ROY BEN BASHAT
New York City-based guitarist, composer, producer, and songwriter Roy Ben Bashat is a rising star who has already achieved much in his young, burgeoning career.
Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ben Bashat has started his professional career at the age of 15, performing locally at the Jazz scene in Israel, while attending the prestigious Thelma Yellin High School of the arts. At the age of 17, he was offered a full scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, which he excepted. Shortly after relocating to Boston, Ben Bashat started recording with Grammy- winner Darren Barrett and performing with award- winning Noah Preminger, performing weekly at the legendary Wally’s Cafe Jazz Club, and touring around the world with different projects.
After studying production at Berklee, Ben Bashat started producing his own music, releasing demos and live sessions on YouTube and SoundCloud, and soon to be a full-length album, which he will release under all digital platforms. In his music, Ben Bashat is exploring new and exciting ways to navigate sounds, through the influences of lyricism, Jazz, Folk, and Buddhism.
Currently, Ben Bashat is based in Brooklyn, NYC, performing locally and touring internationally with his most recent project “Songs From Self Retreat”, as well as collaborating with other artists.
Notable Collaborators include Luis Perdomo, Noah Preminger, Darren Barrett, Eric McPherson, Lex Korten, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, and Fernando Michelin.
Dubbed as “an incredible young talent that plays with so much patience and maturity” by Jazziz magazine, RoyBB has already performed on some of the most notable stages in the world, including the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), the Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel), Webster Hall (NYC), Cambridge Jazz Festival (Cambridge, MA), Small’s Jazz Club (NYC), and Sanders Theatre (Boston, MA)
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LADIES OF JAZZ
Join one of Nashville’s favorite shows Wendy Burns Music’s Ladies of Jazz Show on Veteran’s Day Eve, the November edition features a theme of 1940’s USO tour, music of the 1940’s and beyond. Wendy Burns Music’s LADIES OF JAZZ SHOW… “It’s a Nashville Show to See”. Featuring an exciting lineup of talent, Rudy’s Jazz Room’s “Ladies of Jazz” showcase presents Nashville’s favorite female vocalists collaborating together, displaying a variety of original and distinct vocal talent, backed by some of Nashville’s best and well known musicians. Harmonies of the Andrew sisters and jokes and just a gosh darn happy time. Come join us and see the show series that people are loving and talking about.
Wendy Burns
Nashville’s 2022 Inducted member Academy of Local Musicians Hall of Fame and 2023 & 2024 Mississippi Music Foundations Best Female Jazz vocalists of the year.
Flute playing jazz vocalist Wendy Burns of Nashville TN has studied and performed songs from the 1940’s Jazz Big Band era since the age of 9 years old. She has been described as having a unique voice that fits the era. She has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and has sessioned and performed with many of the Nashville classic country greats. With a deep passion for jazz standards, and as a hopeless romantic, Wendy believes there’s beauty in staying true to the melodies as they were written. Her set list includes songs from the “Great American Songbook”, jazz standards, and a number of her fabulous original pieces that reminisce of cherished jazz classics you’ve never heard. Wendy’s influences are Judy Garland, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, The Andrew Sisters, and Helen Forrest, to name a few. You will also hear some of her original tunes in vaudeville fashion featuring “Grover” her ukulele.
Mimi Clay
Newly Mimi Clay and formerly Mimi Klipstine grew up in tiny West Milton, Ohio singing with amazing pianists such as David Wion and Betty Lou Johansen. She attended Interlochen Arts Camp and then went on to graduate from the Academy. Next, she graduated with a B.F.A. in Acting with a Musical Theatre Emphasis from Wright State University and is a two-time recipient of the renowned Stephen Schwartz Scholarship awarded by The Human Race Theatre Company. She was a featured vocalist in An Evening with Leslie Uggams — a concert filmed for PBS, has performed her solo show You’re GonnaHear from Mimi at The Duplex in New York City, and has sungat The Bitter End multiple times. She’s had countless performance adventures. Some credits include She Loves Me (Ilona Ritter), Funny Girl (Fanny Brice), Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney), Guys and Dolls (Miss Adelaide), Into the Woods (Witch), and Sunday in the Park with George.
Abigail Flowers
Abigail Flowers is a Nashville-based jazz vocalist and Lanikai Ukuleles artist. Drawing on vocal influences like Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, and Nat King Cole, her vocal style is smooth and precise. She frequently performs in as many languages as possible, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Hawaiian.
After graduating from Belmont University with a degree in commercial vocal performance, she worked as a vocalist at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan for several seasons. Abigail has recorded in collaboration with producers like Charlie Peacock and Cody Fry, and her vocal arrangements have garnered over 1.5 million streams on Spotify.
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THE HOSCHAR-PALMIERI QUINTET
Akron based drummer Drew Hoschar returns home from NYC. The Hoschar-Palmieri Quintet is a 5-piece jazz combo of the young rising stars of the Ohio jazz scenes pursuing jazz degrees at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Cincinatti’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Both originally from northeast Ohio, drummer Drew Hoschar co-band leads with saxophonist Colin Palmieri for a night of fresh, original music, tasteful modern arrangements, and timeless classics with a band of young, heavy-hitting Cincinnati natives featuring Evan Taylor on guitar, Alex Nicodemus on piano, and Jack Early on bass.
Drew Hoschar – drums and cymbals
Colin Palmeri – alto saxophone
Evan Taylor – guitar
Alex Nicodemus – piano
Jack Early – bass
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SIGNAL QUARTET
Defying easy categorization, Signal Quartet brings together a variety of disparate strains from the jazz continuum to create a distinctive group sound. Incorporating the freewheeling adventurousness of the avant garde, the improvisational combustibility of post-bop, and the spaciousness and lyricism innate to the American Midwest; Signal Quartet can reach young and old, purists and radicals, aficionados and neophytes alike through their thoughtful compositions and unpredictable improvisations.
Personnel:
Ben Wolkins – Trumpet, Flugelhorn,
Ian Blunden – Guitar
Eric Nachtrab – Bass
Sean Perlmutter – Drums
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Ben Pollack was born on June 22, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois and learned to play drums in high school. He formed groups on the side, performing professionally in his teens. He joined the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in Chicago in 1923 and later went out to Los Angeles, California and joined Harry Bastin Band.
In 1924, returning to Chicago he played for several bands including Art Kessel. That association led to his forming Ben Pollack and His Californians, the 12-piece Venice Ballroom Orchestra in 1925. He had some performances broadcast on WLW radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over time the band included Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Jimmy McPartland and Gil Rodin. From about 1928, with involvement from Irving Mills, members of Pollack’s band moonlighted at Plaza-ARC and recorded a vast quantity of hot dance and jazz for their dime store labels.
His band played in Chicago and moved to New York City in 1928, having obtained McPartland and Teagarden around that time. This outfit enjoyed immense success, playing for Broadway shows and winning an exclusive engagement at the Park Central Hotel. Pollack’s band was involved in extensive recording activity at that time, using a variety of pseudonyms in the studios. The orchestra also made a Vitaphone short subject sound film.
Fancying himelf more as a bandleader-singer type he signed Ray Bauduc to handle the drumming chores. They became known as Ben Pollack and his Park Central Orchestra. When Benny Goodman and Jimmy McPartland left the band in mid-1929. They were replaced by Matty Matlock on clarinet and Jack Teagarden’s brother, Charlie, on trumpet and tenor saxophonist Eddie Miller in 1930. Five years later the band broke up.
Pollack formed a new band with Harry James and Irving Fazola, the former with whom he wrote the hit “Peckin'”. In the early 1940s, he organized a band led by comedian Chico Marx, started Jewel Records, opened restaurants in Hollywood and Palm Springs, and appeared as himself in the movie The Benny Goodman Story, and made a cameo in The Glenn Miller Story.
Drummer Ben Pollack, who appeared in five films in the late Forties and Fifties, suffered a series of financial losses, grew despondent and hanged himself in his home in Palm Springs on June 7, 1971.
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