Artist Information
| November 28, 2008 8:00 / 9:30 pm $30 PHIL NORMAN TENTETJoin us for a special tribute to Ruth Price and the Jazz Bakery. 100% of the proceeds of the evening will go to benefit the non-profit Jazz Bakery. This will be an evening to thank Ruth and the club for all the wonderful years of support to jazz, the all American music form, which they have given over the years Visit our web site and sample some of our tunes and order our latest release: http://www.philnormantentet.com/playersarrangers.html
The Phil Norman Tentet Performers subject to change. AND THE FOLLOWING ARRANGERS: | |
| November 29, 2008 8:00 / 9:30 pm $35 PONCHO SANCHEZLive in concert or on recordings, Poncho spins vivacious tales that
pay homage to the glories of a half-century tradition that was born when
Afro-Cuban rhythms merged with bebop. One-on-one, the Chicano conguero
is equally expressive, recounting in vivid detail the encounters, friendships,
and passions that have contributed to his remarkable career as a bandleader
and recording artist. Behind the choice of every song, album title and
guest artist, there's a story Poncho Sanchez delights in telling. |
| November 30, 2008 8:00 / 9:30 pm $25 MON DAVIDRecognized as one of the Philippine’s great singers, he is known for his wide vocal range, rich tone, mellifluous style and eclectic musicality, Mon has shared the stage with jazz luminaries such as David Benoit, Eric Marienthal, Tina May, Lee Gibson, Bobby Enriquez, Boney James, Peter White and Pete Churchill Trio among others. With his latest outing “MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE” (a compilation
of jazz evergreens and Mon’s originals “Ama, Abe Mu Ku, Nasa ‘Yo,
Yan Ang Pinoy”) to be released worldwide by CANDID RECORDS U.K., First
London International Jazz Competition for Vocalist 2006 Grand Prize Winner
MON DAVID is all set to share with the whole world his unique artistry
and his philosophy that indeed music that comes from the heart can heal,
build, inspire & unite. |
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November 30, 2008 4:00 PM $25 m-pact -- A - CAPPELLA JAZZ VOCAL GROUPFrom the beginning, the "pact" of these well-studied masters
has been to stay true to Music, regardless of style or genre. Their sophisticated
sound and accessible appeal have garnered vast accolades, from Vocal Group
of the Year from the LA Music Awards, an Indie nomination (the Independent
GrammyTM), and Artist of the Year (Seattle Music Awards), to Grand National
Champs of the Harmony Sweepstakes competition. |
| December 1, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $30 CHRIS WALDEN BIG BANDThe award winning German composer/arranger has scored over 30 feature & TV films and has done arrangements for dozens of artists including Nancy Wilson, Barbra Streisand, Bill Conti, and the Chicago Symphony. Walden started writing for German radio orchestras at 21 and conducted the Frankfurt Radio Big Band and the RIAS Big Band in Berlin before relocating to Los Angeles at age 29. His big band is comprised of Los Angeles' top studio and jazz artists including Peter Erskine, Pete Christlieb, Bobby Shew and many more. |
| December 2, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 MATT OTTO GROUPOrginal
Compositions Written by Matt Otto and dedicated to the Paris Commune of 1871. |
| December 3, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 CHELSEA SPANN SUN RISINGChelsea Spann is an up and coming jazz vocalist taught by world renowned musicians such as Barbara Morrison, Ruth Price, Michele Weir, Gerald Wilson, and Kenny Burrell. She is innately talented and willing to risk in performances, jamming sessions, or recording studio. It has been said that she is able to translate human emotion through music beckoning others to feel the hope, possibility, and wonder of life. Her voice has often been compared to a fine French Burgundy wine: full bodied, round, warm, silky, and classic, with a hint of pleasurable aftertaste that lingers after she performs. We invite you to hear this fantastic new sound that'll make you share, laugh, and love more. |
| December 4-6,2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 JOHN BEASLEY QUARTET“With
John playing against silence, or just his heart tones, he came up with these
strikingly beautiful, short, dark dramas - this music- and they’re as
deep as they are disarmingly sweet. I could never figure out if he was thinking
with his fingers, or hearing the possibilities with his fingers, or is just
so comfortable with the instrument that internally hearing it, imagining the
music that could be, and playing it were effortless and immediate.” |
| December 7, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 ROBERTO MAGRIS EUROPLANE QUINTETMagris was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1959 and began his jazz career in the late ‘70s. In the ‘80s, he led a jazz trio named “Gruppo Jazz Marca”, whose recordings were reissued in 2006, as collector’s items, by English label Arision. In 1987, he founded the “Roberto Magris Quartet”, a group that has performed all around the world for two decades. In 1998, he founded the “Europlane Orchestra”, a central-European jazz venture sponsored by INCE-CEI (Central European Initiative), which eventually led to the creation of the Internationally renowned “Roberto Magris Europlane”. In 2003, he collaborated with Herb Geller (the West-Coast jazz master), recording the Cd “Il bello del Jazz” (Soulnote). In the same year, he started his musical partnership with Tony Lakatos (the outstanding European jazz saxophonist), recording the Cd “Check In” (Soulnote). Both the Cd’s received stunning reviews from the International jazz critics. read entire article www.allaboutjazz.com . |
| December 7, 2008, Matinee 3pm $25 "Come Sunday - JAZZ ON THE SACRED SIDE"Featuring Nailah - a voice full of African American Dap and Reciprocity. She praises the culture and its elders. Praises the difficulty of living with integrity. Praises the satisfaction that blossoms when music is more than entertainment - it's the soundtrack for ceremonial living and doing the right thing." - Peter J. Harris, Author http://nailahmusic.com/ THIS NEW SERIES IS INSPIRED BY DUKE ELLINGTON'S SACRED CONCERTS. When Mr. Ellington was commissioned to do the first of his three Sacred Concerts he wrote: "Now I can say openly what I've been saying to myself on my knees" This series is an invitation for the great jazz musicians of our city and of our time to musically dive into their own "knee conversations" with and for the great jazz lovers/listeners in our city and in this time from Buddhists to Baptists to Baha'is and beyond...all who believe in the unifying and liberating principal of SWING COME SUNDAY! http://jazzhallelujah.blogspot.com/
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| December 8, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $30 BIG BAND: A KUBIS XMASOne of this era's finest big band arrangers also leads his own orchestra in Southern California. Loaded with talent and blessed with superb charts, Tom Kubis's band has assembled holiday cheer in a session that both meets traditional expectations and provides a fresh look at the holiday season. Performed live at the JB with some of the aria's greatest players. |
| December 9, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 AUSTIN PERALTA QUARTETMusic is an intense search, a probe of the untapped realm, an eternal sojourn. Music is a harmonious, discordant, mellifluous, cacophonous, tense, free, screaming, whispering, incongruous, euphonious, ugly, beautiful incarnation of sound. It is a language, a force of energy, a dance, a pause, a breath, a cosmic transcendence. Peralta’s life is defined by, immersed in, obsessed with, said music. It is a necessity. Music is his religion, his spirituality, his existence, his passion. http://www.myspace.com/austinperalta |
| December 10-13, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 BENNY GOLSON QUARTETFew
jazz musicians can claim to be true innovators and even fewer can boast of
a performing and recording career that literally redefines the term "jazz".
Benny Golson has made major contributions to the world of jazz with such jazz
standards as: Killer Joe, I Remember Clifford, Along Came Betty, Stablemates Benny Golson is the only living jazz artist to have written 8 standards for jazz repertoire. These jazz standards have found their way into countless recordings internationally over the years and are still being recorded. He has recorded over 30 albums for many recording companies in the United States and Europe under his own name and innumerable ones with other major artists. A prodigious writer, Golson has written well over 300 compositions. |
| December 14, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 KEVYN LETTAU - PETER SPRAGUEOfficial CD release concert |
| December 14, 2008, Matinee 4pm $25 TISH ONEY QUARTET PEGGY LEE TRIBUTETISH ONEY & JOHN CHIODINI TRIO (linking site not affiliated with Jazz Bakery) |
| December 15, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $30 CLARE FISCHER BIG BAND"He
is one of those rare musicians who truly understands music, not only with
his mind but first and most importantly with his heart and soul. His music
never stops evolving." Clare Fischer has so many interests, it is impossible to put him in a slot - he writes classical music as well as jazz and jazz as well as classical and both reflect his early street training as well as his academic training. His work has been commissioned by the legendary Hi-Lo's of the 1950's as well as Dizzy Gillespie, Prince, and Richard Stoltzman, with arrangements for Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, Branford Marsalis, Brandy and so many others. Clare has been recording for over forty years and here are just a few of the most recent CD's. As we are able to obtain the rights for others, we will be showing them to you here, so keep an eye on this site. The rest is yet to come... http://www.clarefischer.com/ Read a great interview with Clare: |
| December 16, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $35 - $20 GORDON GOODWIN BIG PHAT BAND XMAS SHOWCould this possibly be the biggest big band ever? The Phat Band play down some of Gordon's meanest xmas charts (and probably a few from their latest CD "Act Your Age". |
| December 17-20, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $30 CLAYTON BROS. JOHN & JEFFGERALD CLAYTON -pno TERELL STAFFORD -tpt QUINCY DAVIS - dr John and Jeff Clayton prove conclusively, that while blood may be thicker than water, it can also carry an unimpeded flow of pure creativity. The Clayton Brothers have toured and recorded regularly through the years. In 1991, they recorded "The Music" (Capri) as a quartet with pianist Bill Cunliffe and Jeff Hamilton. In 1997 they recorded "Expressions" (Qwest) with Cunliffe on piano and Herlin Riley on drums. In 2000, the band became a quintet again recording "Siblingity"(Qwest) with the addition of trumpeter Terell Stafford and the return of Jeff Hamilton. "My brother introduced me to Stafford who I heard play in New York; I knew that I wanted him in the group. Jeff and Terrell really hit it off. When they play together it brings to mind when Ray Brown used to reminisce to me about Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. He said it was like an alto sax being welded to a trumpet and one guy playing it. That was such a great visual and there are times when I hear my brother and Terell playing together that I get that; it sounds like one instrument." The most recent recording by the Clayton Brothers is "Back in the Swing of Things" (Hyena), featuring the co-leaders, Hamilton, Stafford and Cunliffe in an infectious blend of bop, blues, ballads and swing. "My son Gerald Clayton is playing piano with the group and he is working out very well. We've also added Obed Calvaire on drums". . |
December 21, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 COLIN WOODFORD TRIO
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| December 21, 2008, Matinee 4pm $25 INNERVOICES XMAS CONCERTThe four members of Inner Voices' bios read like a who's who of session recording. Practice has made perfect, and they are caroling at your door! Their luminous sound has been refined and honed until it shimmers. This sophisticated group satisfies the heart and the mind. |
| December 22, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $30 ED NEUMEISTER - JAZZ ORCHESTRAA veteran of most of the major big bands including the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich and Gerry Mulligan, Ed played with and wrote for the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) from1981-1999. Ed presents his own compositions with his choice of renowned musicians. |
| December 23, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 SING! SING! SING! Candlelight CarolsOur entertaining and nostalgic program features favorite holiday songs from
our Great American Songbook composers. This festive, family-friendly sing-along
will also feature the Jazz Bakery Kids Into Singing (JBKIS) serving up holiday
cheer from "Charlie Brown's Christmas" and a tune from "The Grinch
..."! We'll enjoy music by Irving Berlin, Mel Torme, Jule Styne, Sammy
Cahn and Hugh Martin, to name just a few. Howard Lewis always provides great
background stories as he introduces each song! From traditional carols to
popular music, past and present, this program lifts our spirits as we sing
joyful music as a community! |
| December 26, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 BANU GIBSON NEW ORLEANS HOT JAZZToday, Banu (bah'new) Gibson stands virtually at the top of her field. A superior and swinging jazz singer, Banu is one of the few vocalists of her generation to maintain exclusive loyalty to songs of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Rather than mimic singers of the past, she mixes fresh renditions of Tin Pan Alley standards and jazz classics by Gershwin, Ellington, Berlin, Carmichael, Waller, Porter, et al. A powerful force on stage as well as on her CDs on the Swing Out label, her enthusiasm and showmanship are highlighted by her wide range and versatility. |
| December 27, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $30 ERNIE ANDREWS 81ST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONHe is in essence, the last of those true jazz singers from an era where a swagger in one's persona was the way of the times in a man's world. Today, the swagger is as desirable as ever, but the mainstream media has redirected teens and the masses to other genres of music. Nonetheless, jazz has withstood the test of time, and has survived the worst of times. Ernie Andrews has a style of swing that goes back to a time when gentlemen were just that and ladies adored their men. Andrews carries an air of class that is rarely seen today. His saucy style, presence and general manner reflect his debonaire personality and life experience. In short, he is a well-seasoned entertainer who is a consummate professional. His work ethic and personal commitment is parallel to such jazz greats as Billy Eckstine, Walter Brown, Kenny Burrell, and Duke Ellington. Andrews, like many, praises Ellington for his enormous contribution to the world of music and jazz. You can hear the love and respect Andrews has for Duke when he performs the Ellington Tribute Medley: Satin Doll / I Got It Bad / Take The A Train. He brings these Ellington tunes to life like no other and you know if Duke were here, he'd be smiling from ear to ear! Written By Chad Carter
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| December 28, 2008, 8:00 and 9:30pm $25 RICKY HOPKINS URBAN BANDMr Hopkins recieved many honors as a youth; top soloist at the Monterey Jazz Festival; Downbeat Magazine Student Award, ranked as the best young tenor saxophonist. In October 2005, Hopkins was severly beaten in a hate crime. After two months of recovery, Hopkins picked up his horn and got back at it. "I would say that was the rebirth of my music career. I think it inspired me to play music that was meaningful." |
December 28, 2008, Matinee 4pm $25 THE “BIG ENOUGH” BAND | |
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