Wednesday, February 17 2010

A classic piano & bass duo with a vast repertoire of tunes from the American songbook. Paul's great baritone vocals are touching, sometimes humorous, always tasteful! An intimate and romantic evening. Join us!

With its heart-wrenching harmonies, poignant lyrics, and rooted Americana sound, this talented Boston-based quartet has quickly won over audiences across New England. The David Wax Museum’s exuberant Mexo-Americana songs bring audiences to their feet with Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and donkey jawbone rattling.

“The Boston-based quintet melds traditional American-folk sensibilities with spicy Mexican heat, creating a singular style they’ve dubbed ‘Mexo-Americana.’ And it seems to be taking.”- Seven Days, Burlington, VT http://www.davidwaxmuseum.com

HT Productions will present “An Evening With The Manhattan Transfer” celebrating their 40 years together and their new CD, The Chick Corea Songbook.

The Manhattan Transfer is Cheryl Bentyne, vocals; Tim Hauser, vocals; Alan Paul, vocals and Janis Siegel, vocals. The Transfer will perform with their quartet featuring keyboardist and music director Yaron Gershovsky, bassist Gary Wicks, drummer Steve Hass and guitar Adam Hawley. The group remains a major staple both within the jazz community and the mainstream music community, as they continue to enlighten listeners by bringing different genres of music to the forefront of the jazz.

The Chick Corea Songbook, which marks the highly innovative vocal quartet’s first new record in five years, was inspired by the classic work of jazz great Chick Corea, and features fresh and exciting vocal interpretations of many of his popular compositions, including “Spain” and “500 Miles High.” Corea, who plays on the CD, has also contributed an original composition entitled “Free Samba” especially for this album. This release also features special guest appearances by some of the finest musicians in the industry including Christian McBride, Airto, Alex Acuña, Fred Hersch, Edsel Gomez and Lou Marini, among others.

Tickets at $48 and $38 will be on sale as of Friday, January 29 at all Ticketmaster outlets, at the Wilbur Theatre Box Office, on line at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling: 800-745-3000. For more information, call: 617-248-9700. The Wilbur Theatre is wheelchair accessible.

In celebration of their new CD release as well as 40 years in the entertainment industry, Manhattan Transfer is touring throughout 2009—2010 (with more dates to come). For more information, please visit www.manhattantransfer.net.

Charlie Kohlhase has been leading bands in Boston for the last quarter century. His latest group, the Explorers Club, is a fully-realized 7-piece ensemble of virtuosos capable of executing his most convoluted compositional designs. Drawing on 100 years of Jazz history, as well as influences of rhythm and blues, 20th century composed music and world music traditions, the Explorers Club is a group firmly rooted in the past but unquestionably driving the music forward in the 21st century. http://www.charliekohlhase.com/

More than just a blues musician, Corey Harris is a seeker. For more than a decade, the guitaristvocalist- songwriter has dug for the deepest and truest essence of the blues, reggae, gospel and other roots music by examining and celebrating their origins in various and diverse cultural centers – Africa, the Caribbean, North America and beyond.

Bruce Marshall, a celebrated singer songwriter from Concord, will host acoustic open mike every Wednesday night. Musicians are invited to perform with Bruce or solo. .

Music by Hersch, Monk, Jobim and more

This is a regular weekly event on Wednesday nights with:

Jerry Bergonzi/ saxophone www.jerrybergonzi.com

Bruce Gertz/ bass www.brucegertz.com

Bob Kaufman/ drums www.theartofdrumming.com

Phil Grenadier/ trumpet www.myspace.com/philgrenadier

Occasionally one or more of the guys are on the road on a given week, so there may be wonderful subs--please call and ask if you're looking for a particular instrumentalist.