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Noah Jackson & Full Circle: Residency & Session
2021-10-06 19:30 - 23:00, 2021-09-29 19:30 - 23:00, 2021-09-22 19:30 - 23:00, 2021-09-15 19:30 - 23:00, 2021-09-08 19:30 - 23:00, 2021-08-25 19:30 - 23:00, 2021-08-18 19:30 - 23:00, 2021-08-11 19:30 - 23:00 (America/Detroit) and 6 more dates
Showtimes are at 7:30p & 9:30p for this performance
(Seatings begin at 5p & 8:45p respectively)
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Musicians pay no cover when they bring their instrument.
A Detroit original, Noah Jackson is a bassist, cellist, and composer specializing in black american music and classical music. Aimed with a curiosity to where sound could touch audiences from within, he has both written and performed music for large international audiences since 2010. A graduate of Michigan State University (B.M.), and Manhattan School of Music (M.M.), Noah has performed with world renowned artists such as NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim, Branford Marsails, Jason Marsalis, The Marsalis Family, Hugh Masekela, Nnenna Freelon, Kenny Garrett, Wizard Harper, George Burton, Jazzmeia Horn, and Christian Sands. Additionally, he’s performed in many prominent venues and jazz festivals including Radio City Music Hall, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Blue Note Jazz Club (New York City and Milan), Royal Albert Hall, Victoria Hall (Geneva), Jazz in Marciac (Marciac, France), The Library of Congress, The Kennedy Center, SFJAZZ, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, London Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, and North Sea Jazz Festival. Noah Jackson also performed as part of the ceremony for the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 2019. He also recorded bass and cello on The Balance with Abdullah Ibrahim which reached #3 on the Billboard Jazz Charts (June 2019).
As a band leader, Noah had put on performances of original creative work with his band Full Circle. In 2011, he made his self-produced debut album, Contemplations- A Suite to critical acclaim and led Full Circle in the Detroit Jazz Festival in 2012. Since then, Noah has collaborated with a wide variety of artists across the jazz spectrum. In 2017, he has worked in collaboration with the American Ballet Theater with his string quartet Asè at Grace Farms in New Canaan, CT. Noah, along with vocalist and co-producer Candice Hoyes, were named recipients of grants for a double jazz and string quartet project: Ellington to the World: Generational Power in Black Culture and Spaces from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York Council of the Arts. The work premiered at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in September 2019 and was performed to a sold out audience in The CUBE @ DSO in February 2020. As of March 2021, Noah has joined Cliff Bell’s in Detroit as Curator and Artist-in-Residence where he will perform with his group Full Circle and host sessions as well as bring in world-class talent to perform on it’s stage.
Noah is endorsed by Aguilar Amps, David Gage REAList LifeLine pickups, and NOAH Guitars of Italy. Noah currently resides in Detroit, Michigan.
Find out more about Noah here!

Michael J. Reed & Friends Album Release Show
2021-09-25 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-09-24 19:30 - 23:30
There will be two seatings at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance
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Michael J. Reed is a jazz drummer currently based in East Lansing, Mi. Michael maintains an active performing career throughout the Midwest, performing throughout Northwest Ohio, Detroit and New York with artists such as Rodney Whitaker, Dwight Adams, Diego Rivera, Tim Ries’ Rolling Stones Project, Trunino Lowe, Nicole New, Walter White, Rick Margitza, Steve Davis, Mark Whitfield, Melissa Aldana, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sachal Vasandani, Damion Sneed, Karen Clark Sheard, Michelle Lordi, the MSU Bebop Spartans all over Michigan and Japan, Ramona Collins, The Dr. Phillips Center Jazz Orchestra in Orlando, Fl and many others.

Michael leads his own groups, which has performed at Cliff Bell’s, the Ohio Theatre, the Toledo Museum of Art, the former Degage Jazz Café, UrbanBeat, and Blue LLama Jazz Club. Michael recently released his second album entitled, Remove All Fear, as well as his first album as bandleader and composer, entitled A Walk of Perspective, in 2018. Michael had the opportunity to record with Rodney Whitaker, and other artists such as Chloe and the Steel Strings, and the Gazebo.

Barry Stephenson: The Iconoclast
2021-09-18 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-09-17 19:30 - 23:30
New York City-based acoustic/electric bassist and composer BARRY STEPHENSON has been acclaimed as “one of the most sought-after bassists on the scene today.” Released in 2020, Barry’s The Iconoclast was nominated for the NAACP Image Award® for Outstanding Jazz Album (Instrumental), and was notably the only independently-produced album in a category that included work by Jon Batiste, George Burton, Christian Sands, and Immanuel Wilkins. The Iconoclast was also named by Offbeat magazine as one of the Top 50 Albums of 2020.
Barry has performed and toured extensively with TV personality, musician, and bandleader Jon Batiste and Stay Human, including regular appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and performances at a variety of festi-

vals, including the Monterey, Montreaux, Mon- treal, Newport, North Sea, Umbria, and Playboy Jazz festivals; he has also performed at Bonna- roo and Lollapalooza. Barry has also been featured on recent episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Godfather of Harlem.
Barry has performed with many international- ly-recognized jazz, blues, and soul artists, including Nicholas Payton, David Sanborn, Seal, the late Freddie Cole, Diane Schuur, Marc Cary-Jamison Ross, Sullivan Fortner, Jazzmeia Horn, Herlin Riley, the late Henry Butler, Mark Whitfield, Tim Warfield, Russell Gunn, Christian Sands, Cyrille Aimee, Etienne Charles, Marcus Printup, Davell Crawford, Rodney Green, and Theo Croker.

Marion Hayden: Legacy
2021-09-11 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-09-10 19:30 - 23:30
There will be two separate seatings at 7:30pm and 9:30pm for this performance.
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Marion Hayden is one of the nation’s finest proponents of the acoustic bass. Mentored
by master trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, Hayden began performing jazz at the age of 15.
She has performed with such diverse luminaries as Bobby McFerrin, Nancy Wilson, Dee
Dee Bridgewater, Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Steve Turre, Lester Bowie, David Allen Grier,
James Carter, Dorothy Donegan, Joe Williams, Lionel Hampton, Frank Morgan, Jon
Hendricks, Hank Jones, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Willis, Sheila Jordan, Mulgrew Miller,
Annie Ross and many others.
Her creative practice centers around her ensemble Legacy– formed in 2003, Legacy
performs original and narrative driven compositional works within the framework
of improvised music with an emphasis on diasporic music traditions.
She is a co-founder of the touring jazz ensemble Straight Ahead- the first all-woman jazz
ensemble signed to Atlantic Records.

Find out more here!

Michael Olatuja & Lagos Pepper Soup
2021-08-28 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-08-27 19:30 - 23:30
There will be two separate seatings at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance.
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Michael Olatuja’s musical development has taken place across three continents, in the heart of three of the world’s greatest cities. After a childhood in Lagos absorbing the Yoruba culture of his Nigerian family, followed by teenage years performing and studying on the booming London jazz scene, Michael’s talent bloomed when he arrived in New York to study at the Manhattan School of Music. His unique breadth of talent, grounded in the strong musical traditions of his homeland, has earned him first-call status across a range of genres from pop to gospel to Broadway to top-flight jazz, and along the way he’s filled his contacts book with a impressive and eclectic range of talent. For Lagos Pepper Soup, his second solo release, Michael picked a core band of Terreon Gully, Aaron Parks and Etienne Stadwijk, and then enlisted the talents of Angelique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves, Regina Carter, Joe Lovano, Laura Mvula, Lionel Loueke, Grégoire Maret, Becca Stevens, Brandee Younger, Robert Mitchell, Onaje Jefferson, and top studio arrangers David Metzger, Joseph Joubert and Jason Michael Webb to realise his vision of what he calls Cinematic Afrobeat – “What you hear is a blend of three major cities: it’s a celebration of life, and I wanted to make it sound like a soundtrack for a movie that hasn’t been made yet – maybe the next Black Panther movie!”Michael has integrated all of his diverse musical influences, incorporating his guests’ talents while allowing his own personality to clearly shape the overall direction. His own virtuoso melodic bass playing shines throughout – “I wanted Lagos Pepper Soup to feature my own playing, as well as songwriting and production – all my influences are here, all my favourite musicians, and I feel there’s an element of divine favour in how amazingly it’s turned out!’

Ashton Thomas w/Six Mile Strings
2021-08-22 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-08-21 19:30 - 23:30
There will be two seatings at 7:30 & 9:30pm for this performance.
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Drum Virtuoso Ashton Thomas a Lorain Ohio Native is certainly noted for his expansive musical creativity and phenomenal technique around the drum kit.

Over the course of his 20 + year career he’s actively toured all over the world, holding several recurring artist residencies in San Francisco, Iceland and the U.K. He’s also endorsed by SoulTone Cymbals and Solobeat Drum Stick with his own signature line.

In his music and performances it’s clear the influences span across many genres ranging from Gospel, R&B, Jazz and more.

Thomas’ current project the AD Collective carries a wide range of artist features, including Detroit’s own De’Sean Jones (Sax) Johnathan Muir Cotton (Bass) and Six Mile Strings in addition to a few special guests.

Ashton Thomas is currently recording his debut album which is set to release December 2021.

Curtis Taylor Quartet
2021-08-14 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-08-13 19:30 - 23:30
There will be two seatings at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance.
Award winning trumpeter Curtis Taylor’s lyrical and melodic improvisational style displays a level of maturity far beyond his counterparts. His unique blend of soulfulness, harmonic sensibilities and rhythm melt together for an unforgettable sound that directly connects with the soul of the listener. According to Taylor, “ When played honestly, music is the ultimate conveyer of truth and beauty.”
Taylor has performed and recorded with Patrice Rushen, Billy Childs, Gary Novak, Bob Sheppard, Ed Motta, Marvin “Smitty’ Smith, Rodney Whitaker, Antonio Hart and great gospel luminaries Karen Clark-Sheard, Kierra Sheard and the Singletons. More extensively Taylor’s stint with jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut included a notable concert performance at Kennedy Center recorded for NPR’s Jazzset, an appearance at the Spoleto Jazz Festival, and a week-long engagement at Dizzy’s Club in NYC. In addition, Taylor had the great opportunity to tour internationally with virtuosic saxophonist James Carter’s Quintet, performing in: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Canada, and Austria. Rounding out the experience, was a week-long stint at Yoshi’s in California again with the James Carter Quintet.
In 2014, Taylor relocated to southern California where he fostered a musical relationship with friend and mentor Kamau Kenyatta. Kenyatta, is a Grammy-Award winning producer for Jazz vocal-star Gregory Porter. While building the musical team for Porter’s “Liquid Spirit” album, he chose Taylor for the trumpet chair. Kenyatta stated that Taylor “graced the session with his elegant solos and precise ensemble playing” and noted his musicianship as “impeccable.” Gregory Porter’s “Liquid Spirit” would go on to receive the Grammy-Award for Best-Jazz vocal album of 2014.

Nate Winn Group
2021-08-07 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-08-06 19:30 - 23:30
There will be two seatings at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance.
A consummate musician, Nathaniel Winn discovered his passion for the drums in church at the age of 4. Since then, the Detroit, Michigan native has never looked back. Nate has had the pleasure to work with many well-known musicians such as Danilo Perez, Robert Hurst, Pat Metheny and Joshua Redman. Nate’s versatile, but unique style has earned him the opportunity appear on numerous albums.
Nate’s style is influenced by Jazz, Blues and his Gospel upbringing, along with some of his favorite drummers: Brian Blade, Kendrick Scott, and Calvin Rodgers.

Nate graduated from Wayne State University and Berklee College of Music with a bachelor’s in music and a master’s in jazz performance, respectively. Currently, he spends time traveling the world to spread the message of love and hope through music.

Irwin Hall Organ Trio
2021-07-03 19:30 - 23:00, 2021-07-02 19:30 - 23:00
There will be two separate seatings for this performance at 7:30pm & 9:30pm.
Irwin got his start at the age of 9 when he won a lottery in school and was gifted an alto saxophone. By the age of 11 he was on stage performing professionally and began winning state and national competitions. Irwin attended Princeton University on a full ride to study East Asian philosophy. He learned Japanese and after graduating began work at a major Japanese newspaper in Tokyo. As fate would have it, he ran into songstress Melody Gardot backstage at the Tokyo Jazz Festival who heard him play and immediately hired him to tour with her band. He quit his job and went on back-to-back international tours as her featured soloist. Soon after he caught the ear of 3x Grammy/Tony Award winning NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater and joined her working band, honing his skills under the master vocalist on saxophone, flute, and bass clarinet.
album Star People Nation by trumpeter Theo Croker, and he has toured extensively with Grammy-nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and bass virtuoso Charnett Moffett, among many others. Irwin now leads two bands of his own, the Irwin Hall Organ Trio and continues to perform in cities around the world including London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio, Prague, New York, Paris, Melbourne, and more.
Irwin’s musical passions also extend into the classroom. He has taught privately and in classroom settings around the world, including the US, Japan, Switzerland, and China. His experience ranges from private instruction to group classes running clinics on improvisation, music theory, and woodwind performance. His international appearances include Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, Happy-Go-Lucky Big Band in Hong Kong, and the Scuola di Musica Modema in Lugano, Switzerland, etc. He has taught at several independent music and charter schools throughout the New York area and maintains a global private music education practice.
Learn more about his organ trio HERE!
