CABARET TONIGHT - BOSTON / WASHINGTON DC AREAS
BOSTON: GRACE KELLY AT SCULLERS
Singer/saxaphonist Grace Kelly will perform atSCULLERS JAZZ CLUB(400 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA - 617-562-4111 - ) on Friday, October 11th with shows at 8:00 & 10:00 pm. When it comes to saxophonist / vocalist / composer / lyricist / arranger Grace Kelly, people seem tobe divided into two groups: those who marvel at her proficiency, creativity and ever-accelerating growth, and those who have yet to encounter the 19-year-old wunderkind. The ranks of the former category are growing by the day. Kelly has been voted "Best Jazz Act" in Boston three consecutive years in the FNX/Phoenix Best Music Poll, received the ASCAP Foundation's Young Jazz Composers Award in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011 and won "Jazz Artist of the Year" at the Boston Music Awards in both 2008 and 2010. The 2009, and 2010, Downbeat Critics Poll added to her list naming her one of the "Alto Saxophone Rising Stars", the youngest ever to be named so. Dinner/Show: $65 Show only: $25.
MARYLAND: LAVAY SMITH & HER RED HOT SKILLET LICKERS
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers will perform at BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ SUPPER CLUB (7719 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD - 240-330-4500 - ) on Fridat, October 11th at 8:00 pm. Sultry chanteuse Lavay Smith evokes a sensuous era of glamorous Jazz divas and sexy pinups adding a modern, feminist twist. Whether singing her own compositions or drawing on a large repertoire of classics, Lavay and her all-star 8-piece band bake up an instant recipe for good times. Lavay Smith, vocalist and bandleader of the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, grew up in Southern California and the Philippines. She has become known as a modern day Jazz and Blues diva with a singing style influenced by Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith and Little Esther Phillips. Her enticing stage style is a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page. There is a $25 cover.
D.C.: MICKEY BASS AND HIS MANHATTAN BURN UNIT
Mickey Bass and his Manhattan Burn Unit will perform at BOHEMIAN CAVERNS (2001 Eleventh Street N.W., Washington, DC - 202-299-0800 - ) on Friday & Saturday, October 11th & 12th with shows at 8:30 & 10:30 pm. Lee O. (Mickey) Bass III is a Bass Violinist, Composer, Arranger, Producer who's professional career includes working and touring with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers off and on from 1964 through 1973. Lee worked and toured with Gloria Lynne from 1965 through 1972 most of the time as her musical director and subsequently arranged, composed, and conducted ten compositions for Gloria Lynne. Mickey also worked and toured with Carmen McCrae in 1967, and worked and toured with Billy Eckstine 1968 through 1969. He played and recorded with David Amram, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Kenny Dorham, Joe Henderson, Ray Bryant, Sonny Stitt, Jackie McLean, and Miriam Makeba. There is a $25 cover.
D.C.: ROY HARGROVE AT BLUES ALLEY
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