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Musiclab Presents The Jazz Passengers at Temple Beth El Of Northern Valley
Courtesy of Dana Hall | Posted on December 25, 2016
Where
Temple Beth El Of Northern Valley
221 Schraalenburgh Road
Closter, NJ
Map
201-768-5112
When
Sat, January 14, 2017
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Roy Nathanson
saxophoneCurtis Fowlkes
tromboneBrad Jones
bassBill Ware
vibraphoneSam Bardfeld
violinEJ Rodriguez
drumsBen Perowsky
drumsAbout
Doors open at 7:30
Concessions for sale before the concert and during intermission.
$15 each online
$20 at the door
The JAZZ PASSENGERS are a fantastical fusion of post-bop and musical comedy, once called a perverse mainstream hard-bop group as imagined by Frank Zappa. (Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe, 1989). Their name, a take-off on Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, reveals the musicians wild ride along the eccentric currents in modern American music. Saxophonist Roy Nathanson and trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, who found strong affinity in their Brooklyn roots while together in the band of the Big Apple Circus and John Luries seminal band, The Lounge Lizards, founded the band in 1987. They first broke out on the New York City avant-garde scene centering around the Knitting Factory with a hybrid of Mingus-influenced dance rhythms and original tunes complete with lyrics and/or entertaining stories....