The Jazz Voyager
The Jazz Voyager is landing in Phoenix, Arizona today to check out a performance of the ASA Jazz Ensemble at The Nash located at 110 E. Roosevelt Street 85004. This nine-piece combo of rising jazz musicians will perform hard-swinging jazz, Latin, and funky pieces and even a bit of free jazz with a special tribute to Horace Silver.
Always eager to listen to students who will become the nexte generation of jazz musicians, this voyager will be in attendance at the show starting at 6:30 pm. This time admission is free. This low-key venue is host to jazz shows and open-mike sessions and the evening hits are until 10:00 pm Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Sundays are 6:00-9:00 pm. For more information, the number is 602-795-0464.
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Three Wishes
When presented the question of three wishes to Hank Hayne by Nica he said:
- “Enough money to live.”
- “A good-paying job with a good group.”
- “The people that’s close – I want them to be happy. Now I’ve got everything covered.”
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Requisites
Griff & Lock is an album by saxophonists Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Johnny Griffin recorded in 1960 and released on the Jazzland label. The original sessions were produced by Orrin Keepnews and were recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City on November 4 & 10, 1960. The engineer was Ray Fowler and the cover designs were by Ken Deardoff and Donald Silverstein.
The three studio albums recorded for Jazzland by the aptly named Tough Tenors, Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis, and their calorific Junior Mance-Larry Gales-Ben Riley rhythm section epitomize what this incendiary group was about ~ Swinging! They are at the height of their game together.
Track Listing 1. The Last Train from Overbrook (James Moody) 6:51 2. Hey Lock! (Eddie Davis) 7:56 3. Midnight at Minton’s (Paul Gonzales) 4:20 4. Second Balcony Jump (Gerry Valentine) 5:24 5. I’ll Remember April (Raye-DePaul-Johnston) 6:33 6. Good Bait (Dameron-Basie) 7:39 Personnel Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin Quintet Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Johnny Griffin ~ tenor saxophone Junior Mance ~ piano Larry Gales ~ bass Ben Riley ~ drums
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The Jazz Voyager
The Jazz Voyager is flying off to the Pacific Northwest to sit in on a set at Hermann’s Jazz Club. Located at 753 View Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 1J9, Canada, this restaurant is also a space offering live jazz in a low-key setting. Established in 1981 at the Bastion Inn on Government Street by German entrepreneur Hermann Nieweler, until he moved it to its current corner location in 1986.
The venue has a menu featuring crab cakes, salads, yam fries, mushroom ravioli, gluten-free options, desserts, non-alcoholic beverages, and a full bar. The hours of operation are 5:00 pm to midnight, seven days a week. For more information, the number is +1 250-388-9166.
Jazz voyagers are going to get their ten dollars worth with the Tom Vickery Trio’s jazz jam tonight where one only hopes to catch some of the city’s finest musicians perform.
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Three Wishes
The Baroness inquired of Flip Stewart what he would wish for if he had three wishes and he replied:
- “A good gig, playing with cats I can really stretch out with ~ who cook!”
- “I have a daughter. I wish I could get he set up so things’d be nice for her when she gets ready to go to college. She’s ten and she plays the piano.”
- “I want to get myself straightened out.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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