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Fri., Nov. 20 & Sat., Nov. 21
9pm & 11pm sets
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The Memphis-reared, Delaware-based Drummer/percussionist/ composer/bandleader Aaron Walker is no stranger to jazz. He's performed, toured and recorded with an impressive potpourri of jazz artists including James, Williams, Phineas Newborn, Harold Mabern, Gary Bartz, Nicholas Payton, George Coleman, Buster Williams, Steve Turre, Cecil Bridgewater, Junior Cook, Donald Harrison, Larry Willis, Geri Allen, Suzzette Ortiz, Sumi Tonooka, Helen Sung, Grady Tate, Sonny Fortune, Gary Thomas, George Colligan, Ronnie Matthews, Steve Coleman, Slide Hampton, Steve Nelson, Tim Warfield, Donald Brown, Terrell Stafford.
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Fri., Nov. 27 & Sat., Nov. 28
9pm & 11pm sets
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The Tim Whalen Septet is one of the most exciting jazz groups in Washington DC area, featuring some of the most sought after musicians on the east coast. They are fearless improvisers that believe the music should never be the same from night to night. Due to the diversity of their collective musical experience and influences, they are able to traverse many musical styles seamlessly. With all that said, this band is about groove, swing, and intricacy. It's all centered around Whalen's philosophy that in order to look to the future, you need to be rooted in what came before you, and with this thought the music should speak for itself. For this special performance, the band will be playing Whalen's original compositions, as well as his creative arrangements of the music of some of the great modern pianists.
Tim Whalen - piano
Marty Nau - alto sax
Tedd Baker - tenor sax
Joe Herrera - trumpet
Reginald Cyntje - trombone
Tom Baldwin - bass
Dave McDonald - drums
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Fri., Dec. 04 & Sat., Dec. 05
9pm & 11pm sets
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Michael Bowie is an internationally recognized musician, performing on both the electric and contrabass. With roots in the Washington D.C. jazz and gospel community, he was a recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Jazz Studies and trained with Betty Carter and Keter Betts. Soon after, Michael signed with Verve Records as an original member of "The Harper Brothers". He went on to perform, record and tour with Abdulla Ibrahim, Michel Pettruciani, including the Grammy Award winning "Look What I Got" with Betty Carter. Michael has expanded his musical interests and performance to include a wide variety of musical forms from jazz to symphony to rock. As musical director he has worked with many artists worldwide including Patti Labelle, James Ingram, Jeff Majors, Abbey Lincoln, Angie Stone, Isaac Hayes, Gil Scott-Heron. He has shared his talents in the recording studio and on the stage with Sarah Vaughn, Joe Williams, Manhattan Transfer, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Della Reece, and Michel Camilo and Ricky Skaggs. He has appeared on countless television shows such as BET, Austin City Limits, Charlie Rose, Radio One, as well as having performed at major venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, the Newport Jazz Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, Montreux, and most other major festivals world-wide. As a composer his works can be heard in television, radio and the industrial markets as well. In addition to his personal musical career, Michael is deeply involved in developing children's music enrichment. He is a certified teacher in Washington D.C.'s Public School system at Oyster-Adams Bilingual Campus. As a lecturer and associate professor he has taught at Shenandoah Conservatory, Michigan University, University of Missouri, Fillmore Arts Center and Bowie State amongst others. In addition, he has worked with the Wolftrap Institute for Early Childhood Learning program in Virginia, The Smithsonian Masterworks Orchestra, and the Thelonius Monk Institute.
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Fri., Dec. 11 & Sat., Dec. 12
9pm & 11pm sets
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An Afro-Cuban saxophonist of acrid panache and fierce volatility, Faife is a regular presence on the clubs scene in both D.C. and New York, and he has put together an impressive résumé. He's played at international festivals in the United States, Cuba, France, Switzerland and elsewhere, while always retaining a personal artistic conception that unites his upbringing in Holguin, Cuba, with the American jazz that's always captured his imagination. At the loft he'll be playing with an ace quartet: Hope Udobi on piano, Tarus Mateen on bass and Allen Jones on drums.
Band Members for Friday Dec 11th,2015
- Benito González on piano
- John Lamkin on drums
- Blake Mynster on bass
- Luis Faife on saxophones adn flute, Band Leader
Band Members for Sat Dec 12th, 2015
- Benito González on piano
- John Lamkin on drums
- Kriss Funn on bass
- Luis Faife on saxophones and flute
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Fri., Dec. 18 & Sat., Dec. 19
9pm & 11pm sets
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Musician Lineup Stan Killian, tenor sax; Benito Gonzalez, piano; Corcoran Holt, bass; McClenty Hunter, drums
"Stan Killian sounds a hopeful note for jazz's future. Killian is more precisely of the Dexter Gordon sound that carried through in Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, and Wayne Shorter. It's great stuff that brings the past into the present, like any good jazz does."
Michael J. West, Washington City Paper,
The New York-based tenor saxophonist and composer was born and raised in Texas and began performing professionally at age 16 with his father, JoeKillian, a jazz pianist and Hammond organist who worked in bands led by sax legends Sonny Stitt, Jimmy Ford, and Don Wilkerson. With a saxophone spirit reminiscent of Illinois Jacquet, Arnett Cobb, and James Clay, the twenty-first-century Texas Tenor seeks to modernize this rich lineage by developing a highly personalized compositional approach coupled with a consistent group sound steeped in simpatico and interplay.
In 2006, Killian left Texas and moved to Baltimore. He lived in a red brick row home on Chesterfield Ave in a diverse neighborhood, overlooking the tranquility of Herring Run Park. There, he composed many of the compositions which would appear on his two critically acclaimed Sunnyside Record releases, Unified and Evoke. While in Baltimore, he studied with Gary Thomas and Larry Willis and led Com Você, a group he co founded with vocalist Margret Grebowicz. They performed regularly in Baltimore, Washington D.C and in New York as well.
Killian moved to New York in 2008 and soon began recording with great musicians like Antonio Sanchez, Scott Colley, Ben Monder. He formed his New York Quartet and recorded Unified with special guests Roy Hargrove, David Binney and Jeremy Pelt. In 2013, he released Evoke, which featured his working band with guitarist Mike Moreno.
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Sun., Nov. 22
8pm & 10pm
Wed., Nov. 25
8pm & 10pm
Sun., Nov. 29
8pm & 10pm
Wed., Dec. 02
8pm & 10pm
Sun.,. Dec. 06
8pm & 10pm
Thur., Dec. 10
8pm & 10pm
Sun., Dec. 13
8pm & 10pm
Wed., Dec. 16
8pm & 10pm
Sun., Dec. 20
8pm & 10pm
Wed., Dec. 23
8pm & 10pm
Sat., Dec. 26
8pm & 10pm
Sun., Dec. 27
8pm & 10pm
Wed., Dec. 30
8pm & 10pm
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