Drummer Sean Dobbins showcases Tim Kohn, a junior at Community High School. Tim performs with Community's top combo, the Huron River Rat Jazz Orchestra and Spartan Youth Jazz Orchestra of  Community Music School-Detroit. Tim has participated in several MSBOA groups including All State Band, All State Jazz Band and Michigan Youth Arts Festival Jazz Band and he was a section head for Interlochen's Summer Jazz Program. When he is not performing Tim enjoys running for the River Rat cross country team ...

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PD9 Sun Ra Band, a side project from the Planet D Nonet, is a heartfelt musical tribute to Sun Ra, “with a Detroit twist.” The Planet D Nonet is about swing, blues, space-age jazz and classic American songs all served with plenty of good humor. If you have not yet experienced Planet D Nonet, your groove tank is missing out on some serious fuel. Justin Jozwiak, alto sax Dan Bennett, tenor sax Goode Wyche III, baritone sax James O'Donnell, trumpet ...

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Harlem based piano phenom, Emmet Cohen, swings through town with his all-star trio featuring Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s bassist, Russell Hall, and drummer Kyle Poole, recently on tour with Cecile McLorin Salvant. Emmet Cohen has quickly become one of the most in demand jazz musicians in New York. A finalist in both the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition and the 2015 American Pianists Association’s Fellowship, Cohen plays with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned veteran. With astonishing ...

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Ellen Rowe and her trio present a concert and lecture series exploring various aspects of the jazz piano trio. Ellen Rowe, piano Paul Keller, bass Pete Siers, drums Buy Tickets Future performances: April 7 • May 12

American composer and pianist Lisa K. Hilton will be performing new compositions from her latest release, entitled OASIS – which is defined as: Something serving as a refuge or relief. Hilton’s expressive and impressionistic compositions explore the soundscape of jazz and blues alongside classical and modernist ideas fueled by the inspiration from past composers Count Basie, Horace Silver, George Gershwin, Robert Johnson as well as Rachmaninoff. Lisa Hilton, jazz piano Buy Tickets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaEp-EsU8mw

Shawn Maxwell’s New Tomorrow is a quintet made up of five of Chicago’s finest musicians. Performing all original material, they specialize in a style of jazz that is heavily influenced and blended with several other modern genres. Focusing on composition just as much as improvisation, they reveal stunning melodies hidden within complex time signatures. Shawn Maxwell, saxophone Buy Tickets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc5u9SygSW0

Ellen Rowe and her trio present a concert and lecture series exploring various aspects of the jazz piano trio. Ellen Rowe, piano Paul Keller, bass Sean Dobbins, drums  Buy Tickets Future performance:  May 12

Caleb Wheeler Curtis and Marta Sanchez will be returning for another spectacular duo performance of original compositions, improvisations and jazz standards showcasing their dynamic and highly developed approaches to saxophone and piano. "The music Marta Sanchez writes gets intricate, but she also gets memorable effects using simple means. That's part of what she gets from pop or medieval music. She can make a melody out of one note and the right rhythm. Jelly Roll Morton called that kind of spark ...

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