Danny Hull: Musically This Week Vol XV, No 49

Hello friends.  A simple thank you isn't enough, but it is indeed sincere.  So thank you to Ronnie Corsaro.  Thank you Carol Calato.  Thank you to Sandra Hays and Lori Presti.  Thank you to all of the sponsors and volunteers who so unselfishly gave of their energy and their time.  The success of the incomparable Lewiston Jazz Festival is testament to the effort and the commitment of these generous souls.  What a privilege to be a part of it and to be associated with such heartfelt and caring individuals...  The greater jazz community is in your debt.

Tuesday, 8/27 at Milkie's Elmwood     

trioPAYAZZO plus 2

7:00 - 10:00

trioPAYAZZO plus 2

Harry Fackelman, saxophone     Andy Peruzzini, trumpet     Bernard Kunz, guitar     Marc Cousins, bass     your host, drum set

I have to admit I don't get it.  You've likely heard of trioPAYAZZO.  They get gigs.  They have a following.  And all this success without the services of a cooperating drummer...  What kind of world do we live in?  I look at it as a corruption of that old Nancy Reagan thing - just say no to drums.  So in the interest of all that is fair, I've forced myself on them.  Stop in if you can.  Hear the damage that one slightly miffed musician can do with an array of percussive choices.  Milkie's on Elmwood, at the intersection of West Utica & Elmwood Avenue.  882-5881

Tuesday, 9/10 at Milkie's Elmwood     7:00 - 10:00

A Jones Summit

Michael T. Jones, piano      Bobby Jones, piano     Cameron Kayne, bass     your host, drum set

Upcoming at Milkie's Elmwood

Tuesday, 9/3 (Labor Day Break)

Tuesday, 10/15 Patty Flaherty & Craig Kastelnik

links...

www.milkiesonelmwood.com/

www.BuffaloLiveJazz.com

To stick my hands in the toaster...

He has to be a great drummer to be better than no drummer.

 - Chet Baker

Health,

Hope,

Dialogue,

Respect,

Tolerance,

Friendships,

dan

Danny Hull: Musically This Week Vol XV, No 48

Hello friends.  A fantastic week that ends with the Lewiston Jazz Festival...

Tuesday, 8/20 at Milkie's Elmwood     7:00 - 10:00

Bobby Jones, piano     George Kane, guitar     Danny Ziemann, bass     your host, drum set

Again, a new and different quartet, this time comprised of three veterans and a 20-something - but a 20-something with enough experience to qualify as a veteran...  Always searching for ways to blend the extraordinary talent in this town and to present creative music of American roots...  Milkie's on Elmwood, at the intersection of West Utica & Elmwood Avenue.  882-5881

Wednesday, 8/21 at Milkie's Elmwood     7:15 - 9:15

Buffalo Brass open rehearsal

Back in the big chair after subbing out to play Ronnie Corsaro's gazebo gig this summer...  More accurately - the other big chair...  Dennis Tribuzzi plays a rather significant role at lead trumpet.  Acknowledged: drum set is critical in a big band.  But if Dennis is your lead player, and you're not listening to him, you have much to learn.  This is a rehearsal, not a performance - open to the public and free of charge.  We're preparing for an upcoming Sunday performance at Milkie's, and you are invited to sit ringside and learn how Phil takes 17 disparate musicians and creates a cohesive whole that swings, that hits together, and makes music as one.

Saturday, 8/24 at the Lewiston Jazz Festival

Main Stage 12:00 - 1:30

Mike Kaupa Quintet

Mike Kaupa, trumpet     Bruce Johnstone, baritone saxophone     Chris Ziemba, piano     Buddy Fadale, bass     yours truly, drum set

Don't sit home Tuesday night in favor of this weekend's Lewiston Jazz Festival.  Do both.  At Milkie's Elmwood we offer an intimate setting where the listener can get up-close-and-personal with the music and the performers.  But as a veteran of every Lewiston Jazz Fest since its inception, I can't offer enough praise and encouragement.  Shall we start with the fact that it's free?  Free?  Really?  Have you checked out the schedule?  Another Niagara Frontier embarrassment of riches...  Ronnie Corsaro, Carol Calato, Hannah Hays, and the generous sponsors who labor for this event for an entire year should all be enshrined.  If the summer has to end, this is the way to end it.

Frontier House     5:30 - 7:30

Bob Sneider, guitar     Bobby Jones, piano     Danny Vitale, bass     your correspondent, drum set

And speaking of new-to-us quartets, Bobby Jones has never had the pleasure of playing music with Rochester's Danny Vitale.  Wait till he feels that pulse...

next Tuesday, 8/27 at Milkie's Elmwood     7:00 - 10:00

trioPAYAZZO plus 2

Harry Fackelman, saxophone     Andy Peruzzini, trumpet     Bernard Kunz, guitar     Marc Cousins, bass     your host, drum set

Upcoming at Milkie's Elmwood

Tuesday, 10/15 Patty Flaherty & Craig Kastelnik

links...

www.milkiesonelmwood.com/

www.BuffaloLiveJazz.com

http://www.lewistonjazz.com/

So come out and share it with us...

What we play is life.

 - Louis Armstrong

Health,

Hope,

Dialogue,

Respect,

Tolerance,

Friendships,

dan

Danny Hull: Musically This Week Vol XV, No 47

Hello friends.  For your consideration...

Tuesday, 8/13 at Milkie's Elmwood     7:00 - 10:00

Tim Clarke, trumpet     Kenny Kuriscak, saxophones     George Caldwell, piano     Cameron Kayne, bass     your host, drum set

I think we have yet another new quintet offering, never before presented to a discerning audience.  Amazing how that can happen, especially considering that the local jazz community of musicians, who for the most part all know each other, can still find different ways to connect and share in their musical explorations.  So explore we shall.  We talked about arranging a rehearsal, but that's as far as it got - talk.  Newly configured, we'll bring our musical and physical roots to bear, and test the limits of a collective creativity.  Tim Clarke arrived in Buffalo from Eugene, Oregon by way of a demanding position at Fisher Price.  George Caldwell was coaxed here from New York City and Clarksdale, Mississippi by way of love and marriage.  Kenny, Cameron, and I are all Niagara Frontier born and raised.  No matter one's roots, the music transcends geography.  We'll convene this Tuesday, and we'll play.  We hope you'll join us.  Milkie's on Elmwood, at the intersection of West Utica & Elmwood Avenue.  882-5881

Wednesday, 8/14 at the Hennepin Gazebo, Lewiston  

Ronnie Corsaro - piano & arrangements 

   7:00 - 9:00

The Upstate Express

Ronnie Corsaro - piano & arrangements     Tim Clarke - trumpet     Ricky Fleming - trombone     Russ D'Alba & Kenny Kuriscak - saxophones     Wayne Moose - bass     yours truly - drum set

This will be the season finale for the Upstate Express.  Thanks to Ronnie Corsaro for securing the funding and for inviting me to be a part of it.  It has been a privilege a to play his charts with this group of guys.  Hopefully the tradition will continue next summer and for many summers to follow.

next Tuesday, 8/20 at Milkie's Elmwood     7:00 - 10:00

Bobby Jones, piano     George Kane, guitar     Danny Ziemann, bass     your host, drum set

Upcoming at Milkie's Elmwood

Tuesday, 8/27 trioPAYAZZO plus 2

Tuesday, 10/15 Patty Flaherty & Craig Kastelnik

links...

www.milkiesonelmwood.com/

www.BuffaloLiveJazz.com

http://phattlippz.blogspot.com/

www.georgecaldwelljazz.com/

as is Tuesday's quintet...

History is an intricate web of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

 - Don Rittner

Health,

Hope,

Dialogue,

Respect,

Tolerance,

Friendships,

dan

Danny Hull: Musically This Week Vol XV, No 46

Hello friends.  Still a busy summer...

Mike Kaupa, trumpet 

Tuesday, 8/6 at Milkie's Elmwood 7:00 - 10:00

Mike Kaupa, trumpet     Bobby Jones, piano     Buddy Fadale, bass     your host, drum set

Trumpet is a difficult instrument to master, as is the art of improvisation.  So it stands to reason that if you're an accomplished trumpet player, and you can solo over changes, you are a unique and sought after musician.  But Mike Kaupa takes "unique" to another place entirely.  His haunting sound remains the same, but when he feeds his ideas through an array of pedals and amplified technology, he takes his listener on an aural adventure usually reserved for guitarists and purveyors of the EWI - the Electric Wind Instrument.  In Mike's case however, especially because of his reverence for his roots, the journey is heartfelt and musical.  Don't miss this night if your plans allow.  Milkie's on Elmwood, at the intersection of West Utica & Elmwood Avenue.  882-5881

Wednesday, 8/7 at the Hennepin Gazebo, Lewiston     7

The Upstate Express

:00 - 9:00

The Upstate Express

Ronnie Corsaro - piano & arrangements     Tim Clarke - trumpet     Ricky Fleming - trombone     Russ D'Alba & Kenny Kuriscak - saxophones     Wayne Moose - bass     yours truly - drum set

Now in week five of our summer schedule, Ronnie continues to challenge both himself and his septet.  Rather than play the same music for six weeks, he is digging deeper into his book, and the gems just keep coming.  It is indeed a privilege to play Ronnie's charts with this band.

Thursday, 8/8 at Lakewood Beach Gazebo    

Barbara Jean, vocals 

 7:













Barbara Jean, vocals     Bruce Johnstone, baritone saxophone     Dalt Berringer, piano     Lloyd Howard, bass     your correspondent, drum set

Barbara Jean's southern tier band and the legendary Bruce Johnstone, just down the road from the Chautauqua Institution...

Sunday, 8/11 at The Legends Bar & Grill    2:00 - 5:00

101 Old Falls Street, Niagara Falls

The Ralph Fava Trio

The Ralph Fava Trio

Ralph Fava, guitar     Joe Baudo, organ     yours truly, drum set

The Niagara Fine Arts Program continues its Jazzy Sundays Series, this week with Ralph Fava fronting an organ trio.  There is a small stage on the patio outside the Legends Bar & Grill at the intersection of Old Falls & 1st.

next Tuesday, 8/13 at Milkie's Elmwood     7:00 - 10:00

Tim Clarke, trumpet     Kenny Kuriscak, saxophones     George Caldwell, piano     Cameron Kayne, bass

Upcoming at Milkie's Elmwood

Tuesday, 8/20 George Kane & Bobby Jones

Tuesday, 8/27 trioPAYAZZO plus 2

Tuesday, 10/15 Patty Flaherty & Craig Kastelnik

links...

www.milkiesonelmwood.com/

www.BuffaloLiveJazz.com

www.mikekaupa.com/

www.budfadale.com/

www.barbarajeanjazz.com/

So enjoy today...

The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.

 - Carl Sagan

Health,

Hope,

Dialogue,

Respect,

Tolerance,

Friendships,

dan