The
Revive Big Band
The
musical styles, experience, and tastes of Revive’s members vary widely, but
their collective mission is the same. “We’re carrying on, within the tradition
of big bands, what would be relevant today,” bandleader Igmar Thomas says.
“[We're] modifying the message and making it translatable, accessible to the
people, so that they have something relevant to grasp on to. It represents that
little bridge.” Revive’s
repertoire is an authentic gumbo, featuring original compositions by Thomas, as
well as epic orchestrations of selected productions from different producers
and notable Hip-Hop songs combined with the original sampled jazz record, all
re-imagined and arranged into original works for a big band. “Our voice is one
that has a foot deeply placed in the jazz roots and the tradition of that, à la
Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie – but also, another foot deeply invested in
2013, and so on. That’s the direction: Dizzy, Dilla, and us,” declares Thomas.
Bilal
A
classically trained vocal veteran, Bilal released his debut album 1st Born
Second in 2001, which boasted the popular single “Soul Sista.” The follow-up,
Love for Sale (2006), was shelved but leaked entirely online yet was well
received to fans and music critics and has become an underground classic. In
the following years, Bilal has collaborated and performed with some of the
industry’s most prominent artists including, Beyonce (Fighting Temptations),
Common (Like Water for Chocolate, Electric Circus, Be, Finding Forever), Jay-Z
(American Gangster), Erykah Badu (New Amerykah Part One, New Amerykah Part
Two), Robert Glasper (All Matter), Boney James (Better With Time), Musiq
(Soulstar) and The Roots among others. He also covered Radiohead’s “High &
Dry” for the 2006 Radiohead tribute, Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads. Bilal
also appears in Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.
Dr.
Lonnie Smith
Dr.
Lonnie Smith is an unparalleled musician, composer, performer and recording
artist. An authentic master and guru of the Hammond B-3 organ for over five
decades, he has been featured on over seventy albums, and has recorded and
performed with a virtual “Who’s Who” of the greatest Jazz, Blues and R&B
giants in the industry. Consequently, he has often been hailed as a “Legend,” a
“Living Musical Icon,” and as the most creative Jazz organist by a slew of
music publications. Jazz Times magazine describes him as “a riddle wrapped in
an enigma wrapped in a turban!” Always ahead of the curve, it is no surprise
Dr. Smith’s fan-base is truly worldwide.
Ticket
and Show Information
Tickets
are required. Tickets are $15 in advance/$18 day of show
Doors
open at 7:00PM
Concert
begins at 8:00PM
For more
event information, including group ticket sales, please visit Le Poisson
Rouge’s website at:
http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/wjf10-summerstage-showcase-january-9th-2013/
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