Songs from the 31st!

What a cooker of a day today. Here's what I played to cool things down
Count Basie - Splanky
David Leonhardt - In The Still of the Night
Zoot Sims - Someone To Watch Over Me
Amanda Tosoff - Good Bye Grey Sky
Anita O'Day - It Don't Mean a Thing
Herbie Hancock - Survival of the Fittest
Dean Pallen - Strathcona Park
Terrence Blanchard - Sidney
Count Basie - Makin' Whoopie

What I Played on the 17th

Count Basie - Splanky
Chick Corea - Oblivion
Joey Defrancesco/Jimmy Smith - I've Got My Mojo Workin'
Cory Weeds - Juicy Lucy
Maynard Ferguson - My Sister
Christopher Plock - Blue Skies
Pierre Leduc - Soya
Carmen McRae - You're Looking at Me
Count Basie - Makin' Whoopee

Rayse Biggs plays the Dirty Dog

Tonight thru Saturday

Tuesday, May 10th

Count Basie - Splanky
Hank Jones and Oliver Jones - Groove Merchant
Dean Pallen - Strathcona Park
Irvin Mayfield - Mardi Gras Second Line
Linnzi Zaorski - Blue Skies
David Friesen - Serenade
Krisanne Crowell - Stuck on You
Dave LeFebvre - A Nordic Tale
Jeff "Tain" Watts - Goldaze
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Hallelujah I Love Her So

This is Going to be a Busy Weekend!

Lot's going on for the Mother's Day Weekend.
Baker's Keyboard Lounge
Friday - Al Mckenzie Trio
Saturday - Remembering Don Mayberry (pictured)
for Baker's 77th Anniversary!

Cliff Bell's
Friday - The Desean Jones Quartet
Saturday - Mike Jellick

Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe
Wednesday thru Saturday - Stanley Jordan

Worth Checking Out

Film Documentary "CHOPS" with music by Ricio Fruge
MSU Community Music Center (next door to the Bonstelle Theater)
3408 Woodward Avenue,
(313) 578-9716

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
"CHOPS" takes audiences inside the Essentially Ellington Festival, a national high school jazz
band competition hosted by Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Before the film, guests can tour the MSU Community Music Center, learn about jazz education opportunities and meet Ricio Fruge, one of the film's stars. There will be light refreshments and popcorn.

Here is What You Heard on the 3rd

Count Basie - Splanky
Roberto Occhipinti - Herbie's Mood
Brad Turner Quartet - Small Wonder
Jeff "Tain" Watts - Family
Laura Kahle - 20/20 Vision
Jane Bunnett - Mambo Shin Shin
Dinah Washington - I'll Close My Eyes
Jazz Pistols - Sex in a Pan
Barbara Morrison - Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Herbie Hancock - The Eye of the Hurricane
The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra - Captain Bill