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CAPE COD, MA: THE CAPE COD CABARET FESTIVAL 2014, PRESENTED BY TEDI MARSH
The Cape Cod Cabaret Festival 2014, presented by Tedi Marsh, will be held atTHE COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS (4404 Route 28 - Falmouth Road - Cotuit, MA - 508-428-0669) on Friday & Saturday, April 25th & 26th at 7:00 pm. Friday night, the 25th, is amateur night and the audience gets to join in the fund by choosing a favorite from the 6 performers presented. After the intermission Tedi Marsh will perform selections from her brand new CD "A Different Road." The album features her original songs from the past 30 years. On Saturday night, the 26th, Tedi will present two amazing cabaret performers, perennial favorite Krisanthi Pappas, and direct from the New York City music scene, Louis Sacco, who will be performing a set with award-winning songwriter Drew Gasparini, whose music has been featured in the NBC musical series "Smash". The previous night's "audience favorite" will have the honor of closing out the show. Both nights will feature the Bart Weisman Trio, with Weisman on drums, Fred Boyle on piano, and Rich Hill on bass. Tickets for each night are $30 - both nights, $50. Premium tables with wine available.
BOSTON: STANLEY JORDAN AT SCULLERS
Guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan will perform at SCULLERS JAZZ CLUB (400 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA - 617-562-4111) on Saturday, April 26th with shows at 8:00 & 10:00 pm. From the moment he made his debut in 1985 with the gold-selling GRAMMY-nominated album Magic Touch, Stanley Jordan has proven himself as a world-class musician who marches in all aspects of his life to the beat of his own drum. With his nimbly executed "touch" or "tap" technique, he ushered a dazzling and spellbinding new sound into the world of progressive instrumental music. Because of the extraordinary originality of his approach to guitar, Jordan has been looked upon first and foremost as a musical original, orbiting in an artistic universe without predecessor or immediate successor. To date he has performed in over 60 countries on 6 continents. Jordan has performed at many festivals, including the Montreaux International Jazz Festival and collaborated with a wide array of artists including Art Blakey and Kenny Rogers. Dinner/Show: $70 Show only: $30.
TORONTO: BEVERLY TAFT MEETS THE NATHAN HILTZ ORCHESTRA: CD LAUNCH
Guitarist Nathan Hiltz and vocalist Beverly Taft's new CD will be released atTHE JAZZ BISTRO (251 Victoria Street, Toronto, ONT, CA - 416-363-5299) on Thursday through Saturday, April 24th through 26th at 9:00 pm. The event is a Toronto Downtown Jazz Special Project Initiative. The CD features 10 of their original jazz and blues songs, with an all-star band playing Nathan's four-horn arrangements. Although some of the themes in these songs are familiar and some are contemporary - ranging from love and loss to urban ennui, pastoral bliss, 1950s courtship, economics in Cuba, and running away to West Virginia! - the music swings, and is very much in the tradition of the jazz standards that Nathan and Beverly have revered and performed for many years. These launch concerts will also include favourite standards from Brasil and the Great American Songbook, in full band and small combo. Nathan is a Juno winning guitarist and composer originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a recipient of the Peter Harris Award for Guitarist of the Year (Humber College), the Duke Ellington Award for Excellence (Humber College), an Ontario Arts Council Recording Grant, and the 2008 Juno for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year (with Brandi Disterheft, for "Debut"). He has appeared on over 20 albums and has performed with the likes of Terry Clarke, Phil Dwyer, Mike Murley, Jill Barber, and Renee Rosnes. Best known for her interpretations of jazz standards, Beverly Taft has performed throughout Ontario, at such venues as Cherry Street Restaurant, Dominion on Queen, Homesmith Bar at The Old Mill, The Montreal Bistro, The Reservoir Lounge, The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar, U of T's "Friday Jazz at Oscar's" Series, and jazz festivals in Barrie, Markham, Muskoka, Orangeville, Orillia, Peterborough, and Southampton, as well as The Celebrate Toronto Street Festival, and the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival - her Bossa Nova Project (in English & Portuguese) has become an annual feature. A multi-linguist, she lived in Japan for two years, performing in small clubs there, and she returned to tour there in 2008. Beverly has always approached music as a storyteller, with a keen interest in the lyrics of each song, and how best to communicate them to an audience. There is a $15 cover.
WASHINGTON, DC: YELLOWJACKETS AT BLUES
The fusion band The Yellowjackets will perform atBLUES ALLEY (1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC - 202-337-4141) on Thursday through Sunday, April 24th through 27th with shows at 8:00 & 10:00 pm. In 1977, Robben Ford assembled a group of veteran session musicians to record his album The Inside Story. The trio of musicians, which included keyboardist Russell Ferrante, bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer Ricky Lawson, soon discovered a certain "chemistry" and musical affinity that led to their formation of Yellowjackets. The band today is Russell Ferrante on keys, Bob Mintzer on sax, William Kennedy on drums and Felix Pastorius on bass. Call for cover/minimum information.
WASHINGTON, DC: ALLYN JOHNSON QUARTET AT BOHEMIAN CAVERNS
The Allyn Johnson Trio (Allyn Johnson - piano, Abbinet Berhanu - drums, Elliot Seppa - bass, Doug Pierce - trumpet) performs at BOHEMIAN CAVERNS (2001 Eleventh Street N.W., Washington, DC - 202-299-0800) on Saturday, April 26th at 8:30 pm. Native Washingtonian, Allyn Johnson is a multi-talented musician, composer, arranger and producer whose trademark sound gives brilliance and fortitude to the art of jazz improvisation. Allyn, a prodigy who began playing piano at the tender age of five, got his start playing piano for the youth choir in his uncle's church. There he honed his inner musical gift. While a student at the University of the District of Columbia, Allyn was mentored by the late great jazz legend Calvin Jones, a venerable figure in the international jazz community. At UDC, Allyn was the first recipient of the Felix. E Grant Scholarship Award in jazz performance. He graduated magna cum laude from UDC in 1997 with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Jazz Studies. Now Allyn has served for more than six years as an adjunct professor of music and assistant director of the Jazz Studies program before succeeding Jones as the director in 2005. There is a $20 cover.
BETHESDA, MD: THE SOUL SERENADERS AT BETHESDA BLUES
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