http://www.tallahassee.com/story/entertainment/2015/09/24/urban-bush-women-channels-jazz-genius-trane/72748912/ "It will be performed to live music composed by the Grammy Award-winning George Caldwell."
Kyle Kohler, Danny Mixon and myself - keys to the city! from the Pine Grill Jazz Reunion. Kyle and I met that night and Danny Mixon and I go back to when I lived in New York. Glad they made it to Buffalo and those who heard them know why! Two bad cats! Kyle played organ with Bill Easley (speaking of bad cats!) and Buffalo's own Carmen Intorre and Greg Millar. Kyle is a baaaaad, swinging player. Danny played with the great Calvin Newborne and Buffalo's own Juini Booth. I first heard Danny in a club in Harlem back in the day, got my socks knocked off and then I knew why he was Frank Foster's favorite piano player. Bill, I know from Memphis, although he's from Olean. He's a woodwind master who is on the first-call list of a who's-who in jazz: George Benson, Joey DeFrancesco, Nicholas Payton, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, etc, etc. He's been a friend and mentor since Memphis. Yea, Buffalo got it going' on ...(July 2015) |
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