Here’s what some are saying…. “Oooooh Ruby, Sounds sooooooo gooooooood” – James Janisse, Host “Wonderful World of Jazz”, KEBNradio.com, Los Angeles, CA “I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this album” – Dr. Nick, Host Da’ Gator Show, WPFW FM radio, Washington, DC “I love this album.” It’s the best one yet.” – Arthur McCloud, Host, Into The…
Voted a Rising Star in 62nd Annual Critics Poll for “clarinet” and “miscellaneous instrument” categories.— Downbeat, July 2014 “Baltimore-based Todd Marcus, the virtuoso bass clarinetist and composer, is a master of straight-ahead jazz.”— Baltimore Sun, January 2014 Rising Egyptian-American bandleader Todd Marcus appears with a quartet featuring jazz masters George Colligan on piano, Warren Wolf…
Relocating in 1975, from New York to Washington, DC, Bollenback began to study and perform both straight-ahead jazz and fusion. He majored in music at the University of Miami, then studied for eight years with Baltimore-based professor of Theory/Composition Asher Zlotnick. In 1987 he made his recording debut on saxophonist Gary Thomas’s Seventh Quadrant (Enja),…
Bassist Victor Dvoskin was born in Ukraine town of Dnepropetrovsk on June 21 1948. In his childhood he played knob accordion, guitar and later upright bass. At 18 he was heard at the jam session by his countryman percussionist Yuori Genbachov. Soon he was offered to go on the road with the group of musicians…
“Marshall Keys’ dulcet tones and earthy compositions conjure the spirits of jazzmen past and future.” From mainstream to contemporary, from bebop to hip-hop, he plays the saxophone with a sense of grace and emotion that is wholly without cliché. Saxophonist Marshall Keys represents as high a level of musicianship as can be found anywhere, and his versatility and strong…
In the Washington, DC area, pianist Bill Harris is a jazz favorite. Bill is listed in Washingtonian Magazine’s “Best of Jazz in DC” and is winner of the Hennessy Cognac “Best of DC Jazz Competition”. His many performance venues include the Smithsonian, Blues Alley, the World Bank, the IMAX JAZZ Café, the Jazz Bakery in…
Wes demonstrated an interest in drums since the age of four and began his professional career after graduating with a B.S. in Psychology at Virginia Tech where he studied percussion with Dr. John Floyd. Soon thereafter, he began performing drumset with the extraordinary Jazz /R&B singer Jane L. Powell, a musical association that lasted eleven…
Drummer/percussionist Greg Holloway is a native of Washington, D.C. where he received an undergraduate degree in Music Education and Percussion Performance from Howard University (1980). He also participated in the Jazz Studies summer program at Eastman School of Music. Greg later pursued Masters in Education with an emphasis in Jazz Drumming/Percussion Methodology and Masters in Science…
The Dave Kline Band blends the modern genres of rock, blues, jazz and folk with the cultural sounds of its diverse 4 piece ensemble from Brit Dave Kline (electric violin), Colombian Fernando Mojica (electric guitar), Haitian-American Jon Laine (drums), and Senegalise Etu Dieng (bass guitar). In 2002, Dave Kline formed the Dave Kline Band in…
March 28, 2016 Miles Davis played there. So did John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. And on Sunday, drummer Quincy Phillips — dressed in a faux fur coat, blue-feathered shirt and plaid flare pants — prepared for his final set at the legendary jazz club on U Street NW. “This place is…
