DANILO PEREZ, JOHN PATITUCCI, ADAM CRUZ TRIO

As a solo artist and as a collaborator with jazz giants from Dizzy Gillespie to Wayne Shorter, for over three decades Grammy-Award Winning Panamanian Pianist-Composer Danilo Pérez has been lauded as one of the most creative forces in contemporary music. With Jazz as the anchoring foundation, Pérez’s Global Jazz music is a blend of Panamanian roots, Latin American folk music, West African rhythms, European impressionism – promoting music as a borderless and multidimensional bridge between all people. Since 1993 Pérez has released twelve albums which have earned him critical acclaim, and numerous accolades around the world. He is a recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award in 2021, the United States Fellowship 2018, and the 2009 Smithsonian Legacy Award.

For nearly two decades, Pérez performed alongside bassist John Patitucci as the pianist and key collaborator of the Wayne Shorter Quartet. The quartet became known for an almost telepathic way of communicating musically, winning the Best Jazz Instrumental Album Grammy Award in 2019 for Blue Note Records release, EMANON. Patitucci first came to worldwide acclaim in the mid-1980s, when his work with Chick Corea helped put him at the forefront of the jazz world. Patitucci has recorded and performed throughout the world with his own band and with countless jazz luminaries, pop, and classical artists.

Drummer, composer, and educator Adam Cruz was born in New York City and has been a vital creative force on the international jazz scene. He leads his own group, is an integral part of renowned pianist Danilo Pérez’s trio, and regularly works with artists such as Tom Harrell, The Mingus Big Band, Joey Calderazzo, Chris Potter, Steve Wilson and Edward Simon. Adam currently teaches at CCNY and the Berklee Global Jazz Institute.

*Please Note: All 7PM and 9PM shows at Smoke are Dinner Shows

Tickets: $25 | $30 | $40 | $45 – Wednesday & Thursday, $35 | $40 | $50 | $55 -Friday & Sunday, $35 | $50 | $60 | $65 – Saturday

 

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Leroy ‘Cash’ Maxey was born on June 6, 1904 in Kansas City, Missouri, of mixed Native American heritage. He grew up receiving a musical education from Major N. Clark Smith, father of future tubist Jimmy Smith, with whom he was a student at Kansas City’s Lincoln High School. He was also in good company there with trombonist E.B. DePriest Wheeler, trumpeter Lammar Wright, trumpeter Harry Cooper, saxophonist Eli Logan, tubist Jasper ‘Jap’ Aallen, and bassist Walter Page.

Maxey’s first musical steps were in marching bands and then he made his first appearance as one of Dave Lewis’ Jazz Boys in 1917 and for the next three years held the drum seat in the spetet. This eventually evolved into the Dave Lewis Orchestra.

Throughout his career he hwld membership in the Andy Preer And The Cotton Club Orchestra, Cab Calloway And His Cotton Club Orchestra, Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, Chu Berry And His Stompy Stevedores, and The Missourians. Being a percssionist, during the Roaring Twenties, Leroy added the xylophone to his arsenal of instruments, although he never recorded playing it.

Drummer Leroy Maxey, notable for his use of the bass drum pedal and his four-to-the-floor technique, died on July 24, 1987 in Los Angeles, California.

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ULYSSES OWENS JR.

Three time GRAMMY™ Award-Winning Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr., known for being a drummer who (The New York Times) has said “take[s] a back seat to no one,” and “a musician who balances excitement gracefully and shines with innovation.” Generation Y is a band concept that was conceived back in 2019 with the goal promoting the next generation of dynamic talent from the top music conservatories in NYC and beyond.

Led by Ulysses Owens Jr. who is also a producer, educator, author and cultural entrepreneur, he has been the driving force behind such great artists as Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Wynton Marsalis, Mulgrew Miller, Joey Alexander and many others. Through his relationship with these great bandleaders he learned of the legacy of Art Blakey and Betty Carter, both of whom were renowned for their own bands (which became educational institutions) and launched the careers of many of today’s paradigm-shifting musicians on the jazz scene.

Show Ticket $25 – $30 Dinner is required with all reservations. 6:30 PM SHOW – DINNER RESERVATIONS FROM 5:15 PM *9:00 PM SHOW – DINNER RESERVATIONS FROM 8:00 PM

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CHANDA LEIGH

Vocalist and pianist Chanda Leigh brings her quartet to the Cafe I Am Lounge for a night of jazz.

The Band: Chanda Leigh ~ Piano | Joe Jennings ~ Saxophone | Anthony Daniel ~ Bass | Bernard Linnette

Tickets: $35.00

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Ralph Humphrey was born on May 11, 1944 in Berkeley California. While still a student at California State College Northridge he recorded with the Don Ellis Big Band in 1968, and stayed with the band until 1973.

Leaving Don Ellis and jazz he joined Frank Zappa’s band in 1973 and his drumming can be heard on at least a dozen albums. Humphrey, never far from jazz, played drums for Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, and Manhattan Transfer, as well aas pop stars Barbra Streisand, José Feliciano, Bette Midler, Captain and Tenille, Richard Carpenter. His music has been heard in television series such as American Idol, Charmed, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and more.

As an educator he has taught the drum curriculum at the Los Angeles Music Academy. He and Joe Porcaro created the drum program for the Percussion Institute of Technology, a part of the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. Between 1980 and 1996 he taught the program and headed the department.

Drummer Ralph Humphrey, whose name has been spelled differently in some credits as Humphry or Humphries, continues to perform, record, tour and educate.

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