Thursday Night Jazz at the Black Workers Pub

Presented by
The Black Telephone Workers for Justice
(A group of IBEW and CWA members at Verizon Telephone)

Now that we have come down from the performance by the Bradford Hayes Quartet at our last program, we continue the magic. We are absolutely ecstatic to be able to bring one of the world’s premier trombonists to the “Black Workers Pub.” On Thursday, April 8, 2004, get ready for an incredible performance by “Steve Turre” and his group.

Many of you may have seen Turre on “Saturday Night Live,” as he is the trombonist in the “SNL” band. But Turre is an accomplished musician, innovator, composer, arranger and band leader in his own right.

Turre was born to Mexican American parents and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area where he absorbed daily doses of mariachi, blues and jazz. While attending Sacramento State University, he joined the “Escovedo Brothers Salsa Band,” which began his career in that musical idiom. His career really picked up when, in 1972, Ray Charles hired him to go on tour. A year later Turre’s mentor Woody Shaw brought him into Art Blakey’s “Jazz Messengers.” As many of you know, the “Jazz Messengers” was a “university of jazz” in which many young musicians learned the craft under the guidance of the great Art Blakey. The rest is history! Steve Turre played with Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Max Roach, Rahsann Roland Kirk and many others. It was Rahsann that introduced him to playing sea and conch shells. One foot in the past and one foot in the future, is how Turre’s musical style and approach can be described.

We say this about everyone that comes to play at the BWP, but we especially emphasize it for this next performance: DO NOT MISS THIS GIG! Steve is bringing the world renowned cellist, his wife, Akua Dixon with him. On bass will be the great Kenny Davis. Both Akua and Kenny have played at the Pub before. On Congas and percussion will be the Cuban artist, Pedro Paolis Martinez. On drums will be Dionne Parsons, and on keyboard, Xavier Davis. It’s going to be live!

The BWP is located at 883 Sanford Avenue, Irvington, NJ. There will be two sets: 8:30-9:30 and 10-11pm. Admission is $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Drinks are available at the bar and Shawn will be selling his slammin’ dinners and desserts. For information and reservations, call 201 320 8689 or email blacktel4justice@aol.com. Please help get the word out about the best Thursday nights in NJ. Pass the flyer out on your job, school or neighborhood.



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April 22………………………………….Lenny Roberts/ Freddie Hendrix

May 13…………………………………..Kenny Davis

May 27…………………………………..Salim Washington

“BRINGING THE MUSIC BACK HOME”