had his own jazz combo, played in the Panhandle Symphony Orchestra, arranged and composed songs and met and played with jazz giant Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band.

The Mataban Jazz Experience’s musical performance is directed, selected, composed and arranged by Mataban.

And it’s a family effort.

His sister, Madison Mataban, who sings with the band, is walking a similarly unique path in life. Madison is a tattoo artist at their parents’ business, Jojo’s Tattoo & Body Piercing, in Coeur d’Alene.

Tickets for the Mataban Jazz Experience can be purchased for $18 at kroccda.org/tickets or at The Kroc Center Box Office, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students and seniors are only $15.