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West
Michigan
Jazz Calendar
Weekly
Headliners
Monday
through Thursday [until August 27th]
The Gilmore Collection Summertime
Jazz Series features a variety of jazz
Monday through Thursday until August 28th The Gilmore Collection
Summertime Jazz Series features a variety of jazz pianists – Mark
Kahny, Wally Michaels, Steve Talaga and Nick Ayoub – at several of
the
Gilmore Collection restaurants. Music from 7 to 10 p.m. at each venue
and musicians are welcome to stop by and sit-in. Monday, August 24,
Sweet Willie Singleton plays trumpet and sings at
the Red Jet
Café, 1431 Plainfield N.W., Grand Rapids (616) 719 – 5500;
Tuesday, August 25th, Mark Kahny is heard at The Bluewater
Grill, 5180
Northland Drive S.E. (616) 363 – 5900;
Wednesday, August 26th, Wally
Michaels swings at Mangiamo, 1033 Lake Drive S.E., Grand Rapids
(616)
742 - 0600;
Thursday, August 27th Nick Ayoub closes out the
season at Gills Blue Crab Lounge in The B.O.B., 20 Monroe N.W., Grand
Rapids (616) 356 – 2000.
The series continues on August 10th with
trumpeter/vocalist Sweet Willie Singleton at the Red Jet
Café;
August 11th, Hugh DeWitt at the BlueWater Grill; August 12th Wally
Michaels at Mangiamo; August 13th, Steve Talaga at Gill’s
Blue Crab
Lounge in The B.O.B. More information on line at
www.thegilmorecollection.com.
Saturdays and Sundays from 6 to 10 p.m.
The What Not Inn features a
revolving cast of local musicians. Highlights include; August 23rd,
Edie Evans-Hyde; September 13th, Mary Rademacher.
Then on Mondays a jam
session open to musicians and vocalists and featuring local, regional
and international jazz musicians sitting in with the “house” band with
pianist Wally Michaels, bassist Jeff Beavin and drummer
Jack Wilkins.
No cover charge.
Music also presented Saturdays and Sundays.
www.whatnotinn.com.
The What Not Inn is located at M89 and the Blue
Star Highway, 2405 68th Street, Fennville, MI. (269) 543-3341.
Tuesday, August 25th from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30
The Truth In Jazz Orchestra
plays swing and improvisational jazz at The West Side Inn, 1635 Beidler
St, Muskegon, MI. They return for shows on September 8th
and 22nd.
Fronted by West Michigan's hardest working drummer and master teacher
Tim Froncek the TIJO is 16 of Muskegon’s very best
players.
http://www.tijo.org
Tuesdays from 7:30 to 10:30
The Grand Seafood and
Oyster Bar, 24 Washington St., Grand Haven.
Live local jazz or blues
guitarists on Wednesday evenings from 8 to 11 p.m.
(616) 844-
5055
Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m.
The Tom Hagen Trio with vocalist Rick
Reuther at Notos Old World Italian Dining, 6600 28th Street SE,
Grand
Rapids.
(616) 493 – 6686 -or- www.notosoldworld.com
Thursdays from 6 to 10 p.m.
Trumpeter Eddie Curtis and
Chicago pianist Wally Michaels
The Everyday People Café, 11
Center Street, Douglas.
See www.everydaypeoplecafe.com -or- phone:
269-857-4240
Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Pumpernickels, 202 Butler St.,
Saugatuck
Guitarist Chip Kristi plays jazz for breakfast. (269)
857-1196.
Upcoming
Concerts & Festivals
Friday, June 5; 7 p.m.
Drummer Tim Froncek presents a tribute to
New Orleans jazz pioneer Baby Dodds in the Acacia Auditorium in the
Grand Haven Community Center, 421 Columbus Avenue, Grand Haven as part
of the day long Grand Haven Jazz Festival.
In the first part of the
tribute concert Tim will play a Leedy/Ludwig drum-set from the 1920’s
(with a 38 inch bass drum) in transcriptions of Baby Dodds’s music. In
the second set Froncek is joined by trumpeter Max Colley and a
quartet
of musicians playing the repertoire of the 1920’s in jazz, including
West End Blues, Fidgety Feet and Shim Me Sha Wobble. Information from
616-842-2550.
Tuesday
through Sunday until August 30th at 7 p.m.
The 18th Annual World Class
Jazz Mini Tour gets under way in northern lower Michigan with
guitarist
Rick Hicks, “Michigan’s answer to B.B. King, Wes
Montgomery and Albert
King.”
The tour opens on Tuesday night at First Street Beach in
Manistee; then Wednesday heads over to The Gull Landing in Pentwater;
on Thursday riles up the Rotary Pavilion in Cadillac; Friday swings the
City Camp Ground in Reed City; Saturday bops the Wenger Pavilion in
Baldwin (behind Jones’s Ice Cream!); and Sunday returns to the Gull
Landing in Pentwater.
The tour will run every week through Labor
Day.
August 18th – 23rd New York City area vocalist Nicole
Pasternak with saxophonist Ralph Lalama and the Steve
Sandner Band;
August 25th – 30th the New York City Teachers Band featuring Side-Order
and Sax Appeal (a septet of professional
musicians who teach in NYC
plus west Michigan’s own Tim Froncek on drums).
Sunday, September 6th from 3 to 6 p.m.
Ragtime Rick and The Chefs
of Dixieland play early jazz at The Oakridge Country Club, 513
West
Pontaluna Road, Muskegon.
See: www.chefsofdixieland.com.
Information from The West Shore Jazz Society: (231) 759
-0071 -or-
by
mail:
The West Shore Jazz
Society
P.O. Box 175,
Muskegon, MI 49443
The series of early jazz
parties continues October 4th the West End Jazz Band;
November 1st,
The Chicago Salty Dogs.
Friday, August 21st at 9 p.m.
The Blue Lake Faculty Jazz Ensemble
swings at The Grand, 22 Washington Avenue, Grand Haven.
(616) 402-4032.
The ensemble features trumpeter Chris Lawrence, saxophonist
Caleb Curtis and drummer Tim Froncek, among
others.
Saturday, August 22nd, at 7 p.m.
The Blue Lake Faculty Jazz Ensemble
The Gull Landing, 438 N Hancock St., Pentwater
ph: (231) 869-4215 -or- www.gullanding.com
Saturday, August 22nd from 6:30 to 10 p.m.
Jazz vocalist Libby York is heard with pianist Jeff
Kessler
Everyday People Café, 11 Center Street, Douglas.
www.everydaypeoplecafe.com -or- 269-857-4240.
Web information on Libby York -- www.libbyyork.com.
Wednesday, August 26th,
Organissimo at the Big Rapids Bandshell, Hemlock
Park, Big Rapids.
http://www.organissimo.org
The Chicago Jazz Festival - Labor
Day Weekend
Features four stages of live jazz near Grant Park on the city’s Lake
Michigan waterfront.
Includes performances by Esperanza Spalding, Madeleine
Peyroux, the trio of Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and
George Lewis, a newly commissioned work from Muhal
Richard Abrams, “Spiralview,” to be played by the Arthur Hoyle Big
Band; The Dave Holland Big Band, a Tribute to Benny
Goodman, a celebration of saxophonist Fred Anderson’s 80th
Birthday, bassist William Parker, and many, many others.
* For a jazzfest schedule and directions visit -->
www.explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/event_landing/special_events/
mose/chicago_jazz_festival.html
** For information on after hours activity and special events, visit
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The Jazz Institute of Chicago -- www.jazzinchicago.com.
Thursday, September 3rd at 7:30 p.m.
Pianist/vocalist John Proulx returns from L.A. to his native
Grand Rapids for a CD release party at Aquinas College celebrating his
tribute to Chet Baker, “A Baker’s Dozen.”
With Paul Keller, bass and Pete Siers on drums the
band will include trumpeter Paul Finkbeiner.
http://johnproulx.com/
Thursday, September 3rd from 9:30 to 1:00 a.m.
Organissimo at Founders Brewing Company, 235
Grandville Avenue S.W., Grand Rapids.
Information from (616) 776-1195 -or-
www.foundersbrewing.com
Sunday, September 6th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra plays at Founders
Brewing Company 235 Grandville Avenue S.W., Grand Rapids.
Ph: (616) 776-1195 -or- www.grjo.com
Friday, September 11th at 8 p.m.
Organissimo plays for Celebration on the Grand, in
front of the Gerald R. Ford Museum, 303 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids.
Information from (616) 254-0400 -or-
www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov
Saturday, September 12th from 8 p.m. to midnight
Grand Haven jazz vocalist Downie Hailstone
The Saugatuck Brewing Co. 2948 Blue Star Highway,
Douglas
With Lee Heerspink -guitar, Kaja Lill -acoustic bass, Kevin
DePree -drums.
Sunday, September 13th
The Cleveland All Stars featuring Ken Peplowski,
clarinet; Shelly Berg, piano; Jamey Haddad, percussion
with trombonist Jiggs Whigham and bassist Tom Knific at
the Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
Part of the Bollock Performance Institute’s 2009-10 season.
Information from (269) 387-4704 -or-
www.wmich.edu/mus_bpi
Monday, September 21st at 6 p.m.
The Dick Reynolds Trio with vocalist Kirsten Gustafson
The Kopper Top Guest House, 634 Stocking N.W., Grand
Rapids, as part of the West Michigan Jazz Society Jazz Gumbo Showcase.
Information from (616) 458-0125 -or- www.wmichjazz.org
Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:30 p.m.
The Beltline Big Band plays for the swing dancers
at The University Club, 111 Lyon Street SW, #1025, Grand Rapids.
Reservations: (616) 456-8623
Visiti www.beltlinebigband.com for more information.
September 26th at 8 p.m.
Vocalist Mary Rademacher and her trio
One Trick Pony, 136 Fulton Street S.E., Grand Rapids.
Visit www.maryrad.com.
Sunday, October 11th at 7 p.m.
The Four Freshman
Aquinas College’s Kretschmer Recital Hall, 1607
Robinson Road SE, Grand Rapids. Information from the West Michigan Jazz
Society’s Jack Morrison --
Ph: (616) 949-6339
Thursday, October 22nd
The Great Artist Gala at St. Cecilia Music Center, 24 Ransom NE, Grand
Rapids, stars jazz pianist/broadcaster Ramsey Lewis. With great
music, fabulous food and the opportunity to meet the three-time Grammy
award winner Ramsey Lewis. Information:
www.scmc-online.org -or- ph: (616) 459-2224
Friday, November 13th
Los Gatos, the Latin-jazz band led by drummer Pete
Siers, appears in the Bethlehem Church Sanctuary, 250 Commerce Ave.
S.W., Grand Rapids.
Ph: (616) 456-1741.
Visit www.blc-grmi.org
Friday, March 12, 2010
Matt Ulery’s Loom plays modern jazz from Chicago at
Bethlehem;
April 9th pianist/composer Steve Talaga premieres a
commissioned work about the Heartside Neighborhood. All programs begin
at 7 p.m.
Thursday, February 11, 2010,
The Tierney Sutton Band
St. Cecilia Jazz Series -- St. Cecilia Music Center, 24
Ransom NE, Grand Rapids. Information from the singer’s web site:
www.tierneysutton.com -or- from
www.scmc-online.org -or- (616) 459-2224.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The Brad Meldau Trio
St. Cecilia Jazz Series at St. Cecilia Music Center, 24
Ransom NE, Grand Rapids. Information from the innovative pianist's web
site: www.bradmehldau.com.
Tickets from www.scmc-online.org -or- (616) 459-2224.
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