BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Cliff Bell's - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Cliff Bell's
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cliffbells.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Cliff Bell's
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Detroit
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20160313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20161106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20170312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20171105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20180311T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20181104T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20190310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20191103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20200308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20201101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190406T213000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190406T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T001104
CREATED:20190111T191321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T142536Z
UID:10000760-1554586200-1554586200@cliffbells.com
SUMMARY:The Bill Heid Trio
DESCRIPTION:Keyboardist/vocalist Bill Heid was born August 11\, 1948\, in Pittsburgh\, PA. A natural and virtuosic musician who was inspired to play jazz and blues by listening to the radio\, he played in both piano and organ groups. His brother is the well-respected drummer and producer George Heid. Originally influenced by Jimmy Smith and Don Patterson\, Heid heard the chitlin’ circuit greats at the Hurricane Bar\, including Smith and Patterson\, Jack McDuff\, Jimmy McGriff\, and Dr. Lonnie Smith. Down the street at the Crawford Grill were the jazz bands led by Freddie Hubbard\, Max Roach\, Gene Harris\, Bobby Timmons\, and Wynton Kelly. \nOn occasion he would sit in with some of these groups and pester them for information. Spending time in Chicago and later in New York\, he met and hung out with his mentor\, Larry Young\, often visiting the family-owned Newark Club in Young’s hometown of Newark\, NJ. He was also privy to playing with the best organ drummers like Joe Dukes and Billy James. And he heard the local contingent of jazz greats like Ahmad Jamal\, Art Blakey\, Erroll Garner\, George Benson\, Eddie Jefferson\, Mary Lou Williams\, and Stanley Turrentine. \nHis quest for musical knowledge found him on the road when in 1963\, in search of rare 78-rpm rhythm & blues records\, he began a journey/career of hitchhiking. He did this in the contiguous 48 states of the U.S.; through Canada\, Mexico\, the Philippines\, Japan\, Korea\, and China; and to the Thailand/Cambodia border. His over 400\,000 documented miles of thumbing a ride gained Heid a spot in The Guinness Book of World Records. Some of his journeys led him to the so-called chicken houses and organ rooms of major cities\, where he interned with Jimmy Witherspoon\, Jimmy Ponder\, Sonny Stitt\, Grant Green\, David “Fathead” Newman\, Ira Sullivan\, and Mickey Roker\, and was a pianist with Don Patterson. \nA move to Chicago brought him closer to the urban blues as he worked or recorded with Muddy Waters\, John Lee Hooker\, and especially Son Seals\, Koko Taylor\, Fenton Robinson\, and Roy Buchanan. He also did two LPs and played in the bands of contemporary jazz guitarist Henry Johnson. Moving to Detroit\, he spent two decades there playing in his own groups; helping to revive the career of a local legend of blues guitar and vocals\, Johnnie Bassett\, as the music director of his Blues Insurgents; and backing the veteran singer Alberta Adams. During and since his time in Detroit\, Heid could be found making music soundtracks for adult films in Los Angeles\, then touring worldwide for the U.S. State Department as a jazz ambassador\, particularly on tours of Japan and Vietnam. In August 2003\, Heid played more of the Pacific Rim in Sri Lanka\, Indonesia\, Malaysia\, and Singapore. \nUpon moving back to the Eastern United States\, he could be heard on organ and piano engagements at various venues in the Washington\, D.C.\, area. Of his mindset\, Heid was quoted as saying “I can’t live a day without playing 1-4-5s\,” incorporating those standard blues changes with cool McCoy Tyner minor riffs\, vicious funk songs in Japanese\, and what he calls Talifunk. “I approach this thing like total war and have been lucky to have avoided a day job.” His hip vernacular\, unique vocal language\, and risqué sense of humor\, melded with his passion for baseball\, have made him an \nArtist Biography by Michael G. Nastos
URL:https://cliffbells.com/event/the-bill-heid-trio-2/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cliffbells.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BillHeid.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170608T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170608T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T001104
CREATED:20170331T163642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T142409Z
UID:10000337-1496952000-1496952000@cliffbells.com
SUMMARY:Philippe LeJeune
DESCRIPTION:French pianist Philippe LeJeune is a perfect example of the mixture of jazz & blues which is especially an important strain in the jazz tradition. The young pianist attended a 1968 concert in Reims\, France\, by master boogie-woogie and blues pianist Memphis Slim\, and immediately put an end to his classical efforts and began teaching himself the blues\, scouring local record shops for LP’s by boogie woogie greats. In 1980 he was invited by Memphis Slim who had been a parisian citizen since 1962 to cut an album titled « Dialog In Boogie » as a piano duet. The French blues and boogie woogie pianist is one of those rare European pianist who is able to take part in the grand tradition of American jazz mixing swing\, a sense of melody and the blues. His playing is always a brilliant assortment of sobriety and expressiveness. He plays blues and boogie-woogie with a light\, almost delicate touch\, and weaves subtle\, varied right-hand figures around the solid left-hand boogie-woogie beat. His repertoire ranges from classic barrelhouse boogie woogie piano to Duke Ellington and Horace Silver tunes as well those of Milt Jackson and George Gershwin. LeJeune explores an impressive variety of blues styles and grooves\, leaving listeners with a happy feeling.
URL:https://cliffbells.com/event/philippe-lejeune/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR