Cliff Bell's

DeSean Jones
2022-06-12 19:30 - 2022-06-13 09:30, 2022-06-13 19:30 - 2022-06-14 09:30, 2022-06-14 19:30 - 2022-06-15 09:30, 2022-06-15 19:30 - 2022-06-16 09:30, 2022-06-16 19:30 - 2022-06-17 09:30, 2022-06-17 19:30 - 2022-06-18 09:30, 2022-06-18 19:30 - 2022-06-19 09:30, 2022-06-19 19:30 - 2022-06-20 09:30 (America/Detroit) and 16 more dates
De’Sean Jones is a Detroit based saxophonist, billboard charting recording artist and grammy nominated arranger. Over the past 20 years De’Sean has toured the world recording or performing with music Icons like Stevie Wonder, Faith Evans, along with a host of Detroit Legends; Marcus Belgrave, The Clark Sisters, Kierra Sheard and techno pioneer Mad Mike Banks of Underground Resistance.
As a bandleader & producer Jones has curated an eclectic approach that is widely viewed as progressive and undeniably rooted in the rich history of black culture. De’Sean actively pushes the boundaries of social consciousness through music in ways that are authentic, emotionally dynamic and intellectually stimulating.

All musical projects from De’Sean Jones can be accessed through his record label KNMDK Records.

Spare Parts
2022-06-16 19:30 - 23:00
Showtimes are at 7:30p & 9:30p for this performance.
(Doors open at 5pm for dinner/Seating begins at 6:15p for the first show & 9:00p for the second show) ***********************************************************************************
Spare Parts is an instrumental trio that pushes well beyond the jazz funk spectrum in
which it thrives. Driven by vintage keyboards (Kevin Kozol), electric bass (Colin Scott)
and drums (Mike Bruno), Spare Parts recalls the aesthetics of the analog era through a
fresh and modern approach. Known for their hard hitting grooves, dynamic
improvisation and collaborations with Chicago’s finest musicians, Spare Parts has won
a loyal following over the years. The band has several releases on Ropeadope Records
and has received accolades from across the industry including Ukvibe.org,
Notreble.com, and Modern Jazz (MOJA) Radio.
Spare Parts has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and beyond, while becoming a mainstay on the Chicago scene. From dive bars to prominent jazz clubs, theaters and festivals, Spare Parts has played countless shows and held several successful residencies. Members of the band have performed with Grammy winning artists Victor Wooten, Paul Wertico, and Michael Bolton, as well as Fareed Haque, Stephen Perkins, Lenny Pickett, Bill Dickens, Javon Jackson, George Brooks, Vikku Vinayakram, V. Selvaganesh and Garaj Mahal. Spare Parts has shared the stage with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Snoop Dogg, Vulfpeck, George Porter Jr., The Wailers, Forq, Kneebody, The New Mastersounds, Wayne Krantz, Chester Thompson, Alan Evans, Stanton Moore, and many more.
Visit spareapartsmusic.com for more!

Thaddeus Tukes
2022-06-18 19:30 - 23:00, 2022-06-19 19:30 - 23:00
Showtimes are at 7:30p & 9:30p for this performance.
(Doors open at 5pm for dinner/Seating begins at 6:15p for the first show & 9:00p for the second show) ***********************************************************************************
Thaddeus Tukes is America’s rising star vibraphonist. A Chicago native, Tukes is a jazz composer, arranger, and percussionist who “brings poetry to the vibraphone” (Chicago Tribune). Mr. Tukes is a graduate of Whitney M. Young Magnet High School and Northwestern University, where he studied jazz vibraphone and piano. He has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Center in Chicago, the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, and most recently traveled with his Chicago Freedom Ensemble to play the World Expo 2020 Dubai as the “world’s greatest vibraphonist.” From hosting multi-generational jam sessions to “keeping jazz alive on the South Side,” Tukes has emerged as a shining force in the Chicago and American jazz scene. Tukes has performed with a variety of artists including Victor Goines, Roy Hargrove, Nicole Mitchell, Ari Brown, and Chance the Rapper. When not performing, Tukes can be found leading percussion ensembles at various elementary and high schools in the Chicago area.

Gerard Gibbs & ORGANized Crime
2022-06-23 19:30 - 23:00
There will be two shows at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance.
(Seatings begin at 5pm & 8:45pm respectively)
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Gerard Gibbs, leader and producer of Gerard Gibbs & ORGANized Crime, conceived the idea to form this group in order to both commemorate the teachings of his mentor, the late Richard “Groove” Holmes, and to fully embrace his love for the Hammond B-3 organ and the electric keyboards. He has been playing keyboards and organ for 35 years, and attributes his accomplishments and overall musical development to the late organist as well as his father and mother, and the many local and national musicians who worked with him along the way. Gibbs currently leads this band, and tours nationally and internationally playing piano, keyboards and organ for saxophonist James Carter.

Caili O'Doherty "Quarantine Dream" CD Release Show
2022-07-02 19:30 - 23:30
Showtimes are at 7:30p & 9:30p for this performance. (Doors open at 5pm for dinner/Seating begins at 6:15p for the first show & 9:00p for the second show) ***********************************************************************************
New York-based pianist, composer, arranger and educator, Caili O’Doherty, is known
for integrating structures of language in both her compositions and her approach to
improvisation. Her recent music focuses on the celebration, preservation, and expansion
upon the achievements of unsung women heroes in jazz. O’Doherty holds a Bachelor of Music in performance from Berklee College of Music and a Master of Music in performance from Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College.
She has received national awards for piano performance and composition from the ASCAP
Foundation and Downbeat Magazine. Praised by All About Jazz for its “exquisitely forged,
dramatic and darkly hued pieces”, O’Doherty’s debut release Padme (2015) uses lyrics to
give the melodies a natural rhythm of language. Padme was selected as a Downbeat
Magazine Editor’s pick and received a 4-star review in All About Jazz. O’Doherty has
performed at the Kimmel Center, SF Jazz, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Panama Jazz Festival,
Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, concert halls throughout China and UNESCO First
International Jazz Day in Paris, as well as two US State Dept. supported tours to
Colombia and Togo and Benin in West Africa.
Currently performing throughout NYC and touring as a bandleader and side-musician, O’Doherty also works in the education department at Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) as a piano accompanist for the WeBop early childhood jazz education program. She leads educational performances in New York City schools about jazz, democracy and civil rights as a bandleader for JALC’s Jazz for Young People program. O’Doherty has been a faculty member at the Stanford Jazz Workshop since 2012, as well as faculty at the University of Wisconsin Madison Summer Music Clinic and Litchfield Jazz Camp.
In 2021, she received a Chamber Music America Presenters Consortium for Jazz Grant in partnership with the Harlem Jazz Museum, New Orleans Jazz Museum, and Alabama Women in Jazz Festival to present her newest project, “Caili O’Doherty: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong”, featuring her arrangements of compositions by pianist, composer, and vocalist Lil Hardin Armstrong. O’Doherty is releasing her second album as a bandleader, and first release with Posi-Tone Records entitled Quarantine Dream later in 2022, followed by a U.S. CD release tour.

CLOSED for Fourth of July
2022-07-03 00:00 - 23:59
Happy Fourth of July!
We will return July 7th for Full Circle Wednesday!
Enjoy your holiday and make your reservations for this week!
