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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Jocko’s Jazz Presents
Jason Palmer Quintet
Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$5.00 cover at the door.
Jason Palmer’s Blog
Jason Palmer Collective on MySpace
Band Members
Jason Palmer – trumpet
Greg Duncan – guitar
Colleen Palmer – Vocals
Lim Yang – bass
Lee Fish -drums
Trumpeter Jason Palmer is slowly becoming one of the most in demand jazz musicians of his generation. He has shared the stage [...]

Jocko’s Jazz Presents the Mark Carlsen / Jon Wheatley 50-50 Band
at the Sahara Club
Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$5.00 cover at the door.
Boston jazz musicians Mark Carlsen on bass and Jon Wheatley on guitar co-lead a group called 50/50 named after their 2008 release called 50/50.
Mark Carlsen – Bass
Jon Wheatley – Guitar
Arnie Krakowsky – Sax
Jeff Stout [...]

Jocko’s Jazz Presents the Bruce Gertz Quartet
at the Sahara Club
Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$5.00 cover at the door.
Bruce Gertz- Bass
Tim Miller – Guitar
Ken Cervenka – Trumpet
Bob Guillotti – Drums
American, acoustic and electric bass player and composer, born in Providence, Rhode Island. Bruce Gertz began playing guitar at the age of ten. By age [...]

Jocko’s Jazz Presents
The Be Bop Guitars
an all-faculty band from Berklee College Of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Nine Piece band with 5 guitars.
Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$10.00 cover at the door.
the Be Bop Guitars Website
The group began by performing arrangements from “Supersax” and other similar ensembles. Later, adding to the “book” by writing new [...]

Jocko’s Jazz Presents Jazz Harmonica Virtuoso & Master Mike Turk
with the Marty Rowen Trio
at the Sahara Club
Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$5.00 cover at the door.
Marty Rowen – Hammond B3
Mike Miele – Guitar
Bob Gullotti – Drums
Mike Turk Website
Mike Turk at the Sahara in 2008

Bronx-born Turk began his passion for the harmonica in his early teen years, [...]