The TYJE has only raised $5000 of the 25000 it needs to travel to the Essentially Ellington competition in NYC next week. Please go to www.gofundme.com/TYJE2016 to donate. If you need more convincing check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU1x5vvuX-8. There you'll see how good they sound!
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A bit quieter during the week but the weekend heats up, as it should:
Tuesday: According to the Sharp Nine website, only 15 tickets left for the NCJRO there Tuesday night at 8p. If you need big band yayas, it's the place to be. I'm also trying to confirm that the trio Jazzbeau is playing at 2nd Wind in Carrboro 8-9p. Trumpeter Greg Cagle of the Second Line Stompers told me he plays in the group on what seems like serendipitous Tuesdays there, alleging (accurately I'm sure) that head Jazzbeau Danny Gotham is as good with jazz as anything he plays). Danny's website indicates the same thing, so I'll email him to confirm & note it here later. Friday: Choices. Oy...Larry Q Draughn's group does Nina Simone at Sharp Nine at 8p; Lynn Grissett's Quartet at C Grace at 9p; Al Strong Trio at Alley 26 at 9p. I'm also tempted to see funky singer Emily Musolino at the Hickory Tavern in Carrboro at 9p if for no other reason than pianist Eric Hirsh is backing her. Saturday: Saxophonist Chad Eby's quintet is at Sharp Nine at 8p; hmm, I've yet to hear Chad. Or, the Latin sounds of Marimjazzia is at Irregardless at 9p. Or, the Al Strong Trio highlights an Art of Cool Festival pre-celebration at Strowd's in downtown Chapel Hill at 8. I shall split myself in half or thirds... I productively overdid it Thursday night: a bit of the UNC Jazz Faculty on the porch of the Center for the Study of the American South in the evening light, a bit of Professor Robert Trowers's jazz listening session at the Stanford Warren Library in Durham (https://durhamcountylibrary.org/location/warren/)--repeated 5/12 & 6/9, & a bit of the Russell Favret Trio at the Beyu.
Which reminds me, the Beyu closes 4/27-5/3 to move to its new 341 W. Main St. home. I hope that goes smoothly &, I hope I hope, includes a new piano... The Lynn Grissett Quartet swung at Sharp Nine Friday night, Ernest Turner on piano, Kobie Watkins on drums, & Jason Foureman on bass. That group is worth seeing again (https://www.facebook.com/lynn.grissett.5/about). And, on the Biblical sixth day & personal seventh day, I rested... |
AuthorPeter Burke has liked jazz since he was in high school. Having lived & worked in exotic places with & without local jazz scenes, he has also led a Guide To Local Jazz class in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Duke. Archives
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