Yolanda Rabun is a Renaissance Woman. A wife, mother, corporate lawyer, and national recording and performing artist, this North Carolina based go-getter lives life on purpose.
RON JACKSON
World-renowned, seven string jazz guitarist, composer and arranger, Ron Jackson has performed, recorded, and taught music in over 30 countries. Jackson has had a strong career as a music artist, putting out 10 albums as a leader. His most recent CD, “Standards And My Songs,” was Top 10 on the USA JazzWeek radio charts, featuring his second recording as a leader on the seven-string. He has performed as a leader at jazz events all over the world, such as the North Sea Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and most recently, the inaugural AAPI Jazz Festival in Newark, and Super Jazz Ashdod in Israel.
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HENDRIK MEURKENS
Jazz harmonica virtuoso and composer Hendrik Meurkens began his career in Germany playing vibraphone. At age 19, he heard Toots Thielemans play harmonica, which totally changed his musical life. His career has taken him from Germany to Brazil, then throughout the European continent and eventually to the US. In 1992, a trip to California led to his signing with the prestigious Concord label and established him as the first major new voice on the harmonica since Toots Thielemans. His 30 albums have received rave reviews and strong airplay, and established his immediately recognizable style of Brazilian Jazz. In 2014 he won the Brazilian International Press Award and he has been listed repeatedly in the Downbeat and JazzTimes Polls. Meurkens has recorded and performed with Ray Brown, Paquito D’Rivera, Astrud Gilberto and many others.
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ERIC PERSON QUARTET
Acclaimed saxophonist Eric Person makes a strong impression live and on recordings. Person has worked with leaders within the vanguard of the jazz world namely McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland, Chico Hamilton, John Hicks, Will Calhoun, Wallace Roney, and many others. Eric’s work as a leader is stylistically diverse and intrepid. His 2022 release “Blue Vision” features his collaboration with tenor saxophone titan Houston Person. And critics have taken note of Eric’s signature sound on alto and soprano saxophone.
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The Jazz Voyager
Flying back to the West Coast and landing in that city by the bay to drive across the Golden Gate to Oakland to once again be a part of the audience at Yoshi’s with great expectations for another evening of great music.
This Jazz Voyager has a penchant for that side of our country. It’s a little over an hour from Napa Valley vineyards for those of you who want a little wine tasting excursion and a thirty minute drive to Muir Woods for some solitude to one of my favorite nature stopoffs.
This week I’ll be catching a musician I haven’t seen in a couple of decades and looking forward to seeing what new he has to offer. Grammy and Emmy winning pianist and composer Robert Glasper is taking the spotlight and bringing his new group Dinner Party with Terrace Martin, Kamasi Washington and 9th Wonder.
Yoshi’s is located at 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA 94607. For more information visit yoshis.com.
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YOLANDA RABUN TRIBUTE TO NANCY WILSON
For two nights only the holiday season will honor the contributions of songstress Nancy Wilson as songs are interpreted by the great North Carolina-based singer Yolanda Rabun, while the story of her life is told by Jazz Historian Carl Anthony.
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