HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: JAZZ SERIES

HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: JAZZ SERIES

PRESENTED AT
THE BLEECKER STREET THEATER
45 BLEECKER STREET (JUST EAST OF LAFAYETTE AT MULBERRY STREET)

Wednesday Sept 23rd 11pm
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT: A JAZZ SERIES
Art Baron & Friends
The Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Bone-a-fide Music The Duke's Men!
Art Baron & Friends
Arthur Baron

Arthur Baron is a trombonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer.
He has had a rich and varied performance career. From Duke
Ellington to Elliot Sharpe, James Taylor to BB King,and Alvin Ailey
to Annea Lockwood. Others include Stevie Wonder and Cab Calloway.
Art spent 2006 as a member of the Bruce Springsteen, Seeger Sessions Band, touring Europe and the US. With Bruce he performs on sousaphone, trombone, penny whistles & mandolin. He also guest performs with Levon Helm, of ‘The Band’ fame, at Levon’s Midnight Rambles in Woodstock, NY. Art is a composer and arranger, and has had several commissions,including Jazz at Lincoln Center, the MOBI New Music Ensemble and the New York Composers' Orchestra, and dance ensembles such as Martita Goshen’s Earthworks. Art has been deeply involved with education, doing workshop/clinics and guest appearances from pre-schoolers to universities and beyond..
Currently he leads The Duke's Men, an ensemble of Ellington alumni,
and is a mainstay with ‘Art Baron & Friends’ at The Bowery Poetry Club
in New York City.


Thursday Sept 24th 11pm
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT: A JAZZ SERIES
American Songbook/ Lisa Brailoff and Friends
The Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

American Songbook/ Lisa Brailoff and Friends
The golden era of radio, big band, film and musical theater ushered in some of the greatest American songwriting treasures of the 20th century. Comic, torch, storied and standard, sit back and chill for a stop, shock and stroll through some of our greatest jazz classics --- big band and small ensemble.


Friday Sept 25th 11pm
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT: A JAZZ SERIES
Hayes Greenfield and Company
The Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Hayes Greenfield – producer, composer, saxophonist, filmmaker, bandleader, and educator – has been active on the New York City jazz scene since the late ‘70s. As sideman, he has built enduring associations with such notable artists as Jaki Byard, Rashied Ali, Paul Bley, Barry Altschul, and Richie Havens. As bandleader, Hayes has recorded and produced a number of critically acclaimed CDs and played throughout the U.S. and Canada, headlining in such popular New York City clubs as the Blue Note, Birdland, the Knitting Factory, and CBGB’s. European tours have taken him and his bands to Vienna, the Aalen Jazz Festival in Germany, Brighton Jazz Festival in the U.K., the Albi, Coutances, Bordeaux, Amiens, Hyeres, and Avignon Jazz Festivals in France, and the Aarhus Jazz Festival in Denmark.


Saturday Sept 26th 11pm
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT: A JAZZ SERIES
Nanette Natal and Company
The Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Nanette Natal’ s music has always defied categories. One of the most interesting and exciting singers working in jazz today, she is a consummate artist in the grand tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and has delivered her socially conscious rhythmic blues/ rock message alongside Mahalia Jackson and Odetta. Rooted in jazz, blues, gospel, and New Orleans style, her latest CD "I Must Be Dreaming" is a 2008 Village Voice Jazz Consumer Guide listing. She has garnered consistent raves throughout the U.S. and Europe including: "Ms. Natal bends and twists her notes in unexpected fashions, makes startling leaps around the scales, and has the daring to expand and extend what might be a satisfactory note to open up a fresh and revealing color”(NY Times) and "...she's a hell of a singer...the extended improv marvels are the most fascinating, like an intense 'You Go to My Head' that ends up somewhere close to Coltrane's 'Equinox.' This is jazz singing at its highest level." (Cadence).
www.benyomusic.com
www.myspace.com/nanettenatal

selected photo credits as of 8/15/2009

(Photo credit: Art Baron courtesy the artist.Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Art Baron.)
(Photo credit: Art Baron courtesy the artist.Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Art Baron.)
(Photo credit: Hayes Greenfield and Cooper Moore courtesy the artist.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Hayes Greenfield.)
(Photo credit: Hayes Greenfield courtesy the artist. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Hayes Greenfield.)
(Photo credit: Nanette Natal courtesy the artist. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Nanette Natal.)