Cliff Bell's

Richie Goods Project
2021-10-08 19:30 - 23:30 (America/Detroit)
There will be two seatings at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance.
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NY bassist Richie Goods, one of the most versatile and accomplished bass players on the scene today and the youngest person ever inducted into the Pittsburgh Jazz Hall of Fame, came to prominence while touring and recording with the late Mulgrew Miller and credits him for much of his success. Richie went on to make a name for himself through recording and touring with a variety of jazz and popular artists including Sting, The Headhunters, Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band, Lenny White, Milt Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Christina Aguilera. His lengthy discography also includes Grammy award-winning and platinum albums of Alicia Keys and Common. Richie most recently toured with popular jazz trumpeter, Chris Botti for over 5 years.
Known for his ability to “lay down the groove”, Richie infuses funk and gospel influences in his music. He tours the US and internationally extensively, including notable performances at the Monterrey, Montreal, Mendocino, Atlanta, Detroit, San Jose and Jakarta Java Jazz Festivals as well as the Punta del Este International Jazz Festival. Richie, a native Pittsburgher, graduated from the Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing Arts and the prestigious jazz program at Berklee College in Boston and studied with such luminaries as Ron Carter and
Ray Brown. Richie received critical acclaim for his first recording with Nuclear Fusion –“Richie Goods & Nuclear Fusion Live at the Zinc Bar” (2009), which was followed by “THREE RIVERS” in 2015.
Richie’s latest release, recorded with his current band, THE GOODS PROJECT, is a tribute to his mentor. “My Left Hand Man – A Tribute to Mulgrew Miller” spent 16 weeks on the JazzWeek charts, 8 in the top 20. As one critic observed, Richie Goods truly has music in his
DNA –“a master musician whose tenure with many of music’s greatest names clearly has worn off on him…”

DeSean Jones
2021-10-07 19:30 - 2021-10-08 09:30, 2021-10-06 19:30 - 2021-10-07 09:30, 2021-10-05 19:30 - 2021-10-06 09:30, 2021-10-04 19:30 - 2021-10-05 09:30, 2021-10-03 19:30 - 2021-10-04 09:30, 2021-10-02 19:30 - 2021-10-03 09:30, 2021-10-01 19:30 - 2021-10-02 09:30, 2021-09-30 19:30 - 2021-10-01 09:30 and 13 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 Shawn Maxwell Quartet
2021-10-07 19:30 - 23:30
As a composer, recording artist and performer, saxophonist Shawn Maxwell has endeavored to express his own unique voice. From his latest album Millstream (Jazzline, 2020) to his debut Originals (self-released, 2005), he has released nine albums of original compositions. The traditions of jazz form the foundation for Shawn’s music; he builds on that with material from the music he grew up with – rock, funk, hip hop, R&B, classical. The result, as Hrayr Attarian wrote in Chicago Jazz Magazine, “is refreshingly distinct yet recognizably Maxwellian”. He’s not intent on following any rules – or on breaking them – but on continually expanding what his music encompasses.
For the past three years, Shawn has been touring the U.S. with his quintet Shawn Maxwell’s New Tomorrow. Their first album, Shawn Maxwell’s New Tomorrow (OA2/Origin, 2016), was named one of Downbeat Magazine’s “Best Albums of 2017”. The follow-up, Music in My Mind (OA2/Origin, 2018), was highly praised by critics and enthusiastically received by radio stations. It was chosen as a Downbeat Magazine Editor’s Pick in June 2018.

Closed for a Private Event
2021-10-02 00:00 - 23:59
See you tomorrow for Roger Jones & Higher Calling!

Neal Anderson Quintet
2021-09-26 19:30 - 23:30
There will be two seatings at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance.
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The Neal Anderson Quintet celebrates the release of their second album, “Why Wait?”

Exploring a genre they call avant-groove, the quintet brings odd-meter, polyrhythm, and free improvisation to a groove setting. Thoughtful melodies and electro-acoustic harmonies float over cerebral compositional structures in their original music.

Comprised of creative minds based in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Detroit, and Chicago, the quintet has performed together since 2015.

Michael J. Reed & Friends Album Release Show
2021-09-25 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-09-24 19:30 - 23:30, 2021-09-23 19:30 - 23:30
There will be two seatings at 7:30pm & 9:30pm for this performance
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Michael J. Reed is a jazz drummer currently based in East Lansing, Mi. Michael maintains an active performing career throughout the Midwest, performing throughout Northwest Ohio, Detroit and New York with artists such as Rodney Whitaker, Dwight Adams, Diego Rivera, Tim Ries’ Rolling Stones Project, Trunino Lowe, Nicole New, Walter White, Rick Margitza, Steve Davis, Mark Whitfield, Melissa Aldana, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sachal Vasandani, Damion Sneed, Karen Clark Sheard, Michelle Lordi, the MSU Bebop Spartans all over Michigan and Japan, Ramona Collins, The Dr. Phillips Center Jazz Orchestra in Orlando, Fl and many others.

Michael leads his own groups, which has performed at Cliff Bell’s, the Ohio Theatre, the Toledo Museum of Art, the former Degage Jazz Café, UrbanBeat, and Blue LLama Jazz Club. Michael recently released his second album entitled, Remove All Fear, as well as his first album as bandleader and composer, entitled A Walk of Perspective, in 2018. Michael had the opportunity to record with Rodney Whitaker, and other artists such as Chloe and the Steel Strings, and the Gazebo.

King ALXNDR
2021-09-19 19:30 - 23:30
There will be 2 separate seatings at 7:30 and 9:30pm for this performance.
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Alexander is yet another talent force to come from Marcus Belgrave’s renowned Civic Jazz Youth Ensemble. Now eagerly accepting the torch as part of the next generation of Detroit musicians, White is currently touring internationally with the James Carter Organ Trio. When he is not hitting the stage in Spain, France, Poland or Italy, he can be seen around town playing with various artists including De’Sean Jones and Knomadik, The Marcus Elliot Quartet, Rafael Statin, Sky Covington and Club Crescendo, Ralph Armstrong and Damon Warmack.

Barry Stephenson: The Iconoclast
2021-09-18 19:30 - 23:30
New York City-based acoustic/electric bassist and composer BARRY STEPHENSON has been acclaimed as “one of the most sought-after bassists on the scene today.” Released in 2020, Barry’s The Iconoclast was nominated for the NAACP Image Award® for Outstanding Jazz Album (Instrumental), and was notably the only independently-produced album in a category that included work by Jon Batiste, George Burton, Christian Sands, and Immanuel Wilkins. The Iconoclast was also named by Offbeat magazine as one of the Top 50 Albums of 2020.
Barry has performed and toured extensively with TV personality, musician, and bandleader Jon Batiste and Stay Human, including regular appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and performances at a variety of festi-

vals, including the Monterey, Montreaux, Mon- treal, Newport, North Sea, Umbria, and Playboy Jazz festivals; he has also performed at Bonna- roo and Lollapalooza. Barry has also been featured on recent episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Godfather of Harlem.
Barry has performed with many international- ly-recognized jazz, blues, and soul artists, including Nicholas Payton, David Sanborn, Seal, the late Freddie Cole, Diane Schuur, Marc Cary-Jamison Ross, Sullivan Fortner, Jazzmeia Horn, Herlin Riley, the late Henry Butler, Mark Whitfield, Tim Warfield, Russell Gunn, Christian Sands, Cyrille Aimee, Etienne Charles, Marcus Printup, Davell Crawford, Rodney Green, and Theo Croker.
