“Two of a Kind”: Pam Crosby & Cindy Cain

Two of a Kind: Pam Crosby & Cindy Cain

This cross-generational duo will deliver a bit of Broadway and pop, along with heaping helpings of jazz and blues.

A native Oklahoman, Pam Van Dyke Crosby began her career singing jazz in New York City with a band that included pianist Duke Jordan and bassist Keeter Betts. She also sang with the New York City-based Sammy Kaye Orchestra. Since returning to Oklahoma, Crosby has been a featured performer in numerous jazz festivals, benefits and revues.

Raised in Pryor, Cindy Cain honed her style during more than a decade of performances in the D.C. area, where a Washington Post writer called her “one of the best singers on Washington’s blues scene.” She moved to Tulsa in 2001 and quickly made her mark by being nominated three years running for Best Jazz Act in the Tulsa World’s annual Spotnik Music Awards.

SummerStage Festival

June 21 at 8 p.m.

Charles E. Norman Theatre

PRESENTED BY: Pam Van Dyke Crosby & Cindy Cain

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Top 10 Cities With the Best Music Scenes Outside of Nashville NYC and LA – Tulsa, OK | Livability

Tulsa, OK, continues to attract and produce musical talent, and has done so as far back as the 1930s, when King of Western Swing and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Bob Wills relocated his band there.

Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame president and musician Jim Paul Blair agrees. As a recent guest on the Tom Skinner-hosted Wednesday Night Science Project in Tulsa, he looked around the room and counted 10 musicians who had relocated to Tulsa since he first knew them in Nashville including Skinner, Don White, Don Morris, Harley Hamm and Patrick Williams.

“Tulsa is a great music town where you can find something every night,” Blair says….

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The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame presents “Salute to Father’s Day: Thanks, Dad!”

 ”Salute to Father’s Day: Thanks, Dad!”

Fathers and Sons in Concert

Quite a while ago-Mike Moore isn’t sure exactly when-plans were floated for a band composed entirely of father and son musicians to play a show for the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. That idea sounded great to Moore and his son David, both of whom are highly regarded trumpeters. 

“We heard about it, and we were excited about it,” Mike recalls. Given the logical opportunity of Father’s Day this year, Mike and David thought it would be good to resurrect the family-band notion, and front a Jazz Depot show.

Despite the fact that they both play the trumpet, David and Mike have found other opportunities to perform together. They held down a regular gig at a Tulsa restaurant, for instance, until the owner decided to stop featuring live music. They occasionally perform together in bandleader Leon Rollerson’s groups. And Sundays find them at St. Pius X Catholic Church with organist Michele Cowen, who goes back with Mike to the University of Tulsa.

“We play during the Mass and we play special music,” Mike says. “Michele Cowen was formerly on the University of Tulsa faculty, and choir director Karen Gingrich is a TU graduate. There’s a connection among us all. For instance, Michele was the accompanist on David’s classical recitals when he was at TU.”

David is now pursuing a master’s degree in jazz studies at the University of Northern Colorado, where he also plays locally with the Mark Sloniker Quartet. He just recorded a disc with Jeff Coffin, the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, and Ryan Middagh, another sax man who’s an alumnus of the Harry Connick Jr. Big Band.

“It hasn’t been released yet, but it’s called Colorado Brews,” notes David. “Every tune on it is named after a different beer from Colorado.”

Since David is only home in the summer, the opportunities to share a stage with his dad are limited – especially since David has also been working on and off around town with the likes of the Paul Benjamin Band, Mike Cameron, Ryan “Chips” Tedder, and Jordan Hehl. The latter is a member of the trio scheduled to play with Mike and David on the Father’s Day concert.

“David wanted to hire our rhythm section, and I remember Miles Davis committing himself to print several times, saying, `Playing with younger players keeps you young, keeps you fresh,’” says Mike. “So he’s hired a rhythm section of younger players, goodplayers, He’s got George Toumayan on drums, Jordan Hehl on bass, and Steven Schrag on piano.”

According to David, the quintet plans to present a selection of jazz numbers old and new, chosen by him and his father.

“We sat down together and threw tunes back and forth until we came up with a list,” he explains. “We’re going to do some more modern jazz, we’re going to do some older jazz, and we decided we wanted to pick a couple of tunes from albums that were recorded with two trumpets on the front line. So we’ll do `Moontrane,’ which was recorded by Woody Shaw several times, but once on an album with Freddie Hubbard where they played it together. And we’ll also do “Little Dancer.” It’s a Tom Harrell tune, and he recorded it on an album with John McNeil.

As for standards, he adds, “We’ve got `Honeysuckle Rose’ and `There Will Never be Another You,’ and then my dad is going to be featured on `My Funny Valentine’ and I’m going to be featured on `Skylark.’

“I’ve only met a handful of people who’ve gotten to do this kind of thing with other family members,’ David concludes. “It’s a great feeling to get up there and play this stuff with your dad.”

Mike and David Moore’s Father’s Day show is set to begin at 5:00p.m. Sunday, June 16, at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, located in downtown Tulsa’s Jazz Depot, 111 E. First St. Tickets can be purchased at the Jazz Depot or by calling Bettie Downing at918-281-8609. General admission is $15, reserved table seating $20. Seniors and Jazz Hall members are admitted for $10, and high school and junior high students for $5. Refreshments will be available for purchase.

The event is a part of the Jazz Hall’s Summer Concert Series.

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is a 501(c)(3) non-profit cultural and educational organization, with a mission to inspire creativity and improve the quality of life for all Oklahomans through preservation, education, and performance of jazz, our uniquely American art form.

 

 

An Evening of Cabaret at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center June 15,2013

One stage, two shows featuring two of Tulsa’s premiere Jazz singers, one incredible evening!

In an unprecedented evening of entertainment, Spinning Plates Productions takes over the Charles E. Norman Theater for TWO original cabaret performances from a couple of truly talented ladies. At 7 pm, it’s ‘Why Cyn Sings Jazz—The Vocal Evolution of Cynthia Simmons.’ New and old Simmons’ fans alike will thrill to hear the circuitous musical journey that led Cyn to both devour and deliver the Great American Song Book.

Then we’re giving our brave patrons who attend both shows a 30 minute break to recover and re-hydrate.

At 9 pm, Rebecca Ungerman IS Queen Cleofis in ‘Queen Cleofis Comes Home’. Of all the twisted cabaret shows Ungerman has written & starred in, this may just be the most twisted fun. A must see for fans of Tulsa’s Favorite Stage Performer (Tulsa People Magazine)!!

Tickets available at myticketoffice.com OR, for the best service without all the additional fees, at the PAC box office.

Tulsa Performing Arts Center
110 E 2nd St., Tulsa, OK 74103

administrative office:(918) 596-7122

ticket office:(918) 596-7111

The Live Jazz Lovers Gig List!

The Live Jazz Lovers Gig List

For Week of 6/10/2013

By

Jim & Jeanine

 Brought to you Courtesy of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame

June 11 TUESDAY Jon Glazer – Infuzion, 101st & Mingo, Tuesday night, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Jazz Depot Jam Session - Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, 111 E First, Upper Level.  Tuesday night, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.   Come play or come listen – FREE Steve Ham and the Jambalaya Jass Band – Tuesdays in the Park, Broken Arrow Central Park on Main Street, Tuesday night, 7:00 p.m. Kings of Music, a 7 piece band that plays every Tuesday for ballroom dancing – Moose Lodge, 11106 E. 7th Street, Tuesday night, 7:30 to 9:45 p.m. Denny Morouse Quartet featuring Denny on sax, Adam Ledbetter on keys, Aaron Tomasko on bass and Jared Johnson on drums – Plaza del Sol, 101st and Mingo, Tuesday night, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 12 WEDNESDAY Jazzwich – Brown Bag Lunch and Jazz with Steve Schrag, Jordan Hehl and Ryan Tedder – Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, 111 E First, Upper Level, Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., free admission! Jon Glazer – Infuzion, 101st & Mingo, Wednesday night, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Myron Oliver and Fuzed – Los Cabos in Jenks, Wednesday night, 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Annie Ellicott with Shelby Eicher and Mark Bruner – Full Moon Cafe, Wednesday night, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. 7 Blue – Hey Mambo, 114 N Boston, Wednesday night, 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Mike Cameron Trio (Jared Johnson, Scott McQuade & Mike Cameron) – Cellar Dweller, 417 W 7th, Wednesday night. 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. June 13 THURSDAY Jon Glazer – Infuzion, 101st & Mingo, Thursday night, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Mark Bruner – Ti Amo, 61st & Sheridan, Thursday night, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Brian Haas and Josh Raymer – Haskell’s Loft, 115 ½ Frank Phillips Blvd, Bartlesville, Thursday night, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. Begonias – Main Street Tavern,  200 S Main, Broken Arrow, Thursday night, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Ghost Quartet (Ryan Tedder, Steven Schrag, Jordan Hehl and Nicholas Foster) – The Vault, 7th & Cincinnati, Thursday night, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. June 14 FRIDAY 7 Blue – Hey Mambo, 114 N Boston, Friday night, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. Booker Gillespie and M. I. C. – Los Cabos-Broken Arrow, Friday night, 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. Wanda Watson Blues Band – Pepper’s Grill 91st & Delaware, Friday night, 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. June 15 SATURDAY Why Cyn Sings Jazz, SummerStage Festival, featuring Cynthia Simmons – Charles E. Norman Theater, Tulsa PAC, Saturday night, 7 p.m. Sea of Time – Pepper’s Grill 91st & Delaware, Saturday night, 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Rebecca Ungerman in Queen Cleofis Comes Home, SummerStage Festival,  Charles E. Norman Theater, Tulsa PAC, Saturday night, 9 p.m. Jacob Fred Jazz Trio – Hodge’s Bend, 815 E 3rd, Saturday night, 10:00 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. June 16 SUNDAY Mike and David Moore with Steven Schrag, Jordan Hehl and George Toumayan Salute Fathers on Father’s Day: Bringing back the notion of the family band, the Jazz Depot welcomes father and son musicians to the stage in our Salute To Fathers. Quite a while ago—Mike Moore isn’t sure exactly when—plans were floated for a band composed entirely of father and son musicians to play a show for the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. That idea sounded great to Moore and his son David, both of whom are highly regarded trumpeters. Still, the idea of a father and son concert stayed with both men. And given the logical opportunity of Father’s Day this year, they thought it would be good to resurrect the family-band notion on a smaller scale, and front a Jazz Depot show. “I’ve only met a handful of people who’ve gotten to do this kind of thing with other family members,’ David concludes. “It’s a great feeling to get up there and play this stuff with your dad.”  - Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, 111 E. First St., upper level.  Sunday night from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.  Tickets can be purchased at the depot, from www.myticketoffice.com, or by calling Bettie Downing at 918-281-1008. General admission is $15, reserved table seating $20. Seniors and Jazz Hall members are admitted for $10 and high school and junior high students for $5.  All Armed Forces veterans will be able to see the concert for free. Free Covered Parking! Pam Van Dyke Crosby with Scott McQuade and Bill Crosby – Smoke on Cherry Street, Sunday night, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Shelby Eicher and Mark Bruner – Full Moon Café, Cherry Street, Sunday night, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jack Wolfe Quartet – Bodean’s, 51st & Harvard, Sunday night, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. June 17 MONDAY Musical Mondays with Rebecca Ungerman – Whole Foods, 41st & Peoria, Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Mark Bruner – Celebrity Club, Monday night, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Cypher 120 with Written Quincey as your host for open mike poetry. LIVE accompaniment by Elton Jewel on sax & Jordan Hehl on bass. Monday night, Blu Bar and Lounge, 111 N Main St, 8:00 p.m. Mike Cameron Trio (Jared Johnson, Scott McQuade & Mike Cameron) – Hodge’s Bend, 815 E 3rd, Monday night, 9:00 to 11:30 p.m. June 18 TUESDAY Jazz Depot Jam Session - Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, 111 E First, Upper Level.     Tuesday night, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.   Come play or come listen – FREE Stephanie Oliver with the Frank Brown Trio – Gilcrease Jazz Night, Tuesday night, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Paul Peress and Danny Draher – Jazz on the Plaza – Plaza del Sol, 101st and Mingo, Tuesday night, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. MidLife Crisis Band – Tuesdays in the Park, Broken Arrow Central Park on Main Street, Tuesday night, 7:00 p.m. Kings of Music, a 7 piece band that plays every Tuesday for ballroom dancing – Moose Lodge, 11106 E. 7th Street, Tuesday night, 7:30 to 9:45 p.m. Please support clubs and restaurants that hire jazz musicians! Jim and Jeanine  The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is a 501(c) (3), non-profit, cultural and educational organization. It exists to provide a system in and for the State of Oklahoma to preserve, promote and illuminate the true art forms of jazz, blues and gospel music; also identify, document and honor the artists who have made a significant contribution locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to its development. Additionally, the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame promotes educational learning, training, classes, performances and cultural events with and on behalf of disadvantaged youth of all races, creeds, religions and ethnic heritage and provides scholarships to graduating students. We celebrate the music of America.

2013 Young Artist Competition Recital at The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame

Oklahoma-Israeli Exchange Announces Winner

Young Artist Jordan Hehl to be showcased this Sunday

Sunday, for the first time ever, the past three winners of the Oklahoma Israel Exchange’s Young Artists Competition will perform on the same stage.

 Also for the first time ever, the newest winner is a bass player.

Tulsa jazz bassist Jordan Hehl recently won the 2013 competition, awarded in 2012 to Steven Schrag and in 2011 by Barron Ryan, who are both pianists. Of course, there are a lot fewer solo bassists than there are solo piano players, so when Hehl auditioned, he brought along a couple of his longtime musical cohorts: drummer Nicholas Foster and a pianist, who happened to be Schrag.

“I didn’t want it to be a solo audition, because I’m a bass player, and when you play bass, it’s all about how you play with a group,” Hehl explains. “A lot of the best bass playing is done under the other players; that’s the function of the instrument. It’s great to have a bass player who’s a good soloist, but you could have someone who never,

ever took a solo, and he could be the perfect bass player.”

Jordan Hehl

With that in mind, Hehl chose to audition with some pieces he enjoyed performing with the trio, rather than anything to show himself off.

 ”We opened up with `Billy’s Bounce,’ a Charlie Parker tune. I hadn’t had a chance to warm up because I was just coming in from work, and that’s the fastest song we did. So it was kind of intense and just for a second a little bit shaky, but we got it all together,” he remembers. “We did an original of mine, called `The Comedown,’ which I wrote for my senior project at TU, and then we did a tune by the Meters called `Stormy,’ a really mellow tune.

“They asked if we had anything else, and we picked a swing tune we all knew, `Bye, Bye Blackbird.’ That was one where I felt really comfortable and was able to step out a little bit.”

 ”It’s funny,” he adds with a chuckle. “Afterwards, they [the judges] said, `That wasn’t a very showy piece.’ I said, `Oh. Well, that’s the one I like playing the most.’ I was thinking, `Gosh, that was great’ and they were saying, `Well, you probably shouldn’t have played that one.’

“I’d guessed that some of them were musicians, but I wasn’t thinking about it much,” he recalls. “Then afterwards, they told me who they were. I said, `Thank you for not telling me before I started playing,’” he says with another chuckle.

 The judges for the Oklahoma Israel Exchange (OKIE) competition included the principal bassist and other members of the Israel Symphony Orchestra, a fact Hehl didn’t know until after his turn on stage.

Sunday, Hehl will bring the same trio to the Jazz Depot stage for his portion of the show. The three, known collectively as the Ghost Quartet, play Tuesdays as house band for the Depot’s jam sessions, Wednesdays for the Depot’s Jazzwich lunch-hour shows, and Thursdays at the Vault in Tulsa.

“We play three- and four-hour gigs all the time, so we’ve got a bunch of material together,” he says. “So [Sunday] we’ll do some originals and original arrangements. A lot of what we do with the Ghost Quartet is take rock songs and put our own weird spin on them. We just did Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon [at the Jazz Depot]. We do songs by Radiohead, and the Beatles’ `Come Together.’

Steven Schrag

“What we’re trying to do,’ he adds, “is take the jazz format and make it accessible to kids our age. When they hear a saxophone and acoustic bass and piano and drums, their ears automatically shut off and they say, `Well, okay, that’s jazz, and that’s not what I listen to.’ But if we do a song they recognize, then we can kind of introduce the format to them that way. I mean, we love the old standards, but I think a lot of the time when we play them we feel like we’re just imitators. What we’re trying to do is connect jazz with a lot of the music we grew up listening to.”

The OKIE Competition winners are set to begin at 5p.m. Sunday, June 8, at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, located in downtown Tulsa’s Jazz Depot, 111 E. First St. Tickets can be purchased at the depot, from www.myticketoffice.com, or by calling Bettie Downing at 918-281-1008. General admission is $15, reserved table seating $20. Seniors and Jazz Hall members are admitted for $10, and high school and junior high students for $5.

The event is a part of the Jazz Hall’s Summer Concert Series.

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is a 501(c)(3) non-profit cultural and educational organization, with a mission to inspire creativity and improve the quality of life for all Oklahomans through preservation, education, and performance of jazz, our uniquely American art form.

 

“Jazz Giving Moore” An All-Star Benefit on Thursday, June 6th at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame

Trumpeter and vocalist Jeff Shadley has dubbed the band assembled for Thursday’s benefit show the Disaster Relief Orchestra.

That name aptly describes his and the group’s mission, which is to aid victims of the recent Oklahoma tornadoes by raising money for the Tulsa Chapter of the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. But area jazz fans who know their players could just as easily give the aggregation another title: the A Team.

“I’ll have a lot of the usual guys who work with me, including Victor Anderson on saxophone and Dave Johnson on trumpet,” says Shadley. “Mike Bennett is also coming in to play trumpet, Steve Ham to play trombone, Mike Cameron on tenor sax, and I’ll have a couple of [NSU Jazz Studies director] Tommy Poole’s students in there, too, who’re both really good.

“I’ve got two great pianists, Chuck Gardner and Scott McQuade, who’ll be trading off throughout the show. And there’s a tremendous lead trombone player named Zac Lee who’s coming in from Oklahoma City to play with us. I offered to at least give him gas money, and he wouldn’t even take that.“

All of the musicians are donating their services, as are Tulsa media figures Julie Chin and Michele Lowry, the emcees for the evening, and vocalists Cindy Cain, Pam Van Dyke Crosby, Sarah Maud, Rebecca Ungerman, Ruby Shadley, and Shadley himself, the featured singers at Thursday’s event.

“Ruby, my daughter, also has a quartet that will sing a couple of a cappella songs,” notes Shadley. “They’re kind of a cross between jazz and barbershop. They have tenor, bass, baritone, and alto [voices], like barbershop, but they go a little bit beyond that.”

In addition to the vocal numbers, he adds, the band itself will be showcased on several other tunes throughout the course of the evening, including a couple featuring Mike Bennett’s trumpet work.

“We’ll go from seven until eight p.m. with a combo, so people will be able to see and hear their favorite players in a small-combo setting,” says Shadley. “Then we’ll switch to the big band and go from eight until ten.”

Many, if not most, of the musicians and vocalists assembled for the all-star program have headlined their own shows, at the Jazz Depot and elsewhere. Pam Van Dyke Crosby, for instance, top-lined a well-received show last month to debut her new CD, Jazz on a Summer’s Night – Late, and pianist Gardner, along with his vocalist wife Sandy, has the latest in a long series of Jazz Depot shows scheduled for June 23. Shadley himself is a veteran Tulsa musician who was doing Jazz Hall of Fame shows even before the organization’s 2007 move from the Greenwood Cultural Center to the Jazz Depot.

“On YouTube, there’s a video clip of me performing out there at Greenwood,” he says. ” I think the first thing I started doing with them was Dean Martin, with the Rat Pack show. That was quite a while back.”

Also on the bill is the Tulsa Rock Quartet, whose publicity material describes it as dedicated to “bridging the gap between the classical and rock performance worlds, as well as all the worlds in-between.” Formerly known as the Tulsa Rock Ensemble, the group debuted in 2009 with a Cain’s Ballroom appearance and has played dozens of concerts since.

“I just saw them play at Guthrie Green, and they were really good,” Shadley says. “They’re all Tulsa Symphony Orchestra musicians except for Laura Talbott, who’s a professor of violin at Oklahoma State University. They were doing songs by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, and they had a drummer with them who was right in the pocket, with a backbeat and everything.”

No admission will be charged for the event, but donations are encouraged. All the money raised will benefit the Tulsa Chapter of the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

“Everybody’s been doing their part to help our brothers and sisters in Moore during this tragic time,” says Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame CEO Jason McIntosh. “We’re glad to assist in any small way we can. This’ll be great talent helping a great cause, and we’re looking forward to everyone coming out and being a part of it.”

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is a 501(c)(3) non-profit cultural and educational organization, with a mission to inspire creativity and improve the quality of life for all Oklahomans through preservation, education, and performance of jazz, our uniquely American art form.