Coinciding with this summer’s heat wave and high temperatures is a heat wave of jazz throughout Greater Buffalo. Including a tribute to one of the hottest jazz organists in history and appropriately called “The Mighty Burner.” Read on!
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JazzBuffalo Presents A Tribute To The Mighty Burner – Charles Earland
Charles Earland was called The Mighty Burner for his prolific, high energy, groove style of playing the Hammond B3 organ. He lit up the jazz world in the 1970’s and 1980’s and put the sounds of organ jazz back in a prominent place in jazz. On the best-selling soul-jazz classic, the “Black Talk!” album of 1969 the original “The Mighty Burner,” and the hits “Aquarius” and “More Today Than Yesterday” received worldwide airplay. This “JazzBuffalo Presents” tribute to the Mighty Burner…
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Tim Clarke Soul-Tet Featuring Darryl Washington
The Soul-Tet is a Buffalo-based Quintet that brings to life seldom-heard, groove-driven latin, hard bop, and soul-jazz tunes from the 1950’s to the early 1990’s. All the material has been meticulously transcribed by Clarke from records by Lee Morgan, Joe Gordon, Donald Byrd, Yusuf Lateef, Blue Mitchell, Donald Brown, Ronnie Laws, Poncho Sanchez and others. The group features Clarke on trumpet and flugelhorn, Darryl Washington on drums, Nelson Rivera on tenor sax, Ed Croft on bass, and Harry Graser on…
JazzBuffalo Road Concert Series Presents The Dred Scott Trio
Arriving From New York City! The Dred Scott Trio has been performing in its present incarnation for more than twenty years. During that time the band has released 7 albums, all of them on Ropeadope Records. They have performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, the Friehoffer Jazz Festival, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and were the house band for the yearly AMFAR CINEMA AGAINST AIDS benefit at the Cannes Film Festival for 5 years. The trio appeared every Tuesday night…
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JazzBuffalo / Hotel Henry Jazz Concert Series
What a great and amazing show put on by Mark Marinaccio and Friends as they wowed the audience with “A Jazz Tribute To Michael Jackson”. Announced at the series were the remaining concerts, including the October and November dates:
- August 8 will feature The Buffalo Brass Machine for a New Orleans Night
- September 12 will feature the international jazz group The Philippe Lemm Trio
- Exciting to announce the show “Drea Sings Nina”, which will feature Drea d’Nur in a performance dedicated to Nina Simone on October 10th – Drea has performed to sold-out shows at Kleinhans and Albright-Knox Art Gallery performances dedicated to Nina Simone
- We will close out the 2nd season of this magnificent series on November 14th with “WBFO Night” as our partners from public radio join us – and – we will debut the JBFO Orchestra led by Mark Marinaccio and Tim Martin
JazzBrunch Sundays
The exciting new JazzBrunch Sundays at The terrace at Delaware Park got off to a beautiful start last weekend. This week, the JazzBrunch Sundays Series continues with the hip jazz band Winelight featuring Jim Bohm on trumpet and Will Holton on saxophone.
JazzBuffalo Presents JazzBrunch Sundays at the Terrace at Delaware Park
JazzBuffalo is proud to announce a partnership with The Terrace at Delaware Park to provide high-quality jazz music for Sunday Jazz Brunch at The Terrace’s historic location at Marcy Casino. The Terrace will offer a…
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Greg Millar To Lead “A Tribute To The Mighty Burner, Charles Earland” Organist Charles Earland, who died in December of 1999, was called The Mighty Burner for his prolific, high energy, groove style of playing the Hammond B3 organ. He lit up the jazz world in the 1970’s and 1980’s and put the sounds of […]
