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Nellie McKay Celebration, Jen Maurer Birthday, Legendary Eric Andersen and more....

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We're totally excited about the return of Nellie McKay thisweekend. We think Nellie is one of the most creative and funsinger/songwriters on the world stage these days. She'sfamous for several of her songs including "The Dog Song"and her appearances on "The View", Conan O'Brien, "LateLate Show With Craig Ferguson", and more. DON'TMISS this super talented artist this Friday and Saturday atNighttown!!

Tonight (Monday), we have one of the all-time famoussinger-songwriters, Eric Andersen. He emerged out of the prolific 1960's Greenwich Villagescene including others like Bob Dylan, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and so many more. His songshave been covered by numerous artists including Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, and The GratefulDead. Catch him tonight in a rare appearance here at Nighttown!!

Then on Tuesday, one of the more popular internationaltouring sax players, Greg Abate, will be here at Nighttownalong with NE Ohio's Paul Ferguson. They'll be joined bymembers of the Case Western Reserve University JazzProgram. Paul is the Artistic Director of the Cleveland JazzOrchestra.

On Wednesday, one of the fast new emerging trumpet players coming out of NYC, BennyBennack, will be here at Nighttown. Like Dominick Farinacci, Benny has won the CarmineCarusso International Trumpet Competition, and was a runner up in the Thelonious MonkCompetition in 2014. He'll be bringing an all NYC quartet.

Friday and Saturday is Nellie McKay weekend here at Nighttown.

Then on Sunday, join us while we celebrate Jen Maurer'sbirthday when she brings her group Mo' Mojo to Nighttown. Alsways a fun time with Mo' Mojo, and we'll have even morefun celebrating Jen's birthday.

Also note that we've just added a number of newsignificant shows including Badfinger, Joe McBride in aRay Charles tribute, The Legendary Count BasieOrchestra, Alex Bugnon, Special EFX, Moya Brennan,Helen Welch, and James Taylor's sister Kate Taylor.

Hope you can join us for all these great shows here at Nighttown this week.

Jim WadsworthNighttown / Jim Wadsworth Production

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Eric Andersen$20.00

$20.00 Monday 10/09 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Legendary Singer/Songwriter and Trio hit the Stage at Nighttown!

"Eric Andersen is one of our finest singers and songwriters, in the most literal senseof that tradition… the most elegant of singers." David Fricke, (Rolling StoneMagazine)

“An American master.” Robert Palmer.

Eric Andersen first came to prominence as a performer in Greenwich Village in theearly 1960s and immediately became part of the Village folk and songwriter scenealong with Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, and Bob Dylan, and was at theepicenter of the American Greenwich Village singer-songwriter explosion.

Besides his own classics, he’s co-written songs with Bob Weir of the Dead, TownesVan Zandt, Rick Danko, and Lou Reed.

His songs have been covered by many artists including Mary Chapin Carpenter,Judy Collins, Fairport Convention, Rick Nelson, John Denver, Linda Ronstadt, TheGrateful Dead, Peter, Paul & Mary, The Blues Project, Gillian Welch and LindaThompson, and Rick Danko. Bob Dylan’s version of Eric’s song “Thirsty Boots” wasreleased as a single on Record Store Day and also appears on the Dylan CDAnother Self Portrait.

Over the past 50 years, Eric has toured the world and released over 30 CDs oforiginal music including Blue Rain (Appleseed Recordings) his first live concertrecording in Oslo with the band Spoonful of Blues and released in 2007. In the early 1990s Andersen recorded 2 trio-harmony albums with The Band’s RickDanko and Norwegian singer Jonas Fjeld. He’s featured in the Joni MitchellAmerican Masters documentary, the Wildflower Festival DVD with Judy Collins, TomRush, and Arlo Guthrie, the rock film Festival Express and the documentaryGreenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation. In 1990 Eric won the New York Music Award for his album Ghosts Upon the Road,in 1992 the Spellemanns Pris (Norwegian Grammy) for “Danko Fjeld Andersen” andin 2003 The Premio Tenco award with Patti Smith in San Remo, Italy. It is an awardgiven to outstanding songwriters. Previous awards have gone to Randy Newman,Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Lou Reed. The Eric Andersen and Friends Webcast was launched in June 2011 by NevessaProductions Woodstock with special guests Happy Traum, John Sebastian, Joe Floodand Inge Andersen.

Featured songs from that show were from his album The Cologne Concert (MeyerRecords) which was released on CD and Vinyl in April 2011. The live albumfeatures Eric’s wife Inge Andersen on back-up harmonies and he is accompaniedon violin by Michele Gazich.

Coming soon, in conjunction with Eric’s fall tours, this October 2107 will see therelease of two new albums:

Sony/Legacy Records will be issuing THE ESSENTIAL ERIC ANDERSEN – A 42-trackdigital release, 33 track double CD release and 20 track double LP retrospectiverelease covering fifty years of his recorded history from Today is the Highway toBlue River and Ghosts Upon the Road and Beat Avenue and on to his Live inCologne album and unreleased New York recordings.

The fall of 2017 will see the release of a new EP from Meyer Records called SilentAngel: The Exploded World of Heinrich Böll”

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Paul Ferguson / Greg Abate Quintet$10.00 Tuesday 10/10

Tuesday 10/10 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Sax Master Greg Abate & Trombone virtuoso and leader of the CJO PaulFerguson co-lead Quintet Live at Nighttown!

Featuring players from the CWRU Jazz Program and More!

Paul Ferguson is Artistic Director of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. He hasperformed and arranged music for the group since 1988. A graduate of theEastman school, Paul has toured extensively with the Glenn Miller and TommyDorsey Orchestras. A versatile musician, Paul has performed with Apollo's Fire, TheCleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Pops, numerous broadway shows, and hasbacked Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughn, Andy Williams, Mel Torme and many others.His arrangements for pops orchestra and jazz ensemble are performedinternationally.

Greg Abate jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer continues as an InternationalJazz/Recording Artist with 225 days a year touring the globe.

In the mid 70’s after finishing a four year program at Berklee College Of Music,Greg played lead alto for the Ray Charles Orchestra for 2 years. In 1978 Gregformed his group Channel One which was a favorite in the New England area andfrom there had the opportunity to play tenor sax with the revived Artie ShawOrchestra under leadership of Dick Johnson from 1986 to ’87.

Following this experience Greg ventured out as post hard bop soloist playing JazzFestivals, Jazz Societies and Jazz Clubs throughout the U.S. Canada and abroad,including most of Europe, UK, and Moscow and Georgia Russia.

Greg’s newest release Kindred Spirits Greg Abate Phil Woods with The Tim RayTrio.

Greg recorded his first CD Live At Birdland NYC in 1991 on the Candid Jazz Labelwith the trio of James Williams, Rufus Reid and Kenny Washington. To this dateGreg has recorded over 17 other recordings as leader.

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Benny Bennack Quartet$15.00 Wednesday 10/11 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

From NYC! Jazz Trumpet Master and Vocalist makes Clevelanddebut with his NYC live at Nighttown!

Featuring: Benny Bennack-trumpet & vocals, Takeshi Ohbayashi-piano, Alex Claffy-bass, & Joe Peri-drums.At the age of 26, Pittsburgh-born, New York-based Jazz musician Benny Benack IIIhas been hailed by Nate Chinen of the New York Times as “a charismatic youngtrumpeter who maintains an earnest sideline as a singer". As a dual-threat, he’squickly established himself as one of the most versatile and virtuosic voices of hisgeneration. He first made his mark internationally through competitions,highlighted by winning the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet SoloistCompetition (2011), and being a Finalist for the prestigious Thelonius MonkInternational Jazz Competition (2014). After placing in a number of US vocalcompetitions as well (Gentleman Sing, Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival), the stage was setfor his bright career.

Delivering on that early promise, he became a frequent collaborator with musicianssuch as Ulysses Owens Jr., Michael Dease, and Chihiro Yamanaka - recording with

such as Ulysses Owens Jr., Michael Dease, and Chihiro Yamanaka - recording withthe latter on the iconic Blue Note Records label.

Sought after as a trumpet soloist, he's played in nearly every major big band,including the Christian McBride Big Band, Mingus Big Band, Dizzy Gillespie AlumniAll-Stars, Jimmy Heath Big Band, and Bobby Sanabria's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra.

An international touring schedule includes frequent engagements in Japan, SouthKorea, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine and Italy. Equally at ease in the Pop/Cabaret world,he has toured alongside Josh Groban as his trumpet soloist, played the famed CafeCarlyle with fashion icon Isaac Mizrahi, headlined the iconic Birdland Jazz Clubalongside Anne Hampton Callaway honoring Ella & Louis, and was special guestwith the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops Orchestra for a Tribute to Sinatra.

When not on the road, he headlines at the finest venues in New York, withengagements at 54 Below, Jazz @ Lincoln Center’s “Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola", TheBlue Note, Birdland, SMOKE, Minton’s, the Jazz Standard, Small’s, and has a monthlySaturday night residency at Mezzrow in the West Village. He was recently featuredas a vocalist during Jazz @ Lincoln Center’s 2016 Concert Series in the Appel Room,as a part of “Crooners" celebrating Bing Crosby, Mel Torme & Nat King Cole. Healso made his television debut, featured live on-air in the House Band for NBC'svariety show "Maya & Marty in Manhattan".

On September 15th, 2017 his first solo album “One of a Kind" will be releasedworldwide, signaling his arrival as a major international artist for years to come.

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Nellie McKay$30.00 Friday 10/13 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

Saturday 10/14 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

Back by Popular Demand! Singer Songwriter, Pianist, & Comedienne Live on theNighttown Stage for Two Big Nights!

Featuring: Marty Block-acoustic bass, & Roy King-drums.

The New Yorker has warily described McKay as “funny and touching, ceaselesslyclever and scarily talented.”

McKay co-created and starred in the award-winning off-Broadway hit Old Hats andhas written three acclaimed musical biographies - I Want to Live!, the story ofBarbara Graham, the third woman executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin,Silent Spring: It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature, an exploration of environmentalpioneer Rachel Carson, and A GIRL NAMED BILL - The Life and Times of Billy Tipton,named one of the Best Concerts of 2014 by The New York Times. A recipient of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Humanitarian Award inrecognition of her dedication to animal rights, Nellie is an annoyingly vocaladvocate for feminism, civil rights and other deeply felt progressive ideals. She iscurrently part of the campaign to get horse-drawn carriages off the streets of NewYork City. Nellie has released six full-length albums, including Normal As Blueberry Pie: ATribute to Doris Day ("among the killer overhauls of American standards” - The NewYork Times) and her latest, My Weekly Reader, music of the ‘60s produced byBeatles engineer Geoff Emerick (“[Nellie] manifests more historical grasp than anypsych band yet to show its hand. – Robert Christgau). She has won a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Polly Peachum in the

She has won a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Polly Peachum in theBroadway production of The Threepenny Opera and performed onscreen in thefilms PS I Love You and Downtown Express, as well as writing original music for theRob Reiner film Rumor Has It and contributing to the Emmy-winning documentary,Gasland. Nellie contributed the forward to the 20th anniversary edition of The Sexual Politicsof Meat, by Carol J. Adams. Her writing has also appeared in The Onion, Interviewand The New York Times Book Review.

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Mo Mojo $10.00 Sunday 10/15 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Zydeco, Blues, Jazz, Folk, and much more from Jen Maurer andcompany. Celebrating Jen's birthday!!!The female fronted group featuring Jen Mauer, includes three-part harmonies,accordion, fiddle, guitar, rub-board, sax, trumpet, harp, bass, percussion, anddrums.

Mo' Mojo takes Zydeco music and infuses it with Americana, Cajun, reggae, rock &roll, funk, R&B, and African and Latin rhythms.

Mo Mojo loves the club experience with dancers, smiles, drinks, and good vibes allaround. A local club is what we grew from and we’ll always be appreciative of avenue that let’s us get close and personal with our audience!

Mo’ Mojo recently toured with the State Department on the American Music AbroadProgram to play the following countries: Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2014);Belize, Panama, Mexico, Barbados, and Colombia (2015).

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Gabrielle Stravelli Quartet$20.00 Thursday 10/19 8:00 pm Buy Tickets

Jazz Vocalist Extraordinaire makes Cleveland debut with her NYC group Live at

Jazz Vocalist Extraordinaire makes Cleveland debut with her NYC group Live atNighttown!

As featured with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Playing music from her new CD "Dream Ago"

Award-winning vocalist Gabrielle Stravelli has garnered critical acclaim and a loyalfollowing through her original songs and her unique take on material from the NewAmerican songbook as well as classic standards by artists as varied as Pink Floydand Duke Ellington, Dolly Parton and Johnny Mercer. A trained actor, Gabrielle has asoulful sensitivity for the story in the lyric and was called “a powerhouse ofindividual expression” by David Finkle of The Village Voice.

In January 2017, Gabrielle released her third album, "Dream Ago" comprisedprimarily of original material co-written with bassist Pat O'Leary. The albumreceived a five-star review from DownBeat Magazine and garnered raves from theHuffington Post, Scott Yanow of LA Jazz Scene and Tony Frankel of LA's Stage andCinema among others. In March Gabrielle and her trio toured the album for tendays traveling from Philadelphia across the Midwest.

She immediately followed the tour with a week in Los Angeles as a master teacherfor YoungArts, a national organization that organizes week-long intensives forartists 14-18 years old and connects them with professionals currently working intheir chosen field. In April Gabrielle was invited by the US Embassy in Azerbaijan toperform at a gala celebrating 25 years of diplomatic relations between the US andAzerbaijan. Gabrielle's group collaborated with Sevda Alekperzade, Azerbaijan'smost prominent jazz vocalist on an arrangement symbolizing the collaborationbetween the two countries, which was performed at the gala for 400 dignitaries andheads of state.

Stravelli's group headlined the 2016 Eleuthera All That Jazz Festival in Eleuthera,Bahamas and headlined an international tour sponsored by the US StateDepartment's American Music Abroad program for 2015/2016. Out of hundreds ofapplicants, the Gabrielle Stravelli Ensemble was one of just 10 bands sent aroundthe world to foster cultural diplomacy through music. The tour took her to Moldova,Azerbaijan, Slovenia and Malta, where her quartet taught workshops andmasterclasses during the day and performed concerts at night. In the fall of 2015she premiered a new song cycle, Rooms of Light, written by world-renowned jazzpianist, Fred Hersch with lyrics by award-winning poet Mary Jo Salter. That projectwas proceeded by a run of solo shows at Feinstein's/54 Below which won her asecond rave review from the New York Times.

"Ms. Stravelli’s emotional intelligence coincides with a phenomenal voice that shewielded with an easygoing confidence and impeccable taste."

- Stephen Holden, New York Times

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Diego Figueiredo & Chuchito Valdes$30.00 Friday 10/20 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

Saturday 10/21 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

Brazil meets Cuba when these two masters of guitar and piano take the StageLive at Nighttown!!

Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo is a virtuoso with an infectious, joyful feelingthat will leave you amazed and happy. Don't miss this opportunity to discover thisincredible artist.

Diego Figueiredo is an extraordinary fast rising star among the world's greatest jazzguitarists. His superb technique, timing and imagination have made him one of thehottest international names right now. He has a very unique skills and his concerthave been a great success in more than 50 countries around the world.

have been a great success in more than 50 countries around the world.

He has already released 23 CDS, 3 DVDs and a book and he has received awardstwice at the “MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL” as one of the greatest guitarists in theworld. Diego Figueiredo performs one amazing concert uniting technique andemotion in a fusion of Brazilian music and jazz.

?Diego Figueiredo is a brilliant musician who keeps the tradition of the true essenceof Brazilian music and at the same time can be extremely virtuous , modern andinnovative.

Chuchito Valdés, following in the footsteps of his famed father Chucho Valdés andgrandfather Bebo Valdés, continues the legacy of great piano players form Cuba.

With influences of Caribbean rhythms and jazz, Chuchito creates an exciting andenergetic blend of spicy music that drives audiences wild. This piano mastercaptivates with his sensitivity and drives excitement with his dynamic band.

Chuchito has recorded and performed piano with the world renown Cuban band,Irakere, which he led for two years. He has also performed at festivals, clubs andconcerts throughout the world: from Cuba and the Caribbean to North America,South America, and Europe.

Chuchito is recognized as a master of Cuban music including Son, Danzon, CubanTimba and Guaguanco. He has also extensively studied classical music includingharmony and composition. His original compositions and arrangements draw onclassical harmonic and structural techniques. In his performances, Chuchito’s musicdraws on many styles including Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz, Bebop, Danzon, Cha-Cha-Cha, Son Montuno and much more. Chuchito Valdés currently resides in Cancun,Mexico and is a frequent performer in the United State and Canada.

“Chuchito Valdés displays the hell-bent intensity and daredevil technique of theelder Valdés-qualities recognized worldwide as hallmarks of Cuban Jazz.” - NeilTesser / The Reader (Chicago’s Art & Culture Guide) and author of The PlayboyGuide to Jazz

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Diego Figueiredo Trio Live in Concert in São Paulo Brazil Diego Figueiredo Duo (hold onto your seat) Diego solo performing "Stella by Starlight" Diego Figueiredo wins the Festa Nacional da Música Award in Brazil

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Jackie Warren / Joshua Smith Duo $10.00 Sunday 10/22 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Dynamic Duo featuring Jackie Warren-piano, & Joshua Smith-sax (based in SFCA) live at Nighttown!

A native of Colorado, pianist Jackie Warren originally came to Ohio to studyclassical piano at Oberlin Conservatory with Sedmara Zakarian Rutstein, where shegraduated with a B.M. in performance. While at Oberlin, she also studied jazzarranging, composition, and theory with Wendell Logan, who became a mentor toher, and encouraged her to study jazz piano with Neal Creque and jazzimprovisation with Kenny Davis. Jackie received a M.M. from Cleveland StateUniversity in classical piano performance, studying with Andrius Kuprevicius andDaniel Barber, but continued her lessons with Creque, and has been based inCleveland ever since.

Jackie performs regularly as a soloist, but has her own jazz trio, which includesbassist Peter Dominguez and drummer Ron Godale. She also arranges and plays

bassist Peter Dominguez and drummer Ron Godale. She also arranges and playssalsa and Latin jazz with percussionist Sammy Deleon y Su Orquesta. In addition tothese groups, Jackie has performed locally and nationally with such artists andgroups as David Fathead Newman, Benny Bailey, Clark Terry, Frank Morgan, BobbyWatson, Frank Foster, Jane Bunnett and the Spirits of Havana, Los Munequitos deMatanzas, Othello Molineaux, Donald Harrison, Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Heath,Impacto Nuevo, Humberto Ramirez, Cano Estremera, Tommy Olivencia, Tony Vega,Tito Rojas, Tito Puente, Jr., Hector Tricoche, Percy Sledge, King Solomon, theTuscarawas Philharmonic, the Jazz Heritage Orchestra, the Cleveland JazzOrchestra, and the Afro Cleveland Orchestra.

Jackie is also an educator and clinician, and has taught jazz arranging andcomposition and coached jazz combos at Oberlin. She is currently on the JazzStudies Faculty at Cuyahoga Community College, Metro Campus. She is also on thefaculty at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.

Joshua Smith is a saxophonist/multi instrumentalist residing in the San FranciscoBay area. He has been performing for the past 20 years with a wide array ofnotable jazz and creative musicians, beginning in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.

Joshua has performed in the straight-ahead jazz realm for the past 20 years. Hiscurrent sidemen are the best of the San Francisco Bay area. Growing up, Smithbegan gigging at a very early age with older jazzmen of his hometown, Cleveland,Ohio... He was a member of "Greg Bandy's Young Lions'" and studied undersaxophone iconoclast Ernie Krivda.

Joshua has since made his mark in the arena of avant-garde jazz and forwardthinking jazz through performing with players like Joe Maneri, Cuong Vu, (of The PatMetheny Group), Chris Jonas, trumpet legend Nate Wooley, Trevor Dunn, ToddSickafoose, Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg,Carmen Castaldi, and drummer ScottAmendola in addition to many other notable players...

Additionally, he's performed with funk drumming legend Clyde Stubblefield, touredas a member of The Youngblood Brass Band, and bluegrass legend Peter Rowan...

He's been a member of The Scott Amendola Quartet for the last five years, havingperformed with guitar luminary Nels Cline, at John Zorn's NYC venue, The Stone.

In 2010 he acted as music director and contributing composer to the "Leave MeAlone" opera, an avant grade jazz opera written by Smith's good friend HarveyPekar, at Oberlin College.

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"Out There: BW Alumni Return to Cleveland" $15.00 Monday 10/23 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater Alumni take the stage atNighttown!

“Out There: BW Alumni Return to Cleveland”….

Proceeds for this first-ever BW alumni event go towards the KyleJean-Baptiste Foundation, in honor of Broadway performer andBW alumnus who passed away a couple of years ago.Join us for an evening of music theatre as Baldwin Wallace University alumniperform selections live at Nighttown!

From lead roles on Broadway and London's West End to prime time television, filmand more, students from Baldwin Wallace’s Music Theatre (BWMT) program havegarnered top acclaim for more than 20 years.

Recently ranked as number two of the top ten Music Theatre programs in the

Recently ranked as number two of the top ten Music Theatre programs in thecountry by College Magazine, Program Director Victoria Bussert continues to leadstudents to successful careers.

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Mark Russo Quintet - Tribute to Horace Silver $10.00 Wednesday 10/25 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

North Coast Trumpeter leads Quintet playing the music of Jazz Legend HoraceSilver live at Nighttown!

Featuring: Mark Russo-trumpet, Tim McDonald-sax, Anthony Fuoco-piano, AidanPlank-bass, & Ricky Exton-drums.

Mark A. Russo is a freelance jazz trumpet player and music educator in the greaterCleveland area. He is currently the director of bands at Constellation Schools:Puritas Community Middle Schools and the former Director of the Garfield HeightsHigh School “Music Express” Show Choir Combo.

Mr. Russo is currently promoting his latest project released on Bugles Media; hisdebut album entitled NEW AFFIRMATION, which features all original compositionsand displays some of the extremely talented musicians on the Cleveland Jazzscene. Mr. Russo is one of the founding members of the Cleveland Jazz Revolution(CJR), an organization of improvising musicians whose goal is to create a strongersense of community in Cleveland's Jazz Scene as well as a founding member of theJAZZ INITIATIVE which is an ensemble/group dedicated to the advocacy of jazzeducation in the Greater Cleveland area. In addition, he has been an adjudicatorand Guest Artist for the Stow-Munroe Falls middle School Jazz Festival and theGreen Local Jazz Festival.

As a performer, Mr. Russo has worked for Carnival Cruise Lines and has performedextensively with such local groups as Bobby Selvaggio's Hedectet Jazz Collective(HJC), The AVENUE from Jerry Bruno Productions, The Jerry Bruno Orchestra,Afterdark, The Tony Camarado Band, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, The DanJo bigband, MOJO Generations Big Band, Transportation Boulevard, The Hermit Club JazzOrchestra, The Swing City Big Band, Sophisticated Swing, Night Bridge and the DanZola Orchestra. He has shared the stage with such artists as Ken Peplowski, CurtisFuller, Benny Golson, Carl Allen, Ingrid Jensen, John Bailey, Marvin Stamm, AllenVizzutti, Randy Johnston, Wayne Bergeron, and Mike Lee. Mr. Russo has receivedrecognition for his achievements in jazz winning Kent State University’s WalterWatson Jazz Achievement Award (2001, 2002) and the BGSU Jazz AchievementAward (1998).

He has also studied trumpet and arranging with Todd Davidson, Brad Goode, JefferyHalsey, Russell Schmidt, Chris Buzzelli, Jack Shantz, Michael Chunn, DennisReynolds, Chas Baker, and Paul Ferguson.

Horace Silver

From the perspective of the 21st century, it is clear that few jazz musicians had agreater impact on the contemporary mainstream than Horace Silver.

Silver worked with Stan Getz for a year, then began to freelance around NYC withsuch big-time players as Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Oscar Pettiford and LouDonaldson. In 1953, he joined forces with Art Blakey to form a cooperative undertheir joint leadership. The band's first album, Horace Silver and the JazzMessengers, was a milestone in the development of the genre that came to beknown as hard bop. Many of the tunes penned by Silver for that record -- "ThePreacher," "Doodlin'," "Room 608" -- became jazz classics. By 1956, Silver had leftthe Messengers to record on his own. The series of Blue Note albums that followedestablished him for all time as one of jazz's major composer/pianists.

established him for all time as one of jazz's major composer/pianists.

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Chieli Minucci & Special EFX$30.00 Thursday 10/26 7:00 pm Buy Tickets9:00 pm Buy Tickets

Guitarist extraordinaire and Legendary Contemporary Jazz Group hit the stageat Nighttown! Playing music from their new CD "Deep as the Night".

Featuring: Chieli Minucci-guitar, Lao Tizer-keyboards, Jerry Brooks-bass, & JoelRosenblatt-drums.

Guitarist, composer, and arranger Chieli Minucci is longtime leader of the Grammy-nominated jazz-fusion group SPECIAL EFX, featuring Chieli Minucci, a major forceon the jazz and world music scene for 35 years. Besides writing and performing hisown music, Chieli shares his guitar brilliance throughout the entertainment world.He has recorded and performed with many top artists, such as Celine Dion, LionelRichie, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel, Mark Anthony, Michael Bolton, Anastasia, as well asjazz artists Kirk Whalum, Jeff Lorber, Norman Brown, Bernie Williams, MarionMeadows, Lao Tizer, Mindi Abair, Rick Braun, Gerald Veasley, Omar Hakim, andmany others. Although renowned in the jazz and pop world, Chieli is also a giftedtelevision and film composer. He has won 3 Emmy Awards and been nominated 10times for his eclectic compositional work. His music can also be heard on thesoundtracks of the films Bowfinger, Legally Blonde, Panic, and others. Chieli’soriginal scoring work can be heard in live stage productions of Peter Pan, Dora theExplorer, Thomas the Tank Engine, and others.

Chieli Minucci & Special EFX released their 35th anniversary CD in spring of 2017,entitled, “Deep as the Night”.

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Ralph Moore with the Josh Nelson Tro$20.00 Friday 10/27 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

From Los Angeles, Ca.. Ralph Moore, Dynamic Saxophonist from the TonightShow Band with Kevin Eubanks, and also from the bands of Horace Silver,Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton, and JJ Johnson takes the stage at Nighttownwith the exciting young LA pianist Josh Nelson & Trio.

Featuring: Ralph Moore-sax, Josh Nelson-piano, Alex Boneham-bass, & DanSchnelle-drums.

Ralph Moore’s last recording as a leader was entitled “Who It Is You Are”—wordstaken from a poem written by NJ poet laureate, Amiri Baraka. Twenty years later,Baraka has recently passed and some folks are asking the tenor saxophonist:“Where it is you’ve been?”

While Moore has not been on the jazz scene per se (he has been living in LosAngeles for the last 20 years), he, nonetheless, has never separated from the purityof the passion that drives him every day. Fifteen years playing tenor in the band forThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno kept Moore on the left coast. During that time,Moore collaborated in a few cooperative jazz quartets — one in particular—aptlynamed “Escape from New York,” featuring some of his Tonight Show co-horts,including drummer Marvin “Smitty” Smith and bassist Bob Hurst.

With The Tonight Show with Jay Leno well behind him now, Moore is poised to getback to what is intrinsically and innately who he is – a jazz musician playing andcreating the music he loves.

Moore spent his college years at Berklee College of Music before making thesojourn to New York in 1981. In the 80s and early 90s, Moore was an in-demandsideman with with Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Ray Brown, RoyHaynes, J.J. Johnson, Cedar Walton, Bobby Hutcherson, McCoy Tyner, Roy Hargrove,Oscar Peterson, and Kenny Baron to name just a few. Moore has a number of finealbums out on Landmark (now 32 Jazz) Criss Cross, Concord, Reservoir and Savoylabels.

Josh NelsonBorn and raised in Southern California, Jsoh maintains an active and creativeschedule as a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and recording artist.

At 38 years old, he has already performed with some of the most respected namesin jazz, including Natalie Cole, Anthony Wilson, George Mraz, Jeff Hamilton, RichardGalliano, Benny Golson, Sheila Jordan, Greg Hutchinson, John Clayton, SeamusBlake, Matt Wilson, Sara Gazarek, Dave Koz, Joe Chambers, Kurt Elling, JohnPizzarelli, Lewis Nash, and Peter Erskine, to name a few.

In 2006, Josh was one of only twelve semi-finalists in the prestigious TheloniousMonk International Jazz Piano Competition.

Josh has recorded for countless albums, films, and TV shows, but also makes timefor his own projects: Anticipation (2004), Let it Go (2007), I Hear a Rhapsody (2009),Discoveries (2011), and his new album Exploring Mars (2015).

Josh has collaborated with vocal talent Sara Gazarek for 10 years. Their new duoalbum “Dream in the Blue” was released in August 2016, also charting well onBillboard, iTunes, and Amazon.

Josh toured with legendary vocalist Natalie Cole for 6 years. He continues to tourwith artists Sara Gazarek, Richard Galliano, Tom Scott, Miguel Atwood-Fergusonand Christian Howes.

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The Numbers Band (15-60-75)$10.00 Saturday 10/28 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

From Kent, Ohio! Celebrating their 47th Year! Northeast Ohio Jazz, Blues, &Rock Legends hit the Stage at Nighttown!

Featuring: Bob Kidney-guitar & vocals, Jack Kidney-harmonica, sax, keys, &vocals, Terry Hynde-sax, Bill Watson-bass, & Clint Alguire-drums.

15 60 75 The Numbers Band has been praised by almost every national musicpublication and several international publications since the beginning of their 30years of live performances and recordings. Many fans are under the impressionthat the band remains obscure by choice. In fact, they have never been offered acontract from any recording company in the industry, ever.

The music "cannot be categorized", "it is undefinable", "too original". The musicindustry is not about music anymore. It is about selling products the public canrelate to. After all, it is a business. Even "alternative" music has become a label. Thefounder of the band, Robert Kidney, explains, "The music industry, the media, andthe tellsusourvision (TV) are defining for the American public what is good music byonly playing and supporting what is profitable. We are taught to disregardeverything that is not familiar. We (The Numbers Band) give the people our best.Our effort goes into being creative, unique and original. We define our own sound.There are no rules because we don't play the game. We are not in it for the game,we're in it for the music."

So, the band continues to create and evolve outside of the "Rock & Roll"establishment. The majority of the recordings were financed by friends who lovedthe music enough to put up their own money. Hundreds of photographs taken ofthe band in different stages of it's existence by different amazing people tell a storyof intense performances, long nights, and the passing of time. Band members havecome and gone, and returned again. Robert sees music as much more than anemotional release or a performance. It is a job, a job for which he demands respectand payment for services.

The title of the band has always aroused curiosity from fans. The fans called themThe Numbers because it was easier than trying to get the figures right. Numbershad not been used in a name before, and the political climate in 1970 was quiteOrwell-ian. Robert choose a sequence of numbers mentioned in a book written byPaul Oliver called The Blues Fell This Morning. In the chapter "The Jinx Is On Me",Oliver describes the Numbers Racket popular in Harlem in the 1950s and howdreams were analyzed as number sequences and used for placing bets. The band'smusic theory specialist, Terry Hynde, also discovered that 15 divided 15 is 1, 60divided by 15 is 4, and 75 divided by 15 is 5. In a musician's world, "1, 4, 5," isreferred to as the "universal progression".

The band resides in northeast Ohio. They have several recordings under their beltand more music than they can afford to release.

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Chanelle McCloud & Chemistry$20.00 Sunday 10/29 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

"Profess" Chanelle McCloud & 4 Pc. group Chemistry seamlessly intertwinesspoken word, story telling, and music Live at Nighttown!

Get ready for a musical and motivational experience unlike you have everwitnessed! “Profess” Chanelle R. McCloud seamlessly intertwines spoken word,story telling and music in an entertaining and inspiring artistry called theMotivational Experience TM. This unique delivery of song and words will keep theaudience captivated and enthralled with its excitement, humor, depth, and amotivating message. Backed by the soulful and rhythmic sounds of Chemistry (theband), who has over 30 plus years of musical experience collectively, thisMotivational Experience TM promises to be entertaining, empowering and uplifting. Published poet, journalist, and award-winning educator “Profess” Chanelle R.McCloud has over a decade of experience motivating and inspiring youth andadults. She has woven her years of experience as a soloist and vocalist in concertand gospel choirs such as The Jubilee Singers and Voices of Testimony with hertheatrical involvement at Kent State University to create an enchanting and soulfulexperience that is truly a treasurable treat. She has been a featured performer atLarchmere Arts, Shore Cultural Center, and for many organizations including theAmerican Cancer Society. Chemistry (the band) like the scientific elements is a collaboration of different yetsimilar backgrounds, lifestyles, and characteristics that mold together to produceand form a musical experience like no other. Established officially in 2016,Chemistry consists of musically seasoned members Joseph Eff, Carlos "Pab"Franklin, and Paul Maximus Brown. These musicians are specialists in the genres ofgospel, R&B, pop, hip hop, jazz, rock, and more. All of these men have played withseveral world-renowned artists such as Anthony Hamilton, Eric Robison, TeedraMoses, Geoffrey Golden, and the list goes on. Together “Profess” Chanelle R. McCloud with Chemistry as the musical anchor willuplift, inspire, soothe, and move the souls of each audience member!

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Olli Soikkeli All Star International Trio w/openingartist Hot Djang!$20.00 Monday 10/30 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Master Gypsy Jazz Guitarist leads Global All Star Group at Nighttown.

Featuring: Olli Soikkeli-guitar (Finland), Albert Pibiri-piano (Italy), & Elias Bailey-acoustic bass (USA).

Also Featuring Special Guest Opening Act Hot Djang!

The Wall Street Journal wrote: “Olli Soikkeli, a riveting finnish guitaristwho combines astonishing dexterity and speed with pure soul in a waythat places him among the worthiest current day successors to the legacyof the great Django.”

of the great Django.”

Olli Soikkeli was born in Nurmes, Finland in 1991. Now based in New York City. Hestarted playing guitar at age of 12. After a few years of playing Olli was introducedto the music of great Django Reinhardt and Gypsy Jazz has been Ollis main focusever since. Soon Olli was playing in jazz clubs and festivals all around Finland. Aftertouring all around Europe with musicians such as Paulus Schäfer and Arnoud VanDen Berg Olli decided to move to New York City in 2014. Olli has played legendaryvenues such as Birdland Jazz Club, Blue Note and the Lincoln Center.

Despite his young age he’s already played with stars such as Bucky Pizzarelli,Stochelo Rosenberg, Tommy Emmanuel, Andreas Öberg, Cyrille Aimee, AnatCohen, Antti Sarpila and Marian Petrescu.

Hot Djang! is an acoustic jazz quintetfeaturing violin, clarinet, acousticguitars and upright bass.

Reed Simon (violin) has worked withmany of Cleveland's top jazzmusicians and national artistsincluding guitarist Tony Mattolla,vibraphonist Gary Burton and as aspecial guest on a Duke Ellingtonprogram at Severance Hall.

Eric Seddon (clarinet) has performed with Grammy winners Doc Severinsen, TheMoody Blues, the Emerson String Quartet, Steve Allen, and Mark O’Connor. Hissolos engage the history of jazz clarinet from New Orleans roots to subtle swing tomodern complexity.

Kevin Richards (guitar) is highly regarded in the local roots music scene and hasshared stages with MacMartin, John Hammond, Jorma Kaukonen, Howard Armstrong, and local blueslegend Robert Lockwood Jr

Brad Smedley (guitar) is the heartbeat of the band. He has studied under several ofthe best jazz guitaristsof this genre including Frank Vignola, Gonzolo Begara, and Robin Nolan.

Bryan Thomas (contrabass) has numerous performance credits including TerryGibbs, Junior Mance, Vic Damone, Russell Malone and locally with The ClevelandJazz Orchestra, and Ernie Krivda.

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Seth L. Johnson Trio$15.00 Thursday 11/02 8:00 pm Buy Tickets

Guitarist and vocaliste extraordinaire & Cleveland Hts. Native now living in NYCback for hometown gig with NYC based Trio Live at Nighttown!

Featuring: Seth Johnson-guitar & vocals, Jordan Scannella-bass, ShirazetteTinnin-drums & percussion.

Seth L Johnson is an established guitarist, a passionate composer and dedicatededucator. Having earned his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance from SanFrancisco State University, and his Master’s degree from Mason Gross School of theArts (under the tutelage of Vic Juris), Johnson grasps and interprets a well-rounded,expansive scope of musical genres. He plays Jazz, Western Classical, Afro-Cuban,Afro-Peruvian, Brazilian, African, Country, Funk, Bosa Nova, and Hip Hop.

Johnson was born in Buffalo, NY and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. There, he beganplaying and experimenting with guitars, at age 10. Largely self-taught, hedeveloped individualistic approaches to music and his instrument-- prior toreceiving formal training. Inspired by his first teacher, Cleveland blues guitarist JohnChristopherson, Johnson delved deeply into the blues and finger-style guitar. Thus,while thoroughly exploring the outskirts of the guitar’s sound and timbre, andembracing his musical versatility, the blues has ultimately remained at the core ofhis style.

After a somewhat transient lifesyle- Cleveland to San Francisco, Chicago, and Paris,France- you’ll presently find Seth L. Johnson living and teaching in New York, NY,and touring around the world. Life in Cleveland, New York, and travels have been(and continue to be) major influences throughout his career.

Over the last decade, Johnson has had the opportunity to share the stage or recordwith diverse and noteworthy artists such as Pharoah Monch, Jean Grae, Camp Lo,Andy Allo, Mob Deep, Hassan Hakmoun, Kaissa Doumbe, Lee Hogans, Enoch SmithJr, Jerome Jennings, and countless others. Past festivals performances include TheNorth Sea Jazz Fest (Rotterdam), Big Wig Hip Hop Festival (Singapore), SXSW, Tri-CJazz Fest (Cleveland), Montreal Jazz Festival (Montreal), Riverside Jazz Festival(Jersey City), Pittsburgh Jazz Fest, Djangology Festival (Brooklyn), Gnawa MusicFestival (Morocco).

Noteworthy recordings of late include SoNuvo- Now That You're Gone; Lee Hogans-What We Play Is Life; Shenandoah and The Night- 100 Wants; Chickentown-Doggies Don't Ride The Train; Shirazette Tinnin- Humility and many more to comelater in 2017.

Johnson is also a member of the Brooklyn based supergroup People's Champs,whose members have performed internationally with Sharon Jones and The DapKings, Boy George, Beyonce and many others. As a leader Seth can be seenperforming in such notable New York venues as The Blue Note Jazz Club, The ApolloTheatre, The Lambs Club, The Bitter End, The Rum House, Fat Cat, Smoke, BrooklynBowl, The Jazz Standard, Mercury Lounge, Zinc Bar, S.O.B.'s, Joe’s Pub, RockwoodMusic Hall among others.

Johnson's musical inspirations and enjoyments include, but are certainly not limitedto: Jimmy Hendrix, Lenny Breau, Marc Ribot, Robert Johnson, John Coltrane, BillieHoliday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Nina Simone, Erik Satie, James Blake, D'Angelo,Bjork, and Fiona Apple.

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Alex Bugnon$30.00 Friday 11/03 8:00 pm Buy Tickets10:00 pm Buy Tickets

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Pianist and Contemporary Jazz Superstar & his group return for Big Weekend atNighttown!

Montreux-reared Bugnon studied at a music conservatory in Paris before coming toAmerica to continue at Boston’s famed Berklee School of Music. He spent a lot oftime playing not only jazz but gospel, gigging on that time-honored southern circuit.Upon graduation he moved to New York. After spending a year driving taxicabs and

Upon graduation he moved to New York. After spending a year driving taxicabs andteaching French at the Berlitz School, he found initial work backing R&B stars suchas Patti Austin & James Ingram and Keith Sweat. It was through backing FreddieJackson that he made the contact at then-new Orpheus Records where he recordedhis first two CDs Love Season (1989) and Head Over Heels (1991), making hisdeepest first impressions with R&B audiences as a soulful instrumentalist du jour. Aswitch to Sony’s Epic Records family yielded 107 Degrees in the Shade (1991) andThis Time Around (1993), upon which time he jumped to RCA Records for Talesfrom the Bright Side (1995). From there he segued into the four albums he did forNarada Records, an associated label that specialized in smooth jazz and new age.

Beyond his recordings, Alex has built a loyal fan base through constant touring onthe club and jazz festival circuits. Just last year he passed the great Dizzy Gillespie’srecord of playing Washington, D.C.’s Blues Alley for 12 consecutive Thanksgivingswith his own lucky 13th visit. That most recent gig found his new music from GoingHome receiving quite the warm welcome. “People in their 40s, 50s and 60s thathave all of my CDs were raving about the new songs,” he beams. “At the sametime, college students that are more likely to be Radiohead fans were coming up tome saying, ‘I really dug that ‘Silver Finger’ song, man’ - which was really nice tohear!”

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Helen Welch$20.00 Sunday 11/05 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Jazz Vocalist extraordinaire From London, England and resident of NE Ohio, andgroup live on the Nighttown Stage!

International vocalist, entertainer, producer and musician has wowed audiencesfrom London’s West End to the Virginia Theatre on Broadway. Helen has sung withworld class organizations such as the BBC Big Band, the Cleveland Orchestra, theFlorida Symphony and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra to name a few.

Take the swing of Ella, the warm alto tones of Karen Carpenter, add some soul andoodles of cheeky British humor and pow! you have entertainer, singer and song-stylist Helen Welch.

Helen and her fabulous trio present “A Brit of Everything!” at Nighttown.Featuring songs and stories from throughout Helen’s varied career including songsfrom the various shows she’s produced coupled with music from the 4 albums she’smade since being in the U.S.A. including her hugely popular 2017 album“Spellbound”

The show will feature her version of “Both Sides Now”, the glorious Michel Le Grandsong “Windmills of Your Mind” (arranged by Dave Morgan), dramatic blues with “IPut a Spell on You”, a flamenco inspired “Spain”, Broadway songs ‘a little brit

Put a Spell on You”, a flamenco inspired “Spain”, Broadway songs ‘a little britdifferently’ including “On the Street Where You Live” and “This Nearly Was Mine”and a gorgeous version of “Wichita Lineman”

Joining her will be pianist Joe Leaman, bassist Bryan Thomas anddrummer Anthony Taddeo on drums. Not to be missed!!

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Moya Brennan$30.00 Monday 11/06 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Direct from Ireland! First Lady of Celtic and her group back on Stage Live atNighttown!

Lead vocalist from the Grammy Winning Irish Super Group Clannad!

When you walk the windswept hills and endless beaches of Donegal it all makessense.

Timeless, elemental and carried heavenwards in soulful breath, Moya’s voicereaches out to the farthest places but still touches the soul. She sings with anangel’s voice, arousing a passion in every listener. Her music refreshes and heals,exciting the senses, bringing a sense of calm to tired hearts.

Always fresh, forever just a dream away Moya captures the essence of herhomeland in all its cascading beauty, mystery and contradictions. Yet she singsfrom the heart to a world where hope, faith and joy are not just a dream.”

Yes, it all makes sense and there are elements of these qualities in many of theworld’s great singers. Yet it is astounding that her voice goes from strength tostrength. She stands as an Irish icon with the world as her stage.

In her music making, Moya has never been content to nestle within comfortableboundaries. From an early age she trod the boards with her father Leo in the dancehalls, then became fixated with the likes of Joni Mitchell and the Beach Boys beforegoing on to share, with her band Clannad, an enlightening discovery of theextraordinary wealth of Celtic history and melody on her doorstep.

Clannad sent tremors through the world of traditional music. With Harry’s Gamethey took the Irish language and its melodies to places that it had never beenbefore. Top of the Pops, major record contracts and world tours. The accoladesfollowed -Ivor Novello and BAFTA awards plus, after several nominations, aGrammy award in 1999. Their music was fresh, vibrant and progressive.

Alongside all of this, Moya has developed an individuality which has already shownitself in her expanding body of work. When an artist’s career can often bemeasured in months, hers spans decades. Through this clamorous journey, throughschool halls, folk clubs, festivals, discos, churches, the world’s most renownedconcert halls she has travelled purposefully and always focused. The power of herwhispered tones and the beauty of her music touch the soul. Gently, yetpersistently, her songs and her music are redefining Irish music.

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Horns & Things$20.00 Friday 11/10 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

Landmark North Coast Contemporary Jazz Group live at Nighttown!

Featuring: Ken LeeGrand-sax, J.T. Lynch-sax, Sakait Baksar-piano & keys,Derrick James-electric bass, & Ray Harvin-drums.

"Horns & Things" is the powerhouse contemporary jazz ensemble that has pleasedaudiences throughout the years! The group was founded by saxophonists J.T.Lynch and Ken LeeGrand. In an effort to find a place for their music, which could fitthe modern genre and fulfill the needs if the Main Stream market, they teamed withBassist, Derrick James, Keyboardist, Sakait Baksar and Drummer, Ray Harvin toform the nucleus of the band. Percussionist Bill Ransom has been an addition onvarious recording sessions and performances. This phenomenal group has beenperforming for over twenty years.

They have shared the spotlight with a who's who list of legendary performers fromDexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard and Joe Sample; to contemporary artists thatinclude; Pieces of a Dream, Najee, Ronnie Laws, Kim Waters, Alex Bugnon andMarion Meadows. Horn's & Things has opened for R&B artists such as El Debarge,Phillip Bailey, Millie Jackson and Kevin Eubanks. They have participated in jazzfestivals, headlined in concerts and performed the college circuits. Horn's & Thingshas five recording projects, which includes three C.D.'s. "Till the Dawn," NorthernWind","Da Boss", and their most recent release "Get Your Hat On"

Regardless of the occasion, Horn's & Things has the crossover appeal that pleasesaudiences of all categories and have proven over the years that they are thedynamic, explosive and intense performers required to make your venue thrive.

Don't miss a Nighttown favorite with Horns & Things live at Nighttown.

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Sharon Rae North$20.00 Saturday 11/11 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

Contemporary Jazz Vocalist from Richmond, Virginia back in her home State fornight of Cool Jazz with her group live at Nighttown!

Sharon Rae North is a talented songstress who sings jazz (straight- ahead,contemporary, smooth, standards). Her latest album, a Smooth Jazz/AdultContemporary EP titled Sincerely Yours was a first ballot contender in the Best JazzVocal Album category for the Grammy Awards. Produced by two-time Grammynominated hitmaker Chris “Big Dog” Davis dropped, the first single, a cover ofSting’s “Sister Moon,” immediately soared to #5 Billboard Most Added Smooth Jazz,#4 Smoothjazz.com Top 50 Albums and is charting and in rotation on playlistsworldwide. It’s charted in the U.S. and the U.K., where it reached #14 on the U.K.Soul Chart. Sincerely Yours is expected to be a juggernaut that will move her careerin a whole new direction. .

Her last CD “Gee Baby” collection of straight-ahead jazz standards followed in thefootsteps of her first studio CD, “The Way You Make Me Feel”, a Smooth Jazz/AdultContemporary project which continues to receive airplay in markets internationallyand has received phenomenal reviews.

Sharon sounds just as good live as she does in the studio. She puts on a fabulousperformance and has opened for many national acts, including Joe Sample and theJazz Crusaders, Patti LaBelle. She has been included among opening acts for artistssuch Chaka Khan, Lalah Hathaway, Stanley Clark, Boney James, Chuck Mangione,Norman Brown, Poncho Sanchez, Marcus Johnson, Bob Baldwin and many others.Following her performances at the Jazz at Maymont festival in Richmond, Va.Baldwin has expressed an interest in working with her.

She has performed at venues throughout the U.S., including Atlanta’s GeorgiaAquarium, The Metropolitan Room in New York City, Natalie’s in Columbus, Ohio,Blu Jazz+ in Akron, Ohio, Ritz Carlton Reynolds Plantation, Capital Ale Concert Hallin Richmond, VA, Sambuca in Atlanta, GA, the Hippodrome in Richmond, VA. IsaacHayes Restaurant in Memphis, Twins Jazz in D.C., James River Cellars in Richmond,VA, Bayfest in Mobile, AL, CenterStage in Richmond, VA, Fridays at Sunset and Jazzat Maymont in Richmond, VA, Durham Summer Music Series in NC.

Sharon has performed and/or recorded with top musicians in the industry, includingChris “Big Dog” Davis (Maysa, Gerald Albright, Will Downing, Phil Perry, AlexBugnon, etc.), vocalist/vocal arranger Fred “Freddyboy” Sawyers (Isaac Hayes, WillDowning), James Lloyd (Pieces of a Dream), piano virtuoso Frank “Buzz” Amato(Curtis Mayfield), Others include, Robert “Mousey” Thompson (James Brown) andJimmy “Junebug” Jackson (Jimmy Smith), keyboardists Earl Fleming (Tyler Perryband and Sugarfoot’s Ohio Players), the late Keith “Keecho” Rawls (Peabo Brysonand UniverSoul Circus).

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Kate Taylor$20.00 Sunday 11/12 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Singer/Songwriter and Sister of James Taylor live at Nighttown!

With her East Coast based Trio playing music from her 1971 debut album "SisterKate"!

Kate Taylor was born in Boston and raised up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She hasa life surrounded by music, art and wit. Her father, Dr. Isaac Taylor, was a professorof medicine and Dean of the UNC Medical School at Chapel Hill. He had the soul ofa poet. Her mother, Trudy Taylor, was a singer and an artist and craftsperson. Herbrothers, Alex, James, Livingston and Hugh, are musicians, songwriters, performersand sailors. Kate sang as a youngster and had her first combo at 15. She recordedher first album; Sister Kate, in 1971 with Peter Asher. Her second album; KateTaylor, was produced by her brother James for Columbia Records. Her thirdrecord; It’s in There and It’s Got to Come Out, was recorded at Muscle Shoals SoundStudios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and produced by Barry Beckett, the keyboardistin the famed Muscle Shoals Sound rhythm section. After starting her family, herperforming schedule changed as she took time to raise her daughters. Herdaughters are now launched and Kate is once again bringing her original songs andher favorite covers to her beautiful audiences. Her most recent albums includeBeautiful Road and Fair Time!

THE STORY OF “SISTER KATE”

Kate Taylor released her first album, “SisterKate”, on the Atlantic Records’ Cotillion label,in 1971.

In the early summer of 1969 Kate went toLondon to visit her brother James who hadjust finished recording his first record. It wason Apple Records, the Beatles’ newly formedlabel. James introduced Kate to his producerPeter Asher, of the famed singing duo Peterand Gordon. Peter was now producingrecords for the Beatles.

One day James and Kate were invited to anafternoon gathering at Peter’s country homeoutside of London.Kate left London and came back home to theStates. A month later, Peter called her on thephone, told her he was moving to Los

Angeles and invited her to come to California to make a record.

As the record was being recorded, wonderful musicians contributed their talentsand songs to it. Carole King, Linda Rondstadt, James, Peter, Elton John, DannyKootch Kortchmar, and John Hartford were among the many artists who contributedsongs, musicianship, or both to “Sister Kate”.

The record was released and Kate went on tour. The first single off the record wasan Elton John tune entitled “Country Comfort” from his newly released first album;“Tumbleweed Connection”.

To this day, as Kate travels to perform, her audience continues to let her know justhow much they love “Sister Kate”. Often they appear with their copy of the now 46year old record for Kate, at long last, to sign.

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The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra

The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra$40.00 Wednesday 11/15 7:00 pm Buy Tickets9:00 pm Buy Tickets

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The Big Band in Jazz! The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra are returning to theNighttown Stage!!

Directed by Scotty Barnhart. With Special Guest Vocalist Brianna Thomas.

20 Pc. Orchestra live on Nighttown Stage! Longest running group in JazzHistory….82 Years Strong!!!!

2015 marked the 80th Anniversary of The Count Basie Orchestra. William “CountBasie” (1904-1984) started his orchestra in Kansas City in 1935, and proceeded todevelop and maintain one of the greatest jazz orchestras in music history. With Mr.Basie’s meticulous attention to detail, selecting the very best musicians, andmaking sure that every tune could be danced to, The Count Basie Orchestra soonbecame the favorite for everyone to listen and dance to with it’s irresistible KansasCity Swing beat.

Count Basie was able to get many of the greatest instrumentalists and vocalists injazz to be a part of his orchestra, including Billie Holiday, Lester Young, SweetsEdison, Joe Jones, Joe Williams, Snooky Young, Frank Foster, Thad Jones, FrankWess, and Clark Terry amongst others.

The orchestra has played many times for Kings, Queens, and other members ofRoyalty around the world. Appeared in movies, television shows, tv and radiocommercials, won every respected jazz poll in the world at least once, and has 18Grammy Awards, the most for any orchestra.

Today, under the leadership of it’s Director, Scotty Barnhart, The Count BasieOrchestra is traveling the world celebrating it’s 80th Anniversary and continuing theexcellent standards in swinging and shouting the blues with precision, andcontinuing to be “The Most Explosive Force In Jazz”.

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Joe McBride Trio$20.00 Friday 11/17 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

Playing a tribute to Ray Charles!!

Vocalist, pianist, & Heads Up Recording Artist returns back to Cleveland for oneconcert on the Nighttown Stage!

Featuring: Joe McBride-piano & vocals, TBA-bass, TBA-drums.

Not even blindness can stop Joe McBride. His status as one of today’s most popularcontemporary jazz musicians is rooted in a solid foundation of talent. Born in 1963in Fulton, Missouri, he began playing piano at age four and started singing in highschool. As a teenager, McBride contracted a degenerative eye disease andeventually lost his eyesight, but his passion for music was never impaired. Hecontinued his studies at the Missouri School for the Blind and at Webster Universityin suburban St. Louis. McBride trekked to the sunny shores of San Diego for a while

in suburban St. Louis. McBride trekked to the sunny shores of San Diego for a whilebefore enrolling at North Texas State University to study jazz and performance.

Joe McBride has released seven highly acclaimed CD's, including his latest "LookingFor a Change" on Concord/Heads Up International records.

McBride added another significant title to his impressive discography with the July2009 release of Lookin’ for a Change. On this recording he features songs originallywritten and recorded by a range of pop luminaries, including Gnarls Barkley,Coldplay, John Mayer, Seal and Jill Scott, and reinterprets them via straightaheadjazz arrangements.

“To be honest, I really wanted to try to reach a different audience with my newalbum,” McBride says. “I’m all about growth. It’s all about making the old thingsnew. It’s okay to look back for just a moment, but the more important idea is tokeep our eyes on the future.”

This will be Joe's first concert back in Cleveland in over two years. Don'tmiss the return of the fantastic Joe McBride to Nighttown!

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Badfinger's "Straight Up" with Joey Molland $30.00 Saturday 11/18 8:30 pm Buy Tickets

Sunday 11/19 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Badfinger's Classic 1971 LP "Straight Up" from Apple Records performed Live &Complete, and More with Original Member Joey Molland and the CurrentBadfinger Band!

Playing their Classic Hits including "Come and Get it", "Baby Blue", "Day AfterDay, "No Matter What", "Without You" & More!!

It's the 45th anniversary of the greatest album by Badfinger, 1972's “Straight Up”, and theband's legendary guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist Joey Molland brings the album to thestage in a bracing live show. Featuring 5 tracks written by Joey, Q magazine describedStraight Up as "brimming with mature melodies and bracing verse/chorus interplay", whileNME deemed it "a stone cold beauty of an album" and advised: "Love it like your mother…" George Harrison produced four tracks on the album, "Name of the Game","Suitcase","I'd Die Babe", the latter two written by Molland, and Pete Ham's "Day AfterDay", which gave the group a Top 5 U.S. single. AllMusic says " there's absolutely no fillerand everybody is in top form". The album, which also featured "Baby Blue", stayed on theBillboard Top Pop Albums chart for 32 weeks.

Billboard Top Pop Albums chart for 32 weeks. Badfinger's classic lineup of Tom Evans, Pete Ham, Mike Gibbins, and Joey Molland cametogether in 1969, as the group changed it's name from the Iveys. One of the originalsignings to the Beatles’ Apple Records label, they had their first hit single with a PaulMcCartney penned song, "Come and Get It", which went to #7 in the U.S. charts. Badfingerfollowed this with their own compositions "No Matter What", "Day After Day" (produced byGeorge Harrison), and "Baby Blue", which went to #8, #4 and #14 respectively.

Both Maria Carey(1994) and Harry Nilsson(1971) covered Badfinger's classic ballad"Without You" and took it to #1 on the U.S. charts. Joey Molland and Badfinger playedalongside John Lennon on his “Imagine” album, with Ringo on his smash “It Don't ComeEasy”, and with George Harrison on his "All Things Must Pass". On stage, they backedGeorge, Ringo, and Bob Dylan on the Concert for Bangladesh.

Today Badfinger features original guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Joey Molland. InOctober 2010, Apple reissued the Badfinger catalog, all with bonus tracks, as part of amassive promotional effort to celebrate all the great artists that are part of the Applefamily. The albums “Magic Christian Music”, “No Dice”, “Straight Up”, and “Ass” are allbeing reissued, with a total of 21 combined bonus tracks.

Badfinger’s “Baby Blue” has enjoyed extensive and enduring appeal in television and film.It was featured in Martin Scorcese’s film, “The Departed,” the highly popular TV drama,“The O.C.”, but its most spectacular resurgence came when it was featured in the closingscene of the finale of AMC’s classic series, “Breaking Bad” in September 2013. In the firstfull week following the finale of the show, the group's "Baby Blue," equaled its 1972 Hot100 success, by roaring back onto the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart at No. 14, thanks tohefty sales and streaming gains.

Joey Molland released a new record, titled “Return to Memphis”, in 2014.

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"XTreme Music Theater Concert" - Baldwin WallaceMusical Theater Seniors$15.00 Monday 11/20 7:00 pm Buy Tickets

Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater Senior Class

Hot on the heels of what has been an exhilarating four years of training atBaldwin Wallace University, join the Musical Theatre seniors as they return toNighttown to perform songs from Rent, Aladdin and Edges.

From lead roles on Broadway and London's West End to prime time television, filmand more, students from Baldwin Wallace’s music theatre (BWMT) program havegarnered top acclaim for more than 20 years.

Recently ranked as number two of the top ten Music Theatre programs in thecountry by College Magazine, Program Director Victoria Bussert continues to leadstudents to successful careers.

Click here for Plain Dealer article "Baldwin Wallace University's Victoria Bussert hasmolded talent, lighted the way for Broadway-bound actors"

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Monday, October 9 Eric Andersen 7 PM $20.Legendary Singer/Songwriter and Trio hit the Stage at Nighttown!

Tuesday, October 10 Paul Ferguson / Greg Abate Quintet 7 PM $10.Sax Master Greg Abate & Trombone virtuoso and leader of the CJO Paul Ferguson co-lead Quintet Live atNighttown!Featuring players from the CWRU Jazz Program and More!

Wednesday, October 11 Benny Bennack Quartet 7 PM $15.From NYC! Jazz Trumpet Master and Vocalist makes Cleveland debut with his NYC live at Nighttown!Featuring: Benny Bennack-trumpet & vocals, Takeshi Ohbayashi-piano, Alex Claffy-bass, & Joe Peri-drums.

Friday & Saturday, October 13 & 14 Nellie McKay 8:30 PM Both Nights $30.

$30.Back by Popular Demand! Singer Songwriter, Pianist, & Comedienne Live on the Nighttown Stage forTwo Big Nights!

Sunday, October 15 Mo Mojo 7 PM $10.Zydeco, Blues, Jazz, Folk, and much more from Jen Maurer and company. Celebrating Jen's birthday!!!

Thursday, October 19 Gabrielle Stravelli Quartet 8 PM $20. Jazz Vocalist Extraordinaire makes Cleveland debut with her NYC group Live at Nighttown!As featured with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Playing music from her new CD"Dream Ago".

Friday & Saturday, October 20 & 21 Diego Figueiredo & Chuchito Valdes 8:30 PM $30.Brazil meets Cuba when these two masters of guitar and piano take the Stage Live at Nighttown!!

Sunday, October 22 Jackie Warren / Joshua Smith Duo 7 PM $10.Dynamic Duo featuring Jackie Warren-piano, & Joshua Smith-sax (based in SF Ca.) live at Nighttown!

Monday, October 23 “Out There: BW Alumni Return to Cleveland” 7 PM $15.Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater Alumni take the stage at Nighttown!“Out There: BW Alumni Return to Cleveland”….Proceeds for this first-ever BW alumni event go towards the Kyle Jean-Baptiste Foundation, in honor ofBroadway performer and BW alumnus who passed away a couple of years ago.

Wednesday, October 25 Mark Russo Quintet - Tribute to Horace Silver 7PM $10.North Coast Trumpeter leads Quintet playing the music of Jazz Legend Horace Silver live at Nighttown!Featuring: Mark Russo-trumpet, Tim McDonald-sax, Anthony Fuoco-piano, Aidan Plank-bass, & RickyExton-drums.

Thursday, October 26 Chieli Minucci & Special EFX 7 & 9 PM $30.Guitarist extraordinaire and Legendary Contemporary Jazz Group hit the stage at Nighttown! Playingmusic from their new CD "Deep as the Night".Featuring: Chieli Minucci-guitar, Lao Tizer-keyboards, Jerry Brooks-bass, & Joel Rosenblatt-drums.

Friday, October 27 Ralph Moore with the Josh Nelson Trio 8:30 PM $20.From Los Angeles, Ca.. Ralph Moore, Dynamic Saxophonist from the Tonight Show Band with KevinEubanks, and also from the bands of Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton, and JJ Johnson takesthe stage at Nighttown with the exciting young LA pianist Josh Nelson & Trio.Featuring: Ralph Moore-sax, Josh Nelson-piano, Alex Boneham-bass, & Dan Schnelle-drums.

Saturday, October 28 The Numbers Band (15-60-75) 8:30 PM $10.From Kent, Ohio! Celebrating their 47th Year! Northeast Ohio Jazz, Blues, & Rock Legends hit the Stageat Nighttown!Featuring: Bob Kidney-guitar & vocals, Jack Kidney-harmonica, sax, keys, & vocals, Terry Hynde-sax, BillWatson-bass, & Clint Alguire-drums.

Sunday, October 29 Chanelle McCloud & Chemistry 7 PM $20.Profess Chanelle McCloud & 4 Pc. group Chemistry seamlessly intertwines spoken word, story telling,and music Live at Nighttown!

Monday, Oct. 30 Olli Soikkeli All Star International Trio 7 PM $20.Master Gypsy Jazz Guitarist leads Global All Star Group at Nighttown.Featuring: Olli Soikkeli-guitar (Finland), Albert Pibiri-piano (Italy), & Elias Bailey-acoustic bass (USA).Also Featuring Special Guest Opening Act Hot Djang!

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Thursday, November 2 Seth L. Johnson Trio 8 PM $15.Guitarist and vocaliste extraordinaire & Cleveland Hts. Native now living in NYC back for hometown gigwith NYC based Trio Live at Nighttown!Featuring: Seth Johnson-guitar & vocals, Jordan Scannella-bass, Shirazette Tinnin-drums & percussion.

Friday & Saturday, Nov. 3-4 Alex Bugnon 8 & 10 PM each night $30.Pianist and Contemporary Jazz Superstar and his group back on stage at Nighttown for Big Weekend!

Sunday, Nov, 5 Helen Welch 7 PM $20.Jazz Vocalist extraordinaire From London, England and resident of NE Ohio, and group live on theNighttown Stage!

Monday, Nov. 6 Moya Brennan 7 PM $30.Direct from Ireland! First Lady of Celtic and her group back on Stage Live at Nighttown!Lead vocalist from the Grammy Winning Irish Super Group Clannad!

Friday, November 10 Horns & Things 8:30 PM $20.Landmark North Coast Contemporary Jazz Group live at Nighttown!Featuring: Ken LeeGrand-sax, J.T. Lynch-sax, Sakait Baksar-piano & keys, Derrick James-electric bass, &Ray Harvin-drums.

Saturday, Nov. 11 Sharon Rae North 8:30 PM $20.Contemporary Jazz Vocalist from Richmond, Virginia back in her home State for night of Cool Jazz withher group live at Nighttown!

Sunday, November 12 Kate Taylor 7 PM $20.Singer/Songwriter and Sister of James Taylor live at Nighttown!With her East Coast based Trio playing music from her 1971 debut album "Sister Kate"!

Wed. & Thurs. Nov. 15-16 The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra 7 & 9 PM Both Nights $40.The Big Band in Jazz! The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra are returning to the Nighttown Stage!!Directed by Scotty Barnhart. With Special Guest Vocalist Brianna Thomas.20 Pc. Orchestra live on Nighttown Stage! Longest running group in Jazz History….82 Years Strong!!!!

Friday, November 17 Joe McBride Trio 8:30 PM $20.Playing a tribute to Ray Charles!!Vocalist, pianist, & Heads Up Recording Artist returns back to Cleveland for one concert on the NighttownStage!Featuring: Joe McBride-piano & vocals, TBA-bass, TBA-drums.

Sat & Sun, Nov. 18-19 Badfinger's "Straight Up" with Joey Molland Sat 8:30 PM Sun 7 PM $30.Badfinger's Classic 1971 LP "Straight Up" from Apple Records performed Live & Complete, and More withOriginal Member Joey Molland and the Current Badfinger Band!Playing their Classic Hits including "Come and Get it", "Baby Blue", "Day After Day, "No Matter What","Without You" & More!!

Mon Nov 20 “XTreme Music Theater Concert”: Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater Senior Class 7 PM $15.Performing songs from Rent, Aladdin and Edges.

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