Don’t miss Harvey Mason’s album release party!

Blue Whale

Shows
8:00 pm & 10:00 pm

Tickets: $20
Box office: (213) 620-0908

123 Astronaut ES Onizuka St. Suite 301, Los Angeles, CA 90012 

Get Harvey Mason’s new album ‘Chameleon’…

$10

…only at Amazon.

TOUR DATES

CHUCK LOEB

MAY 15

Big Blue’s River Raisin Nights, USA

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Over the course of his 35-year career, Nathan East has worked with the crème de la crème of the music world: Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Randy Newman, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones – and, of course, Eric Clapton, with whom he’s recorded and toured with since 1985.

Which more or less explains why it’s taken the bass legend so long to finally record his very own solo album. “It’s a good excuse – I’ve been busy!” East says with a laugh. “Between the bands I’ve been in, the tours I’ve been on and the records I’ve cut, it’s been difficult to sneak my own thing in there. But once I found a block of time last year, I booked Ocean Way Studios in LA, got the band in and recorded as many tracks as we could.”

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Click above to enter for your chance to win a signed…

…Yamaha BB1024X Bass…

…TC Electronic BG250-112 Bass Combo…

…plus a copy of the new self-entitled CD Nathan East!

The Hall of Fame Award (formerly Citation of Merit) was established to recognize and honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to society, their profession, the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, one of its departments or programs, or to the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Alumni Society. This award has been presented annually since 1977.

Bob James is a two-time GRAMMY award-winning smooth jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer. James is recognized as one of the progenitors of smooth jazz, however, his music has also had a profound effect on the history of hip hop music, having been sampled often. Two of James’ songs – “Nautilus” from 1974’s Oneand “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” from 1975’s Two  – are among the most sampled in hip hop history. He was discovered by Quincy Jones at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival in 1963, and subsequently recorded his first solo album, Bold Conceptions, that year for Mercury Records.

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Grammy Award winning Jazz Legend Bob James returns to the Milliken Auditorium with the Bob James Quartet.  Featuring James on piano, Clarence Penn on drums, Perry Hughes on guitar and Nate Phillips on bass.

Bob James was discovered at the 1963 Notre Dame Jazz Festival by legendary producer Quincy Jones.  That same year he recorded his first solo album “Bold Conceptions” for Mercury Records. From there he went on to make his  mark as the musical director for Sarah Vaughn.  Bob also worked on many successful albums for CTI Records.

In 1977 James started his is own label, Tappan Zee Records, which gave him the opportunity to spend more time in the studio working on his own recordings.  During that time he recorded the gold award winning album “Touch Down,” which included his composition “Angela” from the TV show Taxi.

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