Performances

New England Seafood Restaurant : Four on the Floor 3/12

Four On The Floor will be playing
New England Seafood Restaurant and Lounge

Friday, March 12th, 2010
9:00pm – 12:00am

Four On The Floor™
Since 1986, Four On The Floor™ have been entertaining audiences with their carefully compiled collection of Classic Hits. Since that time they have shared the stage with some very famous names including Bo Diddley and Don McLean. The careful attention to detail in the band’s arrangements is evident in terms of musicianship and authenticity. They strive to get tunes sounding as close to the original as possible – and they have both the talent and the skill to pull it off. This ability has impressed audiences at so many venues. “It’s the vocals…the vocals.” – as one audience member puts it. “How many bands have you seen that can harmonize and play with such heart?”

How indeed!
Website: http://www.four-on-the-floor.com/

NEW ENGLAND SEAFOOD REST & LOUNGE.
159 Pelham st Methuen MA
exit 47 of RT 93 attached to the Day’s Hotel.
978-686-2971 X 265
email
New england Seafood Restaurant Website

Jocko’s Jazz: Vocalist Dane Vannatter 4/20

Jocko’s Jazz Presents
Vocalist Dane Vannatter at the Sahara Club

with
Fred Boyle – Piano
Dave Landoni- Bass
George Darrell – Drums

April 20, 2010
Tuesday night
7:30 –10:30
$5.00 cover at the door.

Dane Vannatter Website

Dane Vannatter was awarded the 2006 Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist by the critics of BackStage in New York. Dane has been acclaimed by reviewers at The New York Post, The Boston Globe and BackStage for a style that “blends facets of cabaret and jazz with intelligence and care.” The Boston Globe remarks “Dane Vannatter’s distinctive style leaves an imprint on whatever music he sings. His voice has a floating quality that gets in your head and won’t leave….his music is a swinging, soaring adventure!” Dane is also the recipient of the 2000 Bistro Award for Outstanding CD for his second recording “Flight.” He has been nominated for 4 MAC awards and is a 2007 Nightlife Award finalist. Dane has performed for several years at the annual Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention at Town Hall in New York; and has also performed in New York at the legendary Sardi’s, and at Danny’s Skylight Room. He returns to the Metropolitan Room in New York Saturday nights during September 2008. Dane’s 3 CD’s & performance schedule are available at his web site www.danevannatter.com.

Jocko’s Jazz Website

Sahara Club
34 Bates St.
Methuen, MA 01844
978-683-9200

Jocko’s Jazz: Cryogenic Renaissance Orchestra 4/13

Jocko’s Jazz Presents
the Cryogenic Renaissance Orchestra at the Sahara Club
aka the Greg Hopkins Nonet (9 piece band)

April 13, 2010
Tuesday night
7:30 –10:30
$10.00 cover at the door.

the Greg Hopkins Website

Performer, composer, and arranger Greg Hopkins first picked up the trumpet as a boy in Detroit, and to this day it would be hard to spot him without his horn. Hopkins plays even when caught in traffic on commute to Berklee College of Music, where he’s been teaching since 1974 – the year the London Times called him “a real find” for the Buddy Rich Orchestra.

That symbiosis of man and musical instrument is evident in Hopkins’ solo performances by which he has served the orchestras of Louis Bellson, Billy Maxted, Rich, and Herb Pomeroy, as well as his own small ensembles and big bands. Hopkins began his professional career in 1965, freelancing in the Detroit area for such acts as the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Gladys Knight until 1969, when he graduated Michigan State.

From 1969 to 1974 he toured nationally and internationally, appearing at the Newport, Monterey, and other major jazz festivals. Hopkins has also performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Ella fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Joe Williams, Tony Bennett, the Supremes, Burt Bacharach, Nancy Wilson, Lou Rawls, Mitzi Gaynor, Michel Legrand, Johnny Mathis, Shirley Maclame, Marvin Hamlisch, and Lena Home, as well as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Boston Brass Ensemble.

He recorded as soloist and arranger the “Roar of ‘74″ and “Stick It” with the Buddy Rich Orchestra, “Afrodisia” with Lonnie Smith, “Pramlatta’s Hips” with Herb Pomeroy (Shiah). “Together” with Maggie Scott (MM and R), “Orange Then Blue” with George Adams (GM Recordings), “Jumpin’ in the Future” with Gunther Schuller (GM), “Dreams Come True” with Suzanne Dean (NOVA), and numerous others.

His theater work includes 42nd Street, Dancin’, Some Like It Hot, Annie, Tommy Tune Tonight, Catskills on Broadway, West Side Story, Porgy and Bess, My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison, The King and I with Yul Brynner, Into the Woods, Ragtime, and A Chorus Line.

His own 16-Piece Jazz Orchestra CD, “Okavongo”, is out on the Summit label, as is his quintet Cd, “Quintology”, featuring Bill Pierce, Mick Goodrick, and Gary Chaffee. Just released this spring was the trio Cd with Tim Ray’s chamber jazz group “Tre Corda”, featuring Tim on piano, and Eugene Friesen on cello. Greg is also featured on the new grammy winning jazz cd by composer Joel Pallson and his Septet, on the Icelandic label. Most recently greg was trumpet soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra on Arthur Welwoods composition for jazz trumpet and orchestr, on Albany Records. “Wind, Sky, and Clouds”.

Mr. Hopkins busy teaching and performing schedule takes him all over the world doing concerts, festivals, jazz club dates, and clinics. Recently he has visited Italy, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Alaska, Argentina, and many others.

A Professor of Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music, Greg has developed and teaches several courses in composition and also directs the Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra, one of the most prestigious perfofming ensembleat the school.

He has published arrangements and compositions with Kendor, Studio P.R., and Tom Crown Brass Publications. Hopkins continues to write and orchestrate, and is Professor of Jazz Composition at Berklee where the debut of his “Inner Voyage” for Herb Pomeroy’s tribute shook the Performance Center not long ago, with John Abercrombie and Abe Laboriel, Sr. soloing.

Hopkins works often with his 16 Piece Jazz Orchestra, and also performs regularly with his quintet, and Tim Ray’s trio.

For further information on Greg, his various groups and activities please visit his web site at: www.greghopkins.net

Jocko’s Jazz Website

Sahara Club
34 Bates St.
Methuen, MA 01844
978-683-9200

Keyboardist Dave Caponigro returns to Methuen Village 4/9

Methuen Village at Riverwalk Park
welcomes
David Caponigro on the accordion keyboard

Friday, April 9, 2010
at 7:00 pm
Dave Caponigro will perform will perform many old classics from Sinatra, Bennett and Nat King Cole all the old standards on his electric keyboard. You will want to sing-a-long to these favorites!

These events are free and open to the public!

Methuen Village at Riverwalk Park
4 Gleason St.
For information call 978-685-2220
www.MethuenVillage.com.

New England Seafood Restaurant: Radio Edit 2/6, 3/20, 4/17

Radio Edit will be playing
New England Seafood Restaurant and Lounge

Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Saturday, April 17th, 2010
9:00pm – 12:00am

Radio Edit on MySpace

Radio Edit derives from 4 musicians, 3 that have been in the musical stomping grounds of New England for many years! You might know some of us from previous bands like, Going Commando, One Louder, Tigerlily to name a few. Or if you found yourself in the Rock and Roll center of Philly you would of seen J9! Radio Edit brings what you need to draw the masses, and we leave it all on the stage! With Female and Male vocals Radio Edit covers all areas of Rock and Dance from Madonna to Metallica! As we like to say it, “Are you Ready!”

NEW ENGLAND SEAFOOD REST & LOUNGE.
159 Pelham st Methuen MA
exit 47 of RT 93 attached to the Day’s Hotel.
978-965-2242 email
New england Seafood Restaurant Website

Jocko’s Jazz: The Russ Hoffmann Trio 3/23

Jocko’s Jazz Presents the Russ Hoffman Trio
Featuring Vocalist Eula Lawrence
at the Sahara Club

Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$5.00 cover at the door.

Russ Hoffman – Piano
Ron Mahdi – Bass
Marcello Pelletier – Drums

Russell Hoffmann is Assistant Professor of Piano at Berklee College of Music and is a pianist, recording artist, composer and arranger in many styles of contemporary music, including jazz, Latin, and pop styles. He has served as musical director for Concord recording artist Marlena Shaw and the University of Minnesota’s “Twelve Moods for Jazz” Langston Hughes project. He has performed with many jazz luminaries, including Jack McDuff, James Moody, Billy Hart, Donald Harrison, Bobbie McFerrin, Peter Lietch, and many of Boston’s finest jazz artists. As a clinician, Russ has appeared in Berklee’s Italy summer program, Umbria Jazz Festival, Perugia, Italy; Berklee in Taipei; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Heineken Jazz Fest, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Berklee Annual Jazz Festival. He is the author of workbooks on keyboard comping, ensemble performance, and co-author of the Berklee Practice Method: Keyboard.

Jocko’s Jazz Website

Sahara Club
34 Bates St.
Methuen, MA 01844
978-683-9200

New England Seafood Restaurant: Ten & Out 4/3 & 6/26

Ten and Out will be playing
New England Seafood Restaurant and Lounge

Saturday April 3rd, 2010
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Friday, October 1st, 2010
Friday, December 1, 2020
9:00pm – 12:00am

Ten & Out is a Southern New Hampshire based Classic Rock Band performing hits from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s

Website: Ten and Out.com
Members:
Mike Rees.
Leo Muise
Rob Bowes
Norm Mendieta
Joe Costa

Ten and Out at Myspace

NEW ENGLAND SEAFOOD REST & LOUNGE.
159 Pelham st Methuen MA
exit 47 of RT 93 attached to the Day’s Hotel.
978-686-2971 X 265

Jocko’s Jazz: Ed Saindon Quartet w/Bruno Råberg 4/6

Jocko’s Jazz Presents
bassist/composer Bruno Råberg
with the Ed Saindon Quartet

Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$5.00 cover at the door.

Ed Saindon vibes
Rick DiMuzio sax
Bruno Råberg bass
Steve Langone drums

Ed Saindon Vibraphonist Website
Ed Saindon on Youtube

Coming from the “four mallet school”, Ed Saindon has developed and continues to refine a pianistic approach to mallet playing which involves a consistent utilization of all four mallets along with a variety of dampening techniques. Saindon has absorbed and transferred the influences from the piano lineage that stretches from Fats Waller and Art Tatum up to the present. Originally a drummer, he began playing the vibraphone and piano while attending Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1972-1976.

As a concert artist and clinician, Saindon has traveled throughout the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Mexico and Japan. He has played and or recorded with Dave Liebman, Kenny Werner, Ken Peplowski, Warren Vache, Mick Goodrick, Fred Hersch, Peter Erskine, John Scofield, Jeff Hamilton, Adam Macowicz, Dick Sudhalter, Ed Thigpen, George Masso, Dan Barrett, Louie Bellson, Herb Pomeroy, Dick Johnson, Howard Alden, Dave McKenna, Chuck Hedges, Marvin Stamm, Michael Moore and others.

In addition to performing, Saindon’s other passion is music education. He is a Professor at Berklee where he has been teaching since 1976 and is also active as a clinician sponsored by Yamaha and Vic Firth. As an author, his book Berklee Practice Method: Vibraphone has been published by Berklee Press and German publisher Advance Music recently issued his new book Exploration in Rhythm, Volume 1, Rhythmic Phrasing in Improvisation.

In addition to writing books, Saindon has authored many articles on music education, jazz theory and improvisation. His articles have appeared in many publications including Down Beat, Percussivive Notes (Percussive Arts Society magazine) and Percussioner International. He is currently the vibraphone and jazz mallet editor for the Percussive Arts Society.

Saindon is active as a composer for his own recordings. His last two recordings as a leader, Key Play with Kenny Werner and Depth of Emotion with Dave Liebman, have featured his compositions.

Bruno Råberg on My Space

Bruno Råberg is originally from Sweden. he moved to Stockholm at age 20 to join trombone virtuoso Eje Thelin’s Band. He tour internationally and recorded with them between 1974-78. In 1981 he relocated to the US and studied with Mirislav Vitous at New Enland Conservatory and graduated in 1984. He is currently a Professor at Berklee college of Music.

Raberg has 6 CDs out as a leader. He has performed/recorded with Mick Goodrick, Ben Monder, Chris Cheek, Matt Wilson, Bob Moses, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Yoron Israel, Billy Hart, Dick Oats, T.Lavitz, Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, Bobo Stensson, Nils Landgren, Monika Zetterlund, Lars Erik Norrström Trio, Terje Sundby, Göran Klinghagen, Joakim Milder, Thomas Gustavsson, Rob Thomas, Rick Peckham, Sam Rivers, Julius Hemphil, Jim Black, Donny McCaslin, Bruce Barth, Bob Mintzer, Rick Peckham, Anthony Wonsey, Greg Osby, Jackie Byard, Ran Blake, George Russel, Miroslav Vitous, Alan Skidmore, Zpiegniew Seifert, Regina Carter, Antonio Hart, Jorge Rossy, Billy Kilson, Gary Chaffee, Joe Morello, Gene Jackson, John Medeski, John LaPorta, Natraj, Orange Then Blue, Dave Fiuczynski, Prasanna, Cyros Baptista, Kenwood Dennard, John McNeil, Dave Tronzo, Sten Höstfält, Lynne Fiddmont, John McNeil, Carla Cook, Rachel Z, Donald Brown, Bill Pierce, Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra with David Baker, Terrel Stafford, Dominique Eade, Steve Hunt, Ken Scaphorst Jazz Orchestra, Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, The Wayfaring Strangers, Instant Groove with T. Lavitz and more.

“As a composer, Raberg is a jazz impressionist of the highest order” Double Bassist(UK).

“As a player, Raberg is graceful and lyrical, with a real fleetness to his articulation and keen grounding in rhythm and harmony.”

Bassist/Composer Raberg has an earthy, pure tone that translates beautifully to disc, he plays with an artistic economy that serves his compositions well” Bass Player mag. Cadence Magazine.

Raberg has toured in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Yugoslavia, Austria, Italy, Luxemburg, Japan, France, Switzerland, Bermuda, South Africa. He has traveled for Berklee College of Music as an educator and performer in Poland, Costa Rica, Italy, Czech Republic and Mexico.

Jocko’s Jazz Website

Sahara Club
34 Bates St.
Methuen, MA 01844
978-683-9200

Jocko’s Jazz: Amanda Carr 4/27

Jocko’s Jazz Presents
Amanda Carr at the Sahara Club

Vocalist Amanda Carr with the Ken Hadley Quartet
Ken Hadley – Drums
Jon WIlkins – Guitar
Arnie Krakowsky – Sax
Mark Paniatowski – Bass

Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$10.00 cover at the door.

Amanda Carr Website

Boston based daughter of a big band vocalist and trumpeter (Nick Capezuto, most known for Herb Pomeroy Band), Amanda Carr is a multi-styled vocalist/pianist that began early on in her teens in the rock and pop genre, but has in recent years focused on fresh interpretations of the Great American Songbook, following in her parent’s musical footsteps. For over three decades she’s performed and recorded both in the U.S. and Italy. Both her and her CD’s have received critical acclaim from a tough bevy of jazz reviewers. Her 2005 recording, TENDER TRAP debuted on the National Jazz Charts at 55 and received 4-stars from All Music Guide. Her follow-up recording in 2007 was a feature story by Nat Hentoff in The Wall Street Journal which catapulted her to global exposure with sales and airplay. She’s also featured in Nat Hentoff’s upcoming Biography, “At the Jazz Band Ball: 60 Years on the Jazz Scene” due out in 2010 (Univ. of California Press)

Among her varied performances, she stars in “A Tribute to Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman” a big band show that has travelled to various cities nationwide completing a 30-date 2008-09 touring season. Amanda has been featured with The Artie Shaw Orchestra, Harry James Band and has also appeared with the Glenn Miller Band among her many other guest vocal appearances. In 1998, she headlined at the EuroJazz Festival in Italy along with James Moody and George Mraz, returning the following year to record “Live in San Giorgio” with Trio Martinale. Amanda has composed and performed award-winning music for two PBS documentaries and received an Emmy nomination for “The Story of Golf”, a CBS special narrated by Jim McKay. She’s won awards for her musical contributions to “Boston Red Sox: 100 Years of Baseball History”. In 1999 she was awarded the Videographer Award by the NTA for excellence in Music Composition in addition to her multiple“Telly’s”. She has dozens of T.V. and Radio commercials to her credit and owns and operates a successful recording studio in the Boston area along with the OMS record label.

Among her own recordings, her eclectic album credits include the late Dave Guard from the Kingston Trio on his final album “Up & In”, a year long project in the early 1980’s. Since then she has a long list of album credits as both a music composer and a vocalist. Along with 4 other CD releases since 1995, Amanda is releasing a big band CD “Common Thread” in October of ‘09, which is the third project with drummer/producer Kenny Hadley. Their previous effort, SOON, soared on Amazon’s Jazz Bestseller list at #2 and remained on their Top 100 for weeks. With distribution and airplay in over a dozen countries, including Japan and the Netherlands, and a growing International fanship, Amanda continues to perform with her own group and is becoming a popular guest vocalist with many other ensembles. This new Big Band record features the works of Grammy-winnning arrangers like Bob Freedman and world-class players like trumpeter, Lin Biviano. Amanda is the CEO of the newly formed not for profit organization American Big Band Preservation Society, Inc. which has a mission of preserving and promoting Big Band music through performance and education and acquiring a library of unpublished Big Band arrangements to share with the public. Please visit www.AmericanBigBand.ORG

Jocko’s Jazz Website

Sahara Club
34 Bates St.
Methuen, MA 01844
978-683-9200

Irish Cottage : Irish Music Performers in March

Saturday March 6th – Mike Reynolds
Friday, March 12th & Saturday March 13th Christy Henshaw
Saturday, March 20th & 27th  -Cu Chulainn fresh from Ireland (pronounced Coo-Cull-an)

the Irish Cottage
1111 Riverside Drive
Methuen, MA 01844
(978) 208-4347

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