Trumpeter/vocalist James O’Donnell has been entertaining Detroit audiences for years. He has toured around the globe and lived in Mexico City. He brings plenty of swing and humor to whatever he does! James grew up listening to Detroit trumpet great Johnny Trudell. His teachers and mentors included Carlos B. Rivera, who taught Curtis Fuller, as...Read More
David Thomas is a multi-instrumentalist, with his primary instruments being the piano and the trumpet. He is from Rochester Hills, Michigan. He began taking piano lessons with Mrs. Christine Gahman when he was 7 years old and finished his high school piano training with Mrs. Shawn Panek. His trumpet career began in the 6th grade....Read More
Jeff Cuny is the chief arranger & bassist for the Planet D Nonet and appears around the city with the singer & trombonist Tbone Paxton. Every Friday he leads the house trio at Cliff Bell’s. This is his first time doing a project of his own. 1st set-Jeffry Cuny’s Cool Sextet will do the music...Read More
Deeply steeped in the generations of great Jazz and Blues that centers the rich musical legacy of Detroit (which includes Kenn Cox, Donald Walden, Marcus Belgrave and Thomas “Beans” Bowles), Shahida Nurullah is one of the motor city’s premier and most treasured jazz vocalists. Her outstanding musical intelligence is vibrantly reflected through a versatile repertoire...Read More
Trumpeter/vocalist James O’Donnell has been entertaining Detroit audiences for years. He has toured around the globe and lived in Mexico City. He brings plenty of swing and humor to whatever he does! James grew up listening to Detroit trumpet great Johnny Trudell. His teachers and mentors included Carlos B. Rivera, who taught Curtis Fuller, as...Read More
Matt LoRusso has toured internationally throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East. He has been an active member in the Anthony Stanco Quintet, Carlos Whitlow and Generation Praise, the Smith/Hughes Quintet and has played with numerous award winning groups such as Lansing based organ jazz trio, Organissimo, and early swing “little” big band, the...Read More
Lifelong buddy’s RJ Spangler & Tbone Paxton started working together in 1980 with a very popular band around Detroit called the Sun Messengers. They toured the east coast, Midwest and deep south for a number of years. Back then Tbone was awarded a Motor City Music Award for best trombonist. Since that time, he has...Read More
There will be two separate seating’s for this performance at 6pm and at 8pm. Award winning vocalist & songwriter, Monique Ella Rose returns to Cliff Bell’s to perform 2 Shows in one night on Sunday, Nov. 1st, 2020 at 6PM and 8PM. Join Monique Ella Rose as she shares a repertoire of jazz standards, covers,...Read More
Paul VornHagen is an accomplished jazz saxophonist, flutist, and vocalist who has won Detroit Music Awards on six separate occasions and categories: Jazz Reeds, Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, Instrumentalist, World Music Recording (2) and Jazz Recording. Presently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan where Paul got his start on the flute in 1972. Mostly self-taught initially,...Read More
Two great vocalists in one great show! You’ll hear fabulously arranged duets, in addition to their individual repertoire. Backed by a killer trio Featuring Pianist Scott Gwinnell, Rocco Popielarski on Bass, and Bang Glen on Drums Meri Slaven is a jazz vocalist presently performing in and around the Detroit Area. She grew up in the...Read More
