“Mode Detroit” Jazz at Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center

Friday December 18, 2009 – 

8:00 pm

Presented by The Jazz Network Foundation & The Arts League of Michigan
Featuring Kamau Kenyetta

with Vincent Bowens – Reeds

George Davidson – Drums

Dwight Adams – Trumpet
Donation $15 (refreshments available)
We’ll validate your Detroit Opera House parking ticket for your discount
For more details call:  313-965-8430 or 313-715-0170
Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center


311 E. [...]

SBH Trio Open Mic Jazz Jam On Thursdays at Berts

[ December 3, 2009 8:00 pm to December 17, 2009 8:00 pm. ] 8:30 pm ­ 12:30am,
Bert’s Marketplace

2727 Russell, Detroit Eastern Market
$3 cover, free parking, great food!

Drop in for Detroit’s longest running and hottest jazz jam!
Spider Webb, drums; Bill Meyer, piano; Ralphe Armstrong, bass
with some of Detroit’s greatest singers and musicians

Thurs. December 3rd
Martha Reeves hosting
Special going away¹ party as she leaves
the City Council to return to [...]

Palmer Woods Music in Homes Series

[ December 26, 2009 8:00 pm to June 27, 2010 8:00 pm. December 26, 2009 8:00 pm to June 27, 2010 8:00 pm. ] Mansions, Castles, Cool Homes Great Music

Thornetta DavisDetroit’s historic neighborhood Palmer Woods toots its horn, strums its strings, and draws sellout crowds to its jazz, classical and world music concerts held in its historic homes. The first concert of the Palmer Woods Music in Homes featuring Blues queen Thornetta Davis on Saturday, December 26 (day after [...]

Brothers Groove “Reelin’ It In” at The Park Bar

At the Park Bar in Detroit, MI
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 5:30pm- 2:00am

Join The Brothers Groove November 18th at 5:30p with DJ Aaron Halfacre, The Motor City Horns and special guests.
Bring your Phish Ticket or two cans of food for charity and save $2.00 off your entrance.
$10.00 all night.
SCHEDULE:
5:30p-6:30p DJ Aaron Halfacre spins
6:30p-7:30p Informal trio [...]

Mary Stallings & Eric Reed at The Jazz Cafe Detroit

November 20-21, 2009, 8:30 PM and 11 PM.

The Jazz Café at Music Hall presents one of the most versatile jazz vocalists of the last 40 years, the expressive and emotional singer, Mary Stallings for 4 sets and two nights at 8:30 PM and 11 PM.
Ms. Stallings will also be accompanied by composer/ pianist, Eric [...]

Metro Jazz Voices Free Concert Sunday Evening!

Sunday evening, Nov. 15 from 6-8pm.
THE METRO JAZZ VOICES will be performing a FREE concert in the “B’Jazz Vespers” series Located at THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BIRMINGHAM.
This series is in it’s 14th successful season of supporting great jazz, and great jazz listeners in the Detroit area.
This concert will take place THIS Sunday evening, Nov. [...]

Broadside Press 44th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, November 15, 2009, 3:00am – 6:00pm
Broadside Press celebrates its 44th Anniversary with two new releases:
Hilda Vest, signs her new book,
Homehouse: Memoir of a Southern Childhood
Albert M. Ward, launches his new poetry/jazz CD,
“About Love, Sometimes”
* Special Presentation in Honor of Judy Reid
Refreshments
Jazz Vocal Performance by Sumarah
Open Mic
University of Detroit Mercy McNichols Campus Library
Bargman Reading [...]

November 2009 JAZZ CAFÉ DATES

At Music Hall Center
The Jazz Café is the most significant contribution to music in southeastern Michigan in recent memory and “Jazzpolice.com” calls it the most important jazz club to open in America this year.
Mary Stallings with special guest
Eric Reed
October 31 Jazz Café Halloween Party 9pm
November 2 Ain’t Misbehavin’ Auditions 7pm
November 3 Discovery Series 7pm / [...]

How Can a “Music of the Spirit” Die?

Amiri Baraka – “Whether African Song, Work Song, Spiritual, Hollers, Blues, Jazz,
Gospel, etc., no matter the genre, the ideas contained in Afro-American art, in the
main, oppose slavery and desire freedom.”
Jazz is dead! Here we go again. The recent Wall Street Journal article by Terry Teachout, (the journal’s drama critic? Why is he writing about [...]

Detroit Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave Is 2009 Eminent Artist

Detroit’s premier jazz musician and educator receives $50,000 prize from The Kresge Foundation
Marcus Belgrave, Photo by John M. Galloway/Special to The Detroit News
Master jazz trumpet player Marcus Belgrave — who has enthralled audiences world-wide with his musical virtuosity and mentored scores of aspiring young musicians — has been named the 2009 Kresge Eminent Artist by [...]