Michael Jones Jazz Trio with Azure McCall at Piedmont Center For The Arts

MICHAEL JONES is a bassist and band leader based in the Bay Area for over thirty years who plays acoustic music in the fine tradition of Jazz and Blues. After studying music at the University of Colorado, Michael migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1970s, where he has had the pleasure of playing with many icons including Al Tanner, Faye Carroll, Ed Kelley, Donald (Duck) Bailey, Pharoah Sanders, Deniece Perrier, Calvin Keyes, and Buddy Montgomery, to name a few.Michaels career as a sideman and bandleader includes serving as the Music Director for the Golden Gate Library Summer Concert and Jam Session series in Oakland, California, for the past twenty-three years....

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MICHAEL JONES is a bassist and band leader based in the Bay Area for over thirty years who plays acoustic music in the fine tradition of Jazz and Blues. After studying music at the University of Colorado, Michael migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1970s, where he has had the pleasure of playing with many icons including Al Tanner, Faye Carroll, Ed Kelley, Donald (Duck) Bailey, Pharoah Sanders, Deniece Perrier, Calvin Keyes, and Buddy Montgomery, to name a few.Michaels career as a sideman and bandleader includes serving as the Music Director for the Golden Gate Library Summer Concert and Jam Session series in Oakland, California, for the past twenty-three years.

MISS AZURE MCCALL
Innovative and effervescent, "Hawaiis first lady of jazz" Azure McCall is a multi-award winning vocalist. She is heir to the vocal tradition of Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, and Ella Fitzgerald. Her warmth and sense of humor fuel every interpretation. After releasing her first CD, Body and Soul, she was asked by the great bassist Ray Brown to be his vocalist on tour. Of course, she accepted, beginning an incredible jazz journey school was in! Soon after, Azure became the first singer to work with Freddie Hubbards band. Additional collaborators include Frank Morgan, Tennyson Stephens, Joe Lovano, Geoffrey Keezer, Curtis Lundy, Dizzy Gillespie, Houston Person, and many more.
In 2008, President Barack Obama asked her to perform at his pre-election party. Thats why he won, Azure says (smiling). Azure became the jazz diva for Celebrity and Royal Caribbean Cruises. She has traveled to more than 50 countries. When not out on tour, Azure is a resident at the California Jazz Conservatory and the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music, where she teaches vocal jazz master classes to youth and adults.

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