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SUMMARY:ELEW
DESCRIPTION:There will be two separate seatings at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance. Doors open at 5pm for dinner. Seating begins at 6pm for “Dinner & a Show”. The second show starts seating at 9pm.\nWith Detroit’s own Louis Jones on the drums and Noah Jackson on bass. \nA native of Camden\, New Jersey\, Eric Lewis began his musical studies at 2 years old and would ultimately receive the Rodger’s and Hammerstein full merit scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music. A Dean’s List student\, upon graduation\, he toured the world\, recorded and performed with Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra\, Elvin Jones\, Cassandra Wilson\, Roy Hargrove\, and John Hendricks among others. In 1999\, Eric won the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition\, at the time\, the most coveted prize in all of Jazz. A decade into his career\, he reemerged as ELEW and began fusing his piano techniques with rock guitar-based ideas and experimental prepared piano methods\, generating a powerful crossover brand he coined “Rockjazz”. Over the course of multiple award winning\, critically acclaimed albums\, ELEW has re-imagined songs by The Killers\, Nirvana\, Coldplay and Michael Jackson to name a few. Throughout his career he has built an elite fanbase of some of the most distinguished leaders and celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio\, Gerard Butler\, Barack and Michele Obama\, Prince Albert II\, Will Smith\, Eli Roth\, Al Pacino and the list goes on… Inspired by the European masters of Baroque Counterpoint\, ELEW has innovated the technique of simultaneously executing two independent melodies which precisely detail harmonic forms bursting with idiomatic verisimilitude and wide ranging historical references while flawlessly maintaining the idiosyncratic Afrocentric timing at the core of Jazz improvisation. \nHe has named this technique Counterbop. His album Cubism – ELEW plays Rosenwinkel\, a solo piano exploration of contemporary jazz legend Kurt Rosenwinkel provides perspective an insight into the nature of what Counterbop is and how it may be implemented. In addition to piano performance\, appearing in and scoring for film\, ELEW is a prominent international DJ. He has has created disco infernos for multiple events such as The World Economic Forum\, TED\, Art Basel\, A-list Oscar parties\, the Monte-Carlo Gala\, the Cannes Film Festival and multiple celebrity birthdays and weddings. In some cases\, ELEW places the turntables within the piano\, seamlessly executing transitions and improvisations all while generating a pleasing frenzy on the dance floor. This has lead to him creating yet another brilliant innovation he calls Piano Turntablism . He literally plays two different yet recognizable songs simultaneously as a Dj would but on the Piano. All while maintaining the type of euphoric atmosphere one would experience at an over-the-top Las Vegas mega club or an epic music\nfestival. ELEW is a genuine master of the piano and artistic genius.
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SUMMARY:James Carter Organ Trio Presents:  Yule Log of Soul & Swing
DESCRIPTION:Showtimes are at 7:30p & 9:30p for this performance. Doors open at 5pm for dinner. Seating begins at 6pm for “Dinner & a Show”. The second show starts seating at 9pm.\n\n\n\nProgram to include the music of Django Reinhardt\, lots of your favorite standards\, and lots of your favorite Christmas tunes. An effusive\, dynamically gifted jazz saxophonist\, James Carter caused a critical uproar when he appeared on the New York jazz scene\, having moved from his native Detroit in the early ’90s. Carter’s debut recording\, JC on the Set\, issued in Japan when he was only 23 and in the States a year later in 1993\, was universally acclaimed as the finest debut by a saxophonist in decades. He has continued to build upon these early accolades\, exploring the music of Django Reinhardt on 2000’s Chasin’ the Gypsy\, displaying his classical skills on 2011’s Caribbean Rhapsody\, and working with his soulful organ trio on 2019’s Live from Newport Jazz. \n  Born in 1969 in Detroit\, Carter began playing at age 11 and studied early on with trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. A prodigy\, he progressed quickly and by 1986 at age 17 joined Wynton Marsalis on tour. Two years later\, he became a member of Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy upon relocating to New York. Carter issued no less than six recordings under his own name between 1993 and 2000\, all of them with different focuses\, from a set of standards\, Conversin’ with the Elders in 1995\, to an electric funk record\, Layin’ in the Cut\, to a simultaneously released set in tribute to Django Reinhardt\, Chasin the Gypsy. Three years later\, he honored the legendary Billie Holiday with Gardenias for Lady Day. \n  Moving from Columbia to Warner Bros.\, Carter’s Live at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge followed in spring 2004. Another live session\, Out of Nowhere\, was released in 2005 on the independent label Half Note. There were also sessions and live dates with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra\, Cyrus Chestnut\, Rodney Whitaker\, Frank Lowe\, the late Julius Hemphill\, pop-jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux\, Ronald Shannon Jackson\, Tough Young Tenors\, and the Charles Mingus Big Band. In 2008\, he released Present Tense on Universal Jazz. Carter followed that up a year later with the live album Heaven on Earth\, featuring a jazz supergroup including\, among others\, organist John Medeski and bassist Christian McBride. \n \n   In 2011\, Carter delivered Caribbean Rhapsody\, his collaboration with classical composer Roberto Sierra featuring the piece “Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra.” Honing his craft to a jaw-dropping technical level\, Carter is the master of a family of saxophones\, flute and clarinet. His is a powerhouse virtuosity likened by composer Roberto Sierra to the great Paganini. It was in fact this astounding instrumental flexibility\, coupled with an eclectic body of recordings that inspired the Spanish maestro to write the celebrated Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra for the 31-year-old. Written expressly for Carter and mixing Jazz\, Latin and classical elements\, the work showcases the multi-instrumentalist’s outstanding technical virtuosity whilst allowing him “the freedom to improvise.” \nThe four-movement piece sees Carter take center stage throughout\, executing swift instrument transitions between Tenor and Soprano and employing a full gamut of musical expression\, from furiously-fast Coltrane like tempo to a quiet ballad.  \nA concert album\, Live from Newport Jazz\, recorded with his organ trio at the long-running festival\, arrived in 2019\, reaching the top 10 of Billboard’s Jazz Albums chart. More eclectic projects followed\, including 2022’s D(IVO)\, the debut album from Carter’s adventurous saxophone quartet with Tim Berne\, Tony Malaby\, and Ivo Perelman. He also joined Perelman for 2022’s Reed Rapture in Brooklyn. The following year\, he showcased his outsized baritone saxophone skills on the solo recording Un (Unaccompanied Baritone Saxophone). \nEarly 2023 brought Carter to the NYC Blue Note as special guest with DJ Logic and with Galactic. His capacious ability to cross boundaries\, mesh genres\, and deliver it all with mindboggling energy\, clarity and that “special something” that brings audiences to their feet clamoring for more.  \n2023 also saw James Carter bring his Quintet to Birdland in the debut presentation of Lookin’ at Lock: The Music of Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis\, featuring Satish Robertson on trumpet\, Gerard Gibbs on piano\, Hilliard Greene on bass\, and Kahlil Kwame Bell on drums. Carter brings his Quintet to the Syracuse Jazz Festival on 29 June 2024 and returns to Birdland 13-17 August 2024.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cliffbells.com/event/james-carter-organ-trio-3/2025-12-20/
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