Christian Sands - Piano Marvin Sewell - Guitar Yasushi Nakamura - Bass Ryan Sands - Drums Christian Sands is an American jazz pianist and composer. Sands was mentored by pianist Billy Taylor, who allowed the teenager to close one of the sets that Taylor played at the Kennedy Center. Sands went on to study at the […]
Alex LoRe – alto saxophone John Ellis – tenor saxophone Marta Sánchez – piano Harish Raghavan – bass JK Kim – drums Pianist and composer Marta Sánchez, originally from Madrid, leads her acclaimed quintet with saxophonists Alex LoRe and John Ellis, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer JK Kim. Sánchez has gained significant global recognition and […]
Grammy-nominated piano master Christian Sands has earned raves for two decades! At only 32, sophisticated jazz pianist/composer Christian Sands is arguably the leading jazz pianist of his generation. This former child prodigy – who began lessons a four years old and gigging at seven – has more than lived up to his early promise. He […]
Graduating from some of the nations most prestigious jazz programs, Satterthwaite earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas in Jazz Piano Performance, a Master of Arts in Commercial Music from Florida Atlantic University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Miami. Satterthwaite is an Assistant Professor of […]
Earlybird Show | 6:30pm ~ 8:30pm Lex Korten (p) | Dave Adewumi (tp) | Carmen Rothwell (b) | Connor Parks (d) Jazz Dialogue Open Jam | 9:00pm ~ 12:00am Asaf Yuria (ts) | Brian Charette (org)| Jimmy Macbride (d)
Monty Alexander O.J.: "Honoring Harry Belafonte" with Luke Sellick & Jason Brown From Kingston, Jamaica, his hometown, Grammy nominated pianist Monty Alexander is an American classic, touring the world relentlessly with various projects, delighting a global audience drawn to his vibrant personality and soulful message. A perennial favorite at Jazz festivals and venues worldwide and […]
Obscure standards: Tunes from the 20th century that you never knew you needed to hear. Robert Bohall piano Robert Lassila bass Nik Barber drums Robert Bohall is a recent graduate of the Masters of Music in Jazz Studies program at University of Oregon, while Nik Barber and Robert Lassila have one year left in the same program. Young and hungry, these […]
Special Guests: Dee Dee Bridgewater & Nicholas Payton “There are certain gigs that remind you why you fell in love with jazz in the first place. Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and pianomeister Bill Charlap did just that Friday night at Catalina’s,” wrote Jazz Weekly following a 2022 performance at the famed LA jazz club. The NEA Jazz […]
With Noriko Ueda and Carl Allen The present – and future – of jazz piano convenes on the stage that has hosted legends of the art form from Thelonious Monk to Hank Jones to Chick Corea. Jazz in July artistic director Bill Charlap is joined by a dynamic virtuoso of modern jazz piano, the sublimely talented […]
MOTOWN REIMAGINED! 27 #1 hits, over 60 top 10 hits. Motown had so many hits that one could put together five separate shows of their music and still have plenty of songs left over. The exemplary songwriting of Smokey Robinson, Holland/Dozier/Holland, as well as Berry Gordy himself, along with the interpretation by such legends as […]