Christian McBride June 10 at Miniaci Theater
Saturday, 06/10/2017 – 08:00 pm – 11:11 pm
Miniaci PAC
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd,
Davie, Florida 33314
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Cost: 40

South Florida JAZZ, the area’s premier modern jazz organization, concludes its star-studded 25th Anniversary celebration season by presenting world-renowned bassist Christian McBride with his cryptically named trio Tip City. The performance will take place on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. in the Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the Nova Southeastern University campus, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd, Davie 33314. Tickets are $40 ($10 for students under age 25 with valid I.D.) and can be purchased from Ticketmaster either online via southfloridajazz.org or by calling 954-462-0222.

Bassist Christian McBride is one of those bigger-than-life artists who just burst onto the music scene seemingly in full bloom. His father and great uncle, both well-known Philadelphia bassists, mentored him early. Half of a lifetime ago, by his 21st birthday, he was a remarkably mature player and rapidly becoming everyone’s favorite young acoustic bassist of the 1990s. Christian’s huge sound and prodigious technique, both with plucked and bowed solos, recall the legendary Ray Brown and particularly Paul Chambers. He actually started on electric bass when he was eight and took R&B gigs in high school, but by then he was getting more interested in jazz and playing the acoustic bass. Five Grammys later, he now plays both in a variety of settings.

Featuring: Christian McBride – bass, Emmet Cohen – piano, Mark Whitfield – guitar.

Funding for South Florida JAZZ is provided in part by grant from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Division

Star Cuban pianist makes first SoFla appearance – May 6 – Get tix now
Saturday, 05/06/2017 – 08:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Miniaci PAC
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd,
Davie, Florida 33314
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South Florida JAZZ, the area’s premier modern jazz organization, continues its 25th Anniversary celebration by presenting an emerging star, Cuban pianist HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA with his trio. The performance will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. in the Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the Nova Southeastern University campus, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd, Davie 33314. Tickets are $40 ($10 for students under age 25 with valid I.D.) and can be purchased from Ticketmaster either online via southfloridajazz.org or by calling 954-462-0222.
A scion of an illustrious musical family, the dynamic, emerging star Cuban pianist HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA is one of the brightest lights on Havana’s thriving jazz scene. He won First Prize in Solo Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival and later, a comparable award granted by the French Music Association in 2011. Featuring Harold López-Nussa – piano, Roy Adrián López-Nussa – drums, and Julio César González – bass.
This performance is underwritten in part by a generous donation from Richard and Michele Cabrera in memory of Alan Kleinman.
Funding for South Florida JAZZ is provided in part by grant from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Division.

16th Annual Expressive Arts Performance
Friday, 05/05/2017 – 06:30 pm – 08:30 pm
Nova Southeastern University – Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314

Cost: Free

The 16th Annual Expressive Arts Performance is an annual event offered free to the community, which involves many of the children and adults who participate in the music & art therapy programs at Ann Storck Center. The performers work closely with the music and art therapists to brainstorm ideas for the show, write the script, create the sets, and write and record the music. The performers rehearse for 14 weeks before bringing the show to life on stage, just for your entertainment. The event showcases the creativity and achievements of our individuals and proves that ability is not bound by disability!

Cathedral Choir and Orchestra Spring Concert
Sunday, 04/02/2017 – 07:00 pm – 08:30 pm
First Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale
401 SE 15th Ave.,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

Cost: Free; a $10 donation is requested

Come celebrate spring with First Pres as the Symphony of the Americas joins our Cathedral Choir for an evening of sacred music. Conducted by Robin L. McEachern, the choir and orchestra will perform “Te Deum” by Joseph Haydn and “The Seven Last Words of Christ” by Théodore Dubois. The Symphony has been dazzling audiences in the South Florida area for almost 29 years. Don’t miss this collaborative evening filled with worship and harmony.

RAW: Miami = Fashion + Music + Art + Performances
Sunday, 03/23/2017 – 07:00 pm – 11:30 pm
Revolution Live
100 SW 3rd. Ave,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312
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Cost: Doors @ 7:00 PM | $22 Pre-Sale | $30 Door | 21+

Join us @ RAW: Miami for a local creative explosion of film, fashion, music, art, performing art, hair styling, makeup artistry, photography, accessories and more.

The coolest thing you could do on a Thursday
night! Over 60 artists feat.
THURSDAY MARCH 23 @ REVOLUTION LIVE

Doors @ 7:00 PM | $22 Pre-Sale | $30 Door | 21+

For Tickets: https://www.rawartists.org/miami/cusp

***Fashion Shows
***Pop Up Art-Gallery
***Short Film Screening
***Live Music Performances
***Installations
and more …

Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone at Miniaci Center
Saturday, 03/04/2017 – 08:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Miniaci PAC
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd,
Davie, Florida 33314
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Cost: 40

South Florida JAZZ, the area’s premier modern jazz organization, continues its 25th Anniversary celebration by presenting world-renowned vibraphonist Gary Burton

in a career farewell concert with long-term collaborator, pianist Makoto Ozone. The performance will take place on Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. in the Rose

& Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the Nova Southeastern University campus, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd, Davie 33314. Tickets are $40 ($10 for students under

age 25 with valid I.D.) and can be purchased from Ticketmaster either online via http://www.southfloridajazz.org or by calling 954-462-0222.

Gary Burton is the most important vibraphonist of the modern era. Largely self-taught, he is a major innovator on his instrument because of his conception and

mastery of an extraordinary and four-mallet technique that continues to elude most practitioners. His accomplishments resulted in seven Grammy Awards. He has

been voted Best Vibraphonist innumerably in the important trade polls. In 2016, he was awarded a richly-deserved Fellowship from the National Endowment for the

Arts as a Jazz Master, an honor given only to luminaries who have advanced the art form.

Makoto Ozone (o-zo-nee) was born into a musical family in Kobe, Japan and began to play organ at age two. At twelve, inspired by Oscar Peterson, he switched to

piano. While classically trained, he strove to become a jazz pianist and met Gary Burton when he came to Berklee School of Music in Boston to study in 1980. He

played a classical solo concert in Carnegie Hall in 1983, the same year that he joined Gary’s jazz band. He stayed in the US until 1989, returning to Japan where he

continued performing works from the classical repertoire with major orchestras to rave reviews – a very rare acceptance of a jazz musician.

In 2013, in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of their debut together, Makoto toured with Gary in Japan for a month. They have now collaborated memorably

for over 33 years. This performance for South Florida JAZZ represents the conclusion, as Gary Burton retires from the profession with a brief tour with his friend Makoto.

Music at Mickel with LifeLine: A Tribute to Heart
Friday, 03/24/2017 – 07:30 pm –
Mickel Park
2675 NW 7th Ave.,
Wilton Manors, Florida 33311
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Cost: Free

Come out to the March edition of Music at Mickel, a monthly public concert series hosted by the City of Wilton Manors. This month will feature South Florida cover band LifeLine: A Tribute to Heart, who will perform a wide range of hits by the classic rock group. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Bring a blanket, chairs, and enjoy a beautiful evening in the Island City!

Live Music at Mickel Concert Series with GrindStone
Friday, 02/17/2017 – 07:30 pm – 09:30 pm
Mickel Park
2675 NW 7th Ave.,
Wilton Manors, Florida 33311
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Cost: Free

Join us for a night under the stars during Live Music at Mickel, a monthly public concert series hosted by the City of Wilton Manors. February’s free outdoor concert will feature local band GrindStone, who will entertain the crowd with a fusion of alternative and acoustic rock. Food trucks will be present and beverages will be available for purchase, so come hungry and get ready for a relaxing evening.

Dunlap and Pennington in Concert
Sunday, 02/19/2017 – 07:00 pm – 08:30 pm
First Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale
401 SE 15th Ave.,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
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Cost: Free

The Music Ministry at First Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale is proud to present David Dunlap and Wesley Pennington as part of their concert series. As seen on PBS, the internationally acclaimed keyboardists perform with their own sound and video system, a grand concert piano and a Wersi synthesizer that rivals a full symphony orchestra. The duo’s program will consist of classical selections, jazz and popular music. Large projectors will allow the audience to see the artists up close. Don’t miss this amazing musical experience!

Dunlap and Pennington each have musical careers spanning more than 40 years, and they have performed for thousands across Europe and the United States. Their flamboyant performance style and piano virtuosity has gained them rave reviews around the world.

The New York Standards Quartet at Miniaci Theater
Saturday, 01/07/2017 – 07:45 pm – 11:00 pm
Miniaci Performing Arts Center
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd,
Davie, Florida 33314
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Cost: 40

South Florida JAZZ presents the renowned New York Standards Quartet on Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 7:45 PM at the Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the Nova Southeastern University campus, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd, Davie 33314. Tickets are $40 ($10 for students under age 25 with valid I.D.) and can be purchased from Ticketmaster either online via southfloridajazz.org or by calling 954-462-0222.

Four jazz master musicians formed the New York Standards Quartet (NYSQ) in 2006. The concept was a straightforward one: play jazz standards in a unique way. After performing a lot of original music they thought it would be liberating to play music based on conventional, standard jazz tunes that they had grown up playing. The band has been touring and developing together for more than ten years, and it definitely shows in the empathetic cohesion of the players. Audiences respond well to familiar music that is fresh sounding, accessible, and hard-swinging.

ARTISTIC PERSONNEL
Tim Armacost – tenor & soprano saxophones, flute
David Berkman – piano
Ugonna Okegwo – acoustic bass
Gene Jackson – drums

Funding for South Florida JAZZ is provided in part by grant from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Division

Benny Green Trio at Miniaci
Saturday, 12/03/2016 – 08:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Miniaci Performing Arts Center
3100 Ray Ferrero Blvd,
Davie, Florida 33314
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Cost: $40 ($10 students)

South Florida JAZZ presents the Benny Green Trio Saturday December 3 at 8 PM at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd in Davie.

Benny Green possesses the history of jazz at his fingertips. Combine mastery of keyboard technique with decades of real world experience playing with no one less than the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and it’s no wonder Green has been hailed as perhaps the most exciting hard-swinging, hard-bop pianist to ever emerge from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Since emerging under the tutelage of Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown in the early 1980s, Benny Green has become a highly regarded pianist and bandleader. His efforts to expand upon the language of the classical jazz canon have placed him not only among the best interpreters but also among the vanguard of musicians keeping jazz’s evolution going.

Tickets are $40 ($10 for students with ID 90 min before the show) at southfloridajazz.org or call 954-462-0222. Parking is free above the 1st floor.

Don’t miss the exciting Etienne Charles “Creole Soul” Sextet – Nov 5
Saturday, 11/05/2016 – 08:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Miniaci Performing Arts Center
3100 Ray Ferrero Blvd,
Davie, Florida 33314
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Cost: $40 ($10 students)

South Florida JAZZ presents the Etienne Charles Sextet November 5 at 8 PM. Trinidad-born and still in his 20s, trumpeter Etienne Charles is a compelling and exciting jazz artist ushering the jazz genre into groundbreaking territory His band and new album, Creole Soul, represents a captivating journey of new jazz expression, tapping into myriad styles rooted in his Afro-Caribbean background and plumbing the musical depths of the islands from calypso to Haitian voodoo music, and melding it with jazz. The results are electrifying!

Charles currently teaches jazz trumpet at Michigan State University. “As a person in the new world, I’ve been influenced by so much music. And my family has a mixed background of French, Caribbean, Spanish and African roots…. I come from a a fusion of rhythms, a fusion of cultures. That’s what this band is all about: a jazz-based focus on Creole soul music that is Creole at heart.”

Featuring: Etienne Charles – trumpet and percussion, Brian Hogans – saxophones, Victor Gould – piano, Alex Wintz – guitar, Jonathan Michel – bass, John Davis – drums

The concert will be at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the Nova Southeastern campus, 3100 Ray Ferrero Boulevard in Davie. Tickets are $40 at southfloridajazz.org or (954) 462-0222.

Funding for South Florida JAZZ is provided in part by grant from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Division

South Florida Jazz presents “Great Women in Music”
Saturday, 04/09/2016 – 08:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Rose & Alfred Mianiaci Performing Arts Center
3100 Ray Ferrero Blvd,
Davie, Florida 33314
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On April 9 at 8 PM, South Florida Jazz presents “Celebrating Great Women in Music,” starring Lynne Arriale, Carla Cook, and Grace Kelly, at the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Boulevard in Dania, FL. Tickets are $40 ($10 for students with ID) at southfloridajazz.org or (954) 462-0222.

Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln and Joni Mitchell have established themselves as iconic performers and composers. The depth and authenticity of their music has profoundly influenced generations of musicians and touched audiences worldwide.

Pianist Lynne Arriale, vocalist Carla Cook and alto saxophonist/vocalist Grace Kelly have been moved and influenced by the strength and power of these legends. They celebrate these great women of jazz by sharing their unique reinterpretations of popular classics with passion, soul and sensitivity in a magical evening of empathetic collaboration. Joining them are bassist Evan Gregor and drummer Jordan Perlson.

These artists are highly innovative and original leaders. Lynne is an established star with worldwide status; she was the first prize winner of the 1993 International Great American Jazz Piano Competition, and soon launched her touring and recording career. “Lynne Arriale’s music lies at the synaptic intersection where brain meets heart, where body meets soul. As a result, there’s a directness, a purity, an unalloyed honesty that makes us listen and therefore “see” anew. She is one of jazzdom’s most intensely unique voices.” – JazzTimes

Carla Cook, from “Motown,” Detroit, is daring. She is a jazz singer/songwriter who sings standards beautifully — but she doesn’t stop there. Cook is willing to put a jazz spin on songs not written by traditional jazz composers. Songs that, until you hear her sing them, you’d never imagine could be interpreted as jazz. That willingness to simply sing what she loves is what gives Cook her signature style. “Carla Cook…a mad-loose straight ahead jazz diva with a gospel soul, big band heart, classical cool and improvisational hot …. and what a beautiful voice … a warm amber-hued contralto.” – JazzTimes

Bostonian Grace Kelly is a vivacious saxophone prodigy and composer with incredible polish for her tender age (23). She’s not looking to be like anyone else. “Got my own thing,” she sings over an urban, trance-like groove. Although the singer and saxophone player has been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike as a jazz musician, her work shows an artist interested only in playing what she loves, labels be damned. “Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt… the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.” – Wynton Marsalis

Join Lynne, Carla and Grace for an evening of joyful interaction and musical spontaneity featuring modern jazz classics, reinvented popular favorites, and memorable original compositions.

Funding for South Florida JAZZ is provided in part by a grant from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Division

Auditions for Tri-Rails Senior Stars
Tuesday, 04/05/2016 – 04/05/2016 09:00 am – 05:00 pm
Parker Playhouse
707 NE 8th St.,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33304
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Cost: Free

Seniors 65 years and older with a knack for singing are invited to audition for Tri-Rail’s “Senior Stars.” As part of this annual event, 12 finalists will be chosen to sing their way to the top at the final competition for the chance to win a $500 cash prize and a free pass to ride Tri-Rail for one year.

Tri-Rail’s “Senior Stars” is open to solo singers who are residents of Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. A panel of judges will select the 12 contestants who will go on to compete in the final competition at Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, May 22, hosted by TV/radio personality Jade Alexander.

A portion of show ticket sales will benefit Broward Meals on Wheels, an organization dedicated to improving health, reducing isolation and promoting independent living for seniors in our community. Tri-Rail’s “Senior Stars” sponsors include Boomer Times, Symphony at the Waterways, John Knox Village and Broward Health.

Audition registration is required by calling GPR at (954) 446-0814 by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30.