"Straight Ahead" West Coast Jazz

Details

George Kahn full profile / Piano Quintet (pno-tpt-sax-bass-drums) / 5 musicians

Composers featured: Cole Porter, Chick Corea, etc.

Other players: Nolan Shaheed - trumpet, Chuck Manning - sax

Full program notes

Sister Sadie - Horace Silver
Going Baroque - George Kahn
Night And Day - Cole Porter
Soul Sauce - Cal Tjader
I Feel Pretty - Leonard Bernstein
Quarantuni Time - George Kahn
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
and more!

Historical context

This concert will harken back to the days when jazz quintets travelled the country playing week-long gigs in clubs across the country, often in basements of restaurants or back rooms in bars. The improvisatory nature of jazz brings the music to life in the 21st Century.

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I Feel Pretty by Leonard Bernstein

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  Vocal Jazz CD Release Party

  • Musician profile: George Kahn
  • Instruments: Piano trio and three female vocalists
  • Musicians: George Kahn, Courtney Lemmon, Gina Saputo and Crystal Starr - vocals. Lyman Medeiros - bass

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