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Tonight: Live Jazz in Los Angeles

toniotonio 22 Posts
edited December 2008 in Announcements
Buster Williams, Bennie Maupin, Jeff "Tain" Watts and John Beasley play the Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles December 4-6, 2008/b1b, 21b, 21Bandleader JOHN BEASLEY/b1 assembles bassist Buster Williams/b1 and multi-reedist Bennie Maupin/b1, two original members of Herbie Hancock's/b1 Sextet (Mwandishi and Sextant), along with drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts/b1, who has performed on every Grammy Award winning jazz record by both Wynton/b1 and Branford Marsalis/b1, to play music from Beasley's 2009 GRAMMY considered latest CD Letter to Herbie, a tribute album to Herbie Hancock/b1.b, 21b, 21"Every night Hancock???s/b1 creative and groundbreaking Sextet played you would hear each song morph into new music," says Beasley/b1. "Hancock/b1 inspired musicians to evolve continually and to stretch their musical horizon." Beasley???s Jazz Circle/b1 brings the spirit and talent of those indelible performances to today's stage with eclectic arrangements of Hancock/b1 tunes mashed with a few of Beasley's/b1 songs.b, 21b, 21img src="http://www.resonancerecords.org/_img/beasley-flyer.jpg"1
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