The California Jazz Basis (CJF) presents its annual “Give the Band a Hand” Gala fundraiser on Saturday, April 26, at 5:30 p.m., on the Omni Los Angeles Resort, 251 S. Olive St. in Los Angeles.
CJF is a nonprofit group began in 2006 to help and help California jazz musicians in monetary and medical disaster. Up to now CJF has touched the lives of greater than 500 jazz musicians, offering lease and mortgage funds, housing relocation, arranging for medical and dental care, in-home nursing, low cost prescriptions and serving to with different emergencies as they come up.
The night, hosted by jazz radio deejay LeRoy Downs, will function stay and silent auctions, a gourmand dinner, video tributes, award displays and stay music. The live performance will function main jazz artists paying musical tribute to our honorees.
A few of the proficient musicians anticipated to seem embrace Hubert Legal guidelines with musician siblings Ronnie, Debra and Eloise Legal guidelines and singer Tierney Sutton. Pianist Joe Alterman, a longtime buddy and scholar of the late Les McCann, can even carry out with McCann band alumni together with drummer Donald Dean. Jazz educator Fernando Pullum’s scholar group can even carry out.
Hubert Legal guidelines might be honored with the Nica award, which is given to people who exemplify the legacy of Baroness Pannonica (Nica) de Koenigswarter, the long-lasting patron of such nice jazz artists as Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. Legal guidelines is an internationally famend flutist and Nationwide Endowment for the Arts Jazz Grasp.
He was chosen the primary flutist within the well-known DownBeat readers’ ballot ten years in a row and was the critics’ selection for seven consecutive years. Legal guidelines has appeared in golf equipment, concert events and festivals all over the world, together with the Montreux, Playboy and Kool jazz festivals.
As a recording artist Legal guidelines has garnered three Grammy nominations. He has recorded greater than 23 albums together with collaborations with such nice artists as Chick Corea, Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Surprise, Paul McCartney and Carly Simon.
CJF will honor the late pianist, composer and vocalist Les McCann with the Heritage award. McCann was an innovator within the soul jazz type, fusing jazz with funk, soul and world rhythms. His influential music has been sampled by many prime hip-hop artists together with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and The Infamous B.I.G..
McCann loved an extended relationship with Atlantic Data, releasing a dozen albums on the legendary jazz label from the late-‘60s by way of to the mid-‘70s. Throughout that run, McCann launched “Swiss Motion” with frequent collaborator saxophonist Eddie Harris. The album earned a Grammy nomination for finest jazz efficiency and included the hit protest tune “In comparison with What.” McCann additionally found and mentored famous person pop singer the late Roberta Flack, signing her to Atlantic the place she had a number of hits within the Seventies.
Photographer Bob Barry has been documenting the jazz music scene in Los Angeles, Kansas Metropolis and venues round the USA and Europe for 28 years and is a longtime member of the CJF board. Barry will obtain the inaugural President’s Award, created to acknowledge volunteers who’ve made a large number of contributions to CJF and to the jazz group.
Barry’s jazz pictures is held within the everlasting collections of the American Jazz Museum in Kansas Metropolis and the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum in Culver Metropolis, California. A assortment of his work is on everlasting show within the Henry Mancini Constructing on the NBC Common Studios in Los Angeles. He has additionally revealed a e book of his photographs chronicling legendary guitarist John Pisano’s 22 year-long stay jazz guitar sequence “Guitar Evening.”
Michael Dolphin is a Los Angeles jazz historian and vice-president of the California Jazz Basis. For extra info on the Gala, name 818-261-0057 or go to www.californiajazzfoundation.org.
