DUDUKA DA FONSECA & BRAZILIAN ALL STARS

Duduka Da Fonseca & Brazilian All Stars: Samba Jazz & Bossa Nova

Special Guest: Maucha Adnet – voice

Featuring:
Billy Drewes – sax & flute
Helio Alves – piano
Peter Washington – bass
Duduka Da Fonseca – drums

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duduka Da Fonseca is a 4-time Grammy Award nominated drummer. He has appeared on over 250 albums alongside American Jazz icons as well as Brazilian Jazz Icons, including 25 albums as a leader/co-leader, making him one of the most recorded Brazilian drummers in this idiom.

Also born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Maucha Adnet started singing professionally at age 15 as part of vocal group Céu da Boca, from 1978 to 1984. With Céu da Boca, Maucha toured around Brazil and recorded two albums released by Polygram. From 1984 until 1994, Maucha performed all over the world with legendary composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and that’s how she ended up in New York, where she has been living since 1987.

Showtimes:

Streaming: Fri, Sat, November 4~5, 7:30 pm
$10 + $1.70 fee

Live: Fri, Sat, November 4~5, 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm
$35 – $45 + $3.46 – $4.16 fee

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BELA DONA

Washington DC is the birthplace of this exciting and diverse all-female band.The high-energy concert style presentation and dynamic musicianship exuded on stage is the selling point of these phenomenal ladies.

Their unique style of Funk, Jazz, R&B and Rock command an impressive drawing power attracting many beloved fans and local promoters. Individually, each band member has toured with various national artists such as Nile Rodgers(Chic), Pieces of a Dream, Chuck Brown, High Five, EU, Salt & Pepa, Pleasure, Stephanie Mills, Ginuwine, Crystal Waters, and many others.

Vocals: Sweet Cherie ~ MD/Keys, Karis Hill ~ MC, Kim Scott; Chella Davis; Taylor Gamble ~ Guitar; Shannon Browne ~ Drums; Tempest “Storm” Thomas ~ Bass, Claudia”Kool Keys”Rodgers ~ Keys; Natarsha Proctor ~ Percussion

Actual Showtime:

Streaming: Thu, July 28, 7:30 PM | $10 + $1.70 fee

Live: Thu, July 28, 7:30 PM | $30 – $35 + $3.10 – $3.46 fee

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CHARLES WILSON QUINTET

Charles Wilson – Drums
Hope Udobi – Piano
Theljon Allen – Trumpet
Elijah Easton -sax
Mike Saunders – bass

Charles “Charlie” Wilson is a drummer, pianist and bass guitar player. He started playing music at the age of 5, where he began taking lessons taught by Orlando Cotto at Nathan Carter’s School of Music in Baltimore. He attended Archbishop Curley High School under a music scholarship where he won several awards such as the North Texas Jazz Festival Outstanding Soloist Award and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award. As a teen working under the City’s Youth Works Program, he was assigned at Paul L. Dunbar High School’s Music Program where he worked under the leadership of one of the greatest educators and musicians of all times, Charles Funn.

Actual Show Times:

Streaming: Wed, July 6, 7:30 PM | $10 + $1.70 fee

Live: Wed, July 6, 7:30 PM | $20 – $25 + $2.40 – $2.76 fee

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JOE FARNSWORTH/MARK WHITFIELD TIME TO SWING QUARTET

Joe Farnsworth/Mark Whitfield TIME TO SWING Quartet

One of the most highly regarded jazz drummers on the scene today, Joe Farnsworth is known for his blazing speed, precision, musical, and melodic playing.

Joe Farnsworth~drums,

Mark Whitfield~guitar,

Peter Washington~bass

Julius Rodriguez~piano

Streaming Pass ~ $10.00

Shows: 7:30 & 10:00 pm each night

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Daily Dose Of Jazz…

Joseph A. Venuto, Jr. was born on  June 20, 1929 in Bronx, New York into an Italian immigrant family where he received his first drum kit from his grandfather. Having had lessons with Henry Adler, he moved on to Phil Kraus to learn mallet percussion. After earning a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, he became a member of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, with whom he made his first recordings Doodletown Races on the RCA label in 1953. He was a featured soloist with the orchestra on Solo for Joe and Swingcussion. The DownBeat Reader’s Poll voted him the best vibraphonist that year.

From the mid-1950s, Venuto worked with Billy Byers in the Westchester Workshop, the Kent Harian Orchestra, Bobby Dukoff, and the Johnny Richards Orchestra before joining Radio City Music Hall as a session musician in the recording and television studios. By 1959 he recorded his debut album for Everest Records under his own name.

Between 1953 and 1975 Joe was involved in 104 recording sessions with Jack Teagarden, Kenyon Hopkins, Rex Stewart, The Creed Taylor Orchestra, Irene Kral/Al Cohn Orchestra, Mary Ann McCall, Don Costa, Hal Mooney, Ruth Brown, Gene Krupa and His Orchestra, LaVern Baker, Budd Johnson, Marion Montgomery, Benny Goodman, Shirley Scott, Solomon Burke, Gary McFarland, Johnny Hodges, Hank Jones/Oliver Nelson, and numerous more.

the early 1970s when he was in his Forties, he left New York City and moved to Reno, Nevada. He met, married, performed and recorded with his wife, harpist Bev Colgan, in a harp/vibes duo. Percussionist Joe Venuto, who also played the vibraphone, marimba, bongos and drums, transitioned on Feb. 14, 2019 at age 89.

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