Cliff Bell's

DeSean Jones
2023-11-18 19:30 - 2023-11-19 09:30, 2023-11-19 19:30 - 2023-11-20 09:30, 2023-11-20 19:30 - 2023-11-21 09:30, 2023-11-21 19:30 - 2023-11-22 09:30, 2023-11-22 19:30 - 2023-11-23 09:30, 2023-11-23 19:30 - 2023-11-24 09:30, 2023-11-24 19:30 - 2023-11-25 09:30, 2023-11-25 19:30 - 2023-11-26 09:30 (America/Detroit) and 11 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.

the Planet D Nonet
2023-11-19 17:30 - 19:30
Showtimes are at 5:30p & 7:30p for this performance. Doors open at 4pm for dinner. Seating begins at 5pm for “Dinner & a Show”. The second show starts seating at 7pm.
The PD9 performs Harlem Jive by Fats Waller, swing era tunes by Duke Ellington, Benny Moten, Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson as well as the jumpin’ jive of Louis Jordan. Cofounded by RJ Spangler & James O’Donnell, the band has brought swing music to SE Michigan listeners and swing dancers since 2007. In that time the band has also performed in 10 states including some memorable gigs in New Orleans. In addition to the vocals of trumpeter James O’Donnell, the band also features the vocals of trombonist John “Tbone” Paxton and often featured artist Camille Price. The band has won NINE Motor City Music Awards. Saxes: Alex Colista, Christopher Tabacynski & Goode Wyche III, brass: James O’Donnell, Charlie Miller & Tbone Paxon, rhythm: Michael Zaporski, Trevor Lamb, Sean Perlmutter & RJ Spangler

Noah Jackson & Full Circle: Residency & Session
2023-11-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-11-29 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-12-06 19:30 - 21:30
Showtimes are 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.
Musicians pay no cover when they bring their instrument.
A Detroit original, Noah Jackson is a bassist, cellist, and composer specializing in black american music and classical music. Aimed with a curiosity to where sound could touch audiences from within, he has both written and performed music for large international audiences since 2010. A graduate of Michigan State University (B.M.), and Manhattan School of Music (M.M.), Noah has performed with world renowned artists such as NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim, Branford Marsails, Jason Marsalis, The Marsalis Family, Hugh Masekela, Nnenna Freelon, Kenny Garrett, Wizard Harper, George Burton, Jazzmeia Horn, and Christian Sands. Additionally, he’s performed in many prominent venues and jazz festivals including Radio City Music Hall, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Blue Note Jazz Club (New York City and Milan), Royal Albert Hall, Victoria Hall (Geneva), Jazz in Marciac (Marciac, France), The Library of Congress, The Kennedy Center, SFJAZZ, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, London Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, and North Sea Jazz Festival. Noah Jackson also performed as part of the ceremony for the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 2019. He also recorded bass and cello on The Balance with Abdullah Ibrahim which reached #3 on the Billboard Jazz Charts (June 2019).
As a band leader, Noah had put on performances of original creative work with his band Full Circle. In 2011, he made his self-produced debut album, Contemplations- A Suite to critical acclaim and led Full Circle in the Detroit Jazz Festival in 2012. Since then, Noah has collaborated with a wide variety of artists across the jazz spectrum. In 2017, he has worked in collaboration with the American Ballet Theater with his string quartet Asè at Grace Farms in New Canaan, CT. Noah, along with vocalist and co-producer Candice Hoyes, were named recipients of grants for a double jazz and string quartet project: Ellington to the World: Generational Power in Black Culture and Spaces from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York Council of the Arts. The work premiered at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in September 2019 and was performed to a sold out audience in The CUBE @ DSO in February 2020. As of March 2021, Noah has joined Cliff Bell’s in Detroit as Curator and Artist-in-Residence where he will perform with his group Full Circle and host sessions as well as bring in world-class talent to perform on it’s stage.
Noah is endorsed by Aguilar Amps, David Gage REAList LifeLine pickups, and NOAH Guitars of Italy. Noah currently resides in Detroit, Michigan.
Find out more about Noah here!

Closed for the Holiday
2023-11-23

Salim Washington
2023-11-25 19:30 - 21:30
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
Salim Washington is the inaugural International Visiting Professor of African American and African
Diasporic Studies at Columbia University. Prof Washington is also a cluster leader/ HOD (head of
department) of Performing Arts, and a Professor at University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (Durban, South
Africa). Composer & reedsman, he performs on the flute, tenor saxophone, oboe, and bass clarinet.
He also studied other instruments including mbira and hand drums.
Prof Washington is a widely published scholar of black culture and music. His interests include the
Black Atlantic, Afro futurism, Jazz and other vernacular musics, Diasporic film and literature.
Washington is now completing the following titles: Beautiful Nightmare: John Coltrane, Jazz, and
American Culture and Notes from Mzansi: The South African Jazz Imaginary.
Salim performing at the Pan African Space Station in Cape Town, South Africa 2021
Salim and Sankofa performing his composition “Oshun”

the William Hill 111 Trio
2023-11-26 17:30 - 19:30
Showtimes are at 5:30p & 7:30p for this performance. Doors open at 4pm for dinner. Seating begins at 5pm for “Dinner & a Show”. The second show starts seating at 7pm.
William Hill III is a pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader from Detroit, Michigan. Hill is a graduate of the Detroit School of Arts, and is currently studying at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music undergoing his baccalaureate education. In Hill’s pre-collage years, he has been a member of the Detroit Symphony’s Civic Youth Jazz program performing in the Creative Jazz Ensembe and the Civic Jazz Orchestra and the Michigian State Univeristy Spartan Youth Jazz Program.
Hill has had the opportunity to participate in many summer extensive jazz camps such as Jazz House Kids, Jr. Jazz Academy at Lincoln Center, Berklee Summer Programs, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Motown Lyric Project, Keeping an Eye Summer Jazz Workshop located at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and many others.
Hill is honored to receive awards from programs such as the National YoungArts Foundation, a multi-year winner in the instrumental contemporary category for the NAACP ACT-SO National Competition, and the West Virginia Univeristy International Jazz Piano Competition. Musicians that Hill has worked alongside and have been mentored by include Marion Hayden, Ralphe Armstrong, Wendell Harrison, Joe Farnsworth, Marc Cary, Aaron Parks, Ari Hoenig, Wynton Marsalis, Buster Williams, Christian McBride and many more.
Hill has had the opportunity to perform at the Detroit International Jazz Festival, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, Cliff Bells, Blue Llama Jazz Club, Montclair Jazz Festival, Smalls Jazz Club, The Django, and many others to name a few. Hill’s passion in life as a musician is to spread joy to everyone around the world with the music that he produces.

The Dennard Deas Daher Trio
2023-11-30 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-12-02 19:30 - 21:30
SHOWTIMES ARE 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.
The Dennard Deas Daher Trio harnesses raw, rhythmic, and spiritual improvisational energy in their explorations of the open space of the chordless trio. The group flows between standards, original compositions, and conceptually structured free improvisations in their sonic journeys through the eternal present.

https://vimeo.com/683075660/9775137e48

https://vimeo.com/381277173/ba10dc1035

Closed for a Private Event
2023-12-01

The Dennard Deas Daher Trio
2023-12-03 17:30 - 19:30
Showtimes are at 5:30p & 7:30p for this performance. Doors open at 4pm for dinner. Seating begins at 5pm for “Dinner & a Show”. The second show starts seating at 7pm.
Doors open at 5pm for dinner. Seating begins at 6pm for “Dinner & a Show”. The second show starts seating at 9pm.
The Dennard Deas Daher Trio harnesses raw, rhythmic, and spiritual improvisational energy in their explorations of the open space of the chordless trio. The group flows between standards, original compositions, and conceptually structured free improvisations in their sonic journeys through the eternal present.

https://vimeo.com/683075660/9775137e48

https://vimeo.com/381277173/ba10dc1035
