OSCAR PETERSON CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
August 15, 2025 marks the occasion of the “Maharajah of the Keyboard” Oscar Peterson’s 100th birthday. For the occasion of his centennial and to commemorate his long history with Birdland, there will be celebrations for Peterson’s birthday week both at Birdland Jazz Club and the Birdland Theater.
Three legends of jazz will have their first ever musical meeting on the Birdland stage. Makoto Ozone, John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton will be coming together to celebrate their friend, colleague and mentor, Oscar Peterson, with a variety of music featuring selections from both his musical catalogue and their own as well as beloved standards that celebrate the swinging rhythms of the jazz tradition that OP represents.
Featuring:
Makoto Ozone ~ piano
John Clayton ~ bass
Jeff Hamilton ~ drums
Cover: $45.76 ~ $56.06
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NICOLE HENRY
Nicole Henry is a jazz vocalist out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her debut release, The Nearness of You received critical acclaim and earned Henry the “Best New Jazz Artist” award by HMV Japan and landed on most jazz radio playlists in the United States. Henry’s Teach Me Tonight reached #1 in Japan and was named HMV Japan’s Best Vocal Jazz Album of 2005. She won the 2013 Soul Train Music Award for Best Traditional Jazz Performance.
She has recorded eight albums to date with her latest Time to Love Again hit the online shelf in 2021. She continually performs around the States. From classic jazz to classic soul, and a sprinkling of everything in between, Nicole Henry will perform material including “A Lot of Living to Do,” “You Taught My Heart to Sing,” and more.
Cover: $45.76
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
D C DowDell was born on August 9, 1951 in Southern California and studied Music Education at UCLA and earned a Masters of Music Composition at University of North Texas. He has been influenced by Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Kenny Baron and Herbie Hancock. His style and piano technique blends the fine inner voicings of modal with the highly energetic impressions of the avante garde.
He has appeared with Bobby Vinton, Marilyn McCoo and Rosemary Clooney just to name a few. His passion for jazz led him to composing and arranging charts for top vocalists, solo instrumental artists and orchestra. His influences are Gil Evans, Bob Florence and George Russell.
Pianist D C DowDell moved to Ocean Beach, California where he continually plays locally with jazz ensembles and teaches jazz theory and composition at A Passion for Jazz! Music Studios. He first published his Basic Musicianship in 1993, a primary music reference and theory text.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Vinnie Dean was born Vincent Nicholas diVittorio on August 8, 1929 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was primarily an alto saxophonist, but also played flute and piccolo.
After World War II he played in New York City with Shorty Sherock and Johnny Bothwell, and recorded with Charlie Spivak and Charlie Barnet in the late 1940s. The 1950s saw him playing with Elliot Lawrence, Stan Kenton, Ralph Burns, and Eddie Bert, recording with all of them.
He was less active from the late-1950s, but still performed or recorded later in his career with Hal McKusick, Ray McKinley, Urbie Green, Sal Salvador, and Benny Goodman, as well as returning to play with Lawrence and Barnet.
From the 1960s onward he was involved in the music business, operating a publishing outlet, a booking agency, a recording studio, and a vinyl shop. Alto saxophonist Vinnie Dean died in Danbury, Connecticut on September 14, 2010 at the age of 81.
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The Jazz Voyager
Having taken off from JFK in New York, this Jazz Voyager is nine hours into the fourteen hour flight to Tokyo, Japan. Give or take should be landing around one in the afternoon at Haneda Airport with a short drive to the center of the city and one of the moderate hotels within walking distance of the Blue Note Tokyo. First time in the city exploration is on the menu and learning to get around while seeing the sights and sounds alter from day to night is rewarding.
This evening, four-time Grammy-winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and Grammy-nominated vocalist Christie Dashiell resurrects Max Roach’s 1960 We Insist release and reimagines his timeless anthem Freedom Day. The single highlights Carrington’s lifelong mission to champion jazz and advocate for inclusivity and raise the voice of women, hence Dashiell supplanting Abbey Lincoln voice.
With a cover of ¥ 10,000 | $67.32, the evening is eagerly anticipated to see how these two ladies update the classic suite.
Blue Note Tokyo is located at 6 Chome-3-16 Minamiaoyama Minato City 107-0062. For more information contact the venue at https://www.bluenote.co.jp/jp.
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