SNAP ON 2&4 W/ DON ALIQUO & THE LORI MECHEM QUARTET at Nashville Jazz Workshop

Another year of performances in the Jazz Cave is drawing to a close! The last Snap on 2&4 of 2015 will be on Friday, December 4 at 8PM - and will feature the return of a December tradition in the Jazz Cave: saxophonist Don Aliquo and pianist Lori Mechem.

Don Aliquo hails from Pittsburgh, where he grew up listening to and learning from the city's jazz legends. Following in the footsteps of his father, a well-respected jazz artist himself, Don spent his formative years performing with many of the regions greats. Fortunately for us, he eventually landed in Tennessee where he is a professor in MTSU's Jazz Studies program, and has a busy schedule teaching, performing, and recording. Aliquo has released Five solo CD's as a leader, and many more in collaboration with his peers, including 2015's "Too Marvelous For Words" with icon Beegie Adair, and "New Ties and Binds," a CD also released this year by the Don Aliquo - Clay Jenkins Quintet. At home in virtually all jazz styles, Don's technical brilliance is matched only by his taste and melodic sense. More at www.donaliquo.com....

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Another year of performances in the Jazz Cave is drawing to a close! The last Snap on 2&4 of 2015 will be on Friday, December 4 at 8PM - and will feature the return of a December tradition in the Jazz Cave: saxophonist Don Aliquo and pianist Lori Mechem.

Don Aliquo hails from Pittsburgh, where he grew up listening to and learning from the city's jazz legends. Following in the footsteps of his father, a well-respected jazz artist himself, Don spent his formative years performing with many of the regions greats. Fortunately for us, he eventually landed in Tennessee where he is a professor in MTSU's Jazz Studies program, and has a busy schedule teaching, performing, and recording. Aliquo has released Five solo CD's as a leader, and many more in collaboration with his peers, including 2015's "Too Marvelous For Words" with icon Beegie Adair, and "New Ties and Binds," a CD also released this year by the Don Aliquo - Clay Jenkins Quintet. At home in virtually all jazz styles, Don's technical brilliance is matched only by his taste and melodic sense. More at www.donaliquo.com.

Lori Mechem is, of course, one of the founders, and the Director of Programs and Education, of the Nashville Jazz Workshop. Besides mentoring hundreds of students and running one of the most unique and successful jazz programs in the country, she is also a gifted player and composer. With seven CD's to her credit as a leader, her influences range from Count Basie to Gene Harris to Antonio Carlos Jobim. Her most recent release is the beautiful duo CD with vocalist Sandra Dudley, "All Of My Life." More at lorimechemmusic.com.

What you get from pairing two such talents is an evening of jazz that promises to be exciting, unpredictable, and most of all swinging. Joining Don and Lori will be the other members of Lori's regular Quartet: Roger Spencer on bass, Chris Brown on drums, and Andy Reiss on guitar.

The show starts at 8pm. Doors open at 7:15.

Admission is $25 / $15 high school and college students with ID. Tickets will go on sale Monday, November 23rd at 10AM and will be available online on this page, by phone 24/7 at brown paper tickets (800-838-3006), or by phone during business hours at NJW (242-5299). A small convenience charge is added to online or 800-number purchases.

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