LOWE-ESCHETE-HUGHES CONCERT ***SOLD OUT***
The Mundell Lowe, Ron Eschete, Luther Hughes concert is now SOLD OUT. But cancellations happen!
email Dale175@aol.com or Rebeccagh54@gmail.com to be placed on the waiting list.
WATCH FOR UPCOMING CalJAS EVENTS
Coming May 3rd, The CalJAS House Concert Series will present jazz vocalist and drummer Dave Tull with Luther Hughes and TBA piano, at the home of Dale and Sue Boatman. Details coming soon!
On May 14, CalJAS will once again present the award winning Singopation at Steamers Jazz Cafe. Watch for reservation information.
CalJAS GOES TO KRISTIN KORB CONCERT
In November 2014, CalJAS Secretary/Treasurer Sue Boatman, along with CalJAS Member Debbie Stevens attended a Kristin Korb concert during her U.S.A. Tour. Sue was excited to see Kristin again and loved the concert!
COME BACK SOON KRISTIN!!!!!
NOTED GUITARIST MUNDELL LOWE AT CalJAS HOUSE CONCERT
Biography of Mundell Lowe
| BORN IN LAUREL, Mississippi, Mundell left home at the age of thirteen. After working in Nashville, he found his way to Bourbon Street in New Orleans and the beginning of his jazz career. While serving in World War Il, he met the influential John Hammond, who introduced him to Ray McKinley. Mundell worked with McKinley’s band for a year and a half, developing his distinctive instrumental style, and then moved on to work in New York at Café Society and stints at the Village Vanguard and The Embers, among others. Mundell worked with Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Helen Humes and Charles Mingus, to name but a few. These gigs overlapped with an early morning TV show at NBC with Cy Coleman, “A Date in Manhattan,” and later “The Kate Smith Hour” with Stan Getz, Doc Severinsen, and Kai Winding.FROM THE EARLY FIFTIES to the mid-Sixties, he was an active performer, working with George Duvivier on bass and Ed Shaughnessy on drums in Dave Garroway’s “Today Show” studio band. He also played with the extraordinary pianist Hank Jones when they both worked in the NBC and CBS orchestras of the early Fifties. After seventeen years at NBC as a guitarist and arranger, Lowe was transferred to the News and Special Events Department to work as a composer.MUNDELL MOVED TO LOS ANGELES, California, Christmas 1965—actually, he left to visit some friends, and never went back to New York! He met Jackie Cooper, then-head of Screen Gems, and began the West Coast phase of his career composing music for some of their television and film properties. Lowe augmented his TV and film work with making his own LPs as well as two successful projects with noted singers Sarah Vaughan (‘After Hours”) and Carmen McRae (‘Bittersweet”).
EVEN THOUGH HE HAD made special appearances with Peggy Lee and the White House, toured Japan with Benny Carter several times, and was a regular performer at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Mundell found he was spending more time writing than playing, which he found frustrating. He made up his mind to turn that around and, during the 1980s, he stepped out of the studio world of film and television and returned to performing, the first love of his long and rich musical career. MARCH 8 SEE COMING EVENTS |
CalJAS GOES TO ORANGE COUNTY WITH MUNDELL LOWE, RON ESCHETE, AND LUTHER HUGHES
On March 8, The California Jazz Arts Society House Concert Series presents Mundell Lowe, Ron Eschete, and Luther Hughes in a very intimate concert setting. Selected vocals will be performed by Becky Hughes, and Dale Boatman. The concert will be presented at the home of LUTHER and BECKY HUGHES in Westmintser.
See COMING EVENTS for details.
WELCOME BACK-2015 HOUSE CONCERT SERIES TO BEGIN
Dale Boatman
January 5, 2015
SHERRY WILLIAMS TO PERFORM AT CaLJAS HOUSE CONCERT
FEBRUARY 1
The California Jazz Arts Society
House Concert Series
PRESENTS
Sherry Williams
with
Llew Matthews, piano
Luther Hughes, bass
7:00 til 9:30
at
Dale and Sue Boatman’s
SEE COMING EVENTS FOR DETAILS
Dr. BOBBY RODRIGUEZ TO JOIN LARRY FOX
OCTOBER 25
ALL THAT JAZZ
DR. BOBBY RODRIGUEZ WILL BE LARRY’S GUEST THIS WEEK….see COMING EVENTS..CalJAS Promotes
STEAMERS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Hi Everyone, I received this from CalJAS Artist Ron Kobayashi and thought you might be interested!
Hi Dale! Hope you are well. Wanted to invite you to Steamers next Wednesday Oct. 15 for the 20th Anniversary of Steamers. You’ve been such a big part of the Socal Jazz scene, and Steamers specifically, it would be an honor to have you come sit in if you are available. We’re also planning to take a group photo of all the musicians to document what I hope will be a sizable gathering of OC/Socal Jazz musicians all at the same location at the same time. Hope you can make it and help spread the word. Thanks so much!
Stephanie Haynes Concert Sold Out
A LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION HAS OPENED UP FOUR SEATS
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The October 19 House Concert featuring Stephanie Haynes, Rich Eames, and Luther Hughes is now at capacity. Cancellations invariably happen, so email Dale175@aol.com if you wish to be put on the standby list.