EUGENIE JONES
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
The Kookaburra Lounge presents international fan-based singer-songwriter Eugenie Jones in an evening of original jazz and reimagined jazz and soul classics from her #4 Jazz Week charted album – Eugenie! Hip, slick musical accompaniment provided by LA’s Charles Love on piano, Jeff Littleton on bass & Akira Yamada on drums.
Known for her dynamic stage presence and passionate singing style, Jones has established herself as one of our time’s most evocative, powerful, and compelling jazz artists. In a recent review, Paris Move USA correspondent Thierry De Clemensat described Jones as “one of the most beautiful voices in the United States.”
LA Jazz Scene/Scott Yanow describes Jones saying she is, “..a powerful singer whose vocalizing explores the soulful side of jazz.”
Former John Coltrane bassist and NEA JAZZ MASTER Reggie Workman refers to Jones as…”An extraordinary singer-songwriter.”
Tickets:
General Admission ~ $25.00 + $5.00 fee | Early General Admission Seating ~ $35.00 + $5.00 fee | VIP ~ $90.00 (Front Row Table for 2) + $8.00 fee
Party Booth ~ $40.00 per person (seats 2-10) + $5.00 fee | VIP Couch ~ $250.00 (seats 5) + $15.00 fee | Katie’s Booth ~ $300.00 (seats 5) + $15.00 fee
~ 2 Drink Minimum | Wine, Alcohol & Non-Alcoholic beverages
~ Parking is $3 in the Ovation Garage with validation.
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LAVAHI
Lavahi is a scholar-artist on a mission to better society from the inside out. Through her music, scholarship, and performance, she is building a platform to nourish the heart and mind, empathize our human experiences, and vibe together. As a daughter of jazz, the culture heavily informs her ideology and influences her sound. Acrobatic scatting, compelling chords, and the art of improvisation evoke that classic traditional aesthetic and set her contemporary sound apart from the norm of mainstream neo-soul, hip hop, and R&B. And with her satisfying blend of analog and digital sounds, Lavahi shows that the lineage of Black sound is not linear but ever folding and stretching.
She produces, plays flute and piccolo, and arranges. She has added her unique sound to national and international projects in genres varying from rap to film scores to alternative. Lavahi loves the studio and feels most natural when recording independently; but her second home is the collaborative live performance of the stage. She has been featured at venues such as Blues Alley, Bethesda Blues and Jazz, Kat’s Cafe, Porter-Sanford III, St. James Live!, City Winery, and more, and she has even stepped into the world of acting via musicals and stage plays.
Cover: $25.00
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MARCUS MILLER, TANK & THE BANGAS, SOUL REBELS, DJ LOGIC
The opening of our free concert series, SummerStage and long standing programming partner, Blue Note Jazz Festival, has assembled a group of performers that stretch the boundaries of jazz and funk to incorporate the wide variety of African Diaspora sounds. “Laid Black” multi-instrumentalist Marcus Miller has collaborated closely with artists who can be called legends without any hyperbole: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Luther Vandross, Wayne Shorter, and David Sanborn– to name a few.
The two-time GRAMMY winning artist’s chops are deadly serious, but he still knows how to keep it loose, counting “Da Butt,” the tongue-in-cheek anthem from Spike Lee’s School Daze, among his impressive songwriting credits. The evening also features two New Orleans-based SummerStage alumni: Tank and the Bangas, the NPR Tiny Desk contest-winning ensemble that fuses funk, soul, hip-hop, rock, and spoken-word poetry into an unforgettable performance, fresh off a GRAMMY win for leading lady Tank’s spoken word album; and The Soul Rebels, an eight-piece ensemble revolutionizing the conventional brass band framework to inject new life into sounds from across the pop spectrum. DJ Logic will be on the ones and twos between sets.
Cover: Free
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Horace Kirby Dowell, known professionally as Saxie, was born on May 24, 1904 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Attending the University of North Carolina he met Hal Kemp and joined Kemp’s orchestra as a tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist and vocalist in the fall of 1925.
He composed I Don’t Care, which was recorded by Kemp for Brunswick in 1928. When the band’s style changed in the early 1930s to that of a dance band, Dowell became the group’s comedic vocalist for novelty songs. After Three Little Fishies became a hit in 1939, Dowell was involved in a legal dispute with lyricists Josephine Carringer and Bernice Idins. In 1940 he wrote the song Playmates.
Dowell left Kemp and started a big band in 1940. Drafted during World War II he served as a bandleader aboard an aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Franklin. He went on to record for Brunswick, Sonora, and Victor. Around 1946 he led a naval air station band with 14-year-old Keely Smith as a singer.
>After the war he reunited his orchestra, performing mostly in Chicago, Illinois. In 1949 he became a disc jockey for WGN radio in Chicago, and retired in the late 1950s. He moved to Scottsdale, Arizona and worked as a disc jockey part-time for KTAR in Phoenix during his retirement.
Saxophonist and vocalist Saxie Dowell died on July 22, 1974 in Scottsdale.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Hanna Richardson was born on May 16,1956 in Alexandria, Virginia and as the daughter of a foreign service officer, much of her childhood was spent overseas. At the age of seven, while living in South America, she began piano lessons and also sang at home with the family. 1965 saw her father retiring to Geneva, New York where she met bass player Phil Flanigan while in high school.
College saw her singing professionally, first rock and folk music, then hearing an Ella Fitzgerald record she turned to singing jazz. However, it was the singing style of Maxine Sullivan that was to have the greatest impact upon her. After college, Richardson moved to Rochester, New York and continued to pursue her interest in both folk music and jazz and she also taught herself to play the mandolin.
A move to Syracuse, New York had her working at Syracuse University and becoming Assistant Dean in the School of Management. She sang professionally during this period as a session back-up singer. Connecting again with Flanigan who had toured and recorded with Sullivan, and began singing with him. They married and recorded their debut album, Something To Remember You By, in 2002.
Vocalist Hanna Richardson, who has released a half dozen albums, continues to regionally perform, record and educate.