Savanna Jazz Presents
Salute to Black History Month
featuring
Pascal Bokar AfroJazz Ensemble with African Dance Revue
and
Executive Chef Pierre Thiam in Residence
From Cooking Channel “Iron Chef Competition”
February 13th & 14th 2015, 6:30pm dinner/7pm show
World Renowned Organist Doug Carn
February 22nd & 23rd 2015, 7pm show
Tickets: $15 Show
Valentines Special Feb 13 -14, Prix Fixe Dinner + Show: $49.95
Reserve your table now at: (415) 624-4549
About Pascal Bokar AfroJazz Ensemble
This AfroJazz ensemble with West African dancers and percussionists features a lively mix of guitar, piano, upright bass, drums and West African percussion. The Afro Jazz Ensemble performs original compositions based on West African rhythms mixed with a funky flair and Pascal Bokar's jazzy influence. Several of the musicians in the group have been working with Pascal for over a decade, and it shows. Sporting wild colors and traditional costuming, this lively group, along with its high-energy dancers, gets the audience off their feet and dancing at every show....
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Savanna Jazz Presents
Salute to Black History Month
featuring
Pascal Bokar AfroJazz Ensemble with African Dance Revue
and
Executive Chef Pierre Thiam in Residence
From Cooking Channel “Iron Chef Competition”
February 13th & 14th 2015, 6:30pm dinner/7pm show
World Renowned Organist Doug Carn
February 22nd & 23rd 2015, 7pm show
Tickets: $15 Show
Valentines Special Feb 13 -14, Prix Fixe Dinner + Show: $49.95
Reserve your table now at: (415) 624-4549
About Pascal Bokar AfroJazz Ensemble
This AfroJazz ensemble with West African dancers and percussionists features a lively mix of guitar, piano, upright bass, drums and West African percussion. The Afro Jazz Ensemble performs original compositions based on West African rhythms mixed with a funky flair and Pascal Bokar's jazzy influence. Several of the musicians in the group have been working with Pascal for over a decade, and it shows. Sporting wild colors and traditional costuming, this lively group, along with its high-energy dancers, gets the audience off their feet and dancing at every show.
http://pascalbokarthiam.com
About Executive Chef Pierre Thiam
Iron Chef Competitor Executive Chef Pierre Thiam will be in Residence at Savanna Jazz for Black History Month on February 12th-15th preparing delicious tropical menus. Known as Senegal's culinary ambassador, Pierre Thiam’s journey toward a food career began in the late eighties in New York City, when he left Senegal to pursue studies in Physics and Chemistry. After working in restaurants as diverse as Garvins and Jean Claude Bistro, he landed at Boom restaurant where he worked his way up to become Chef de Cuisine in 1995. Since 1997, Thiam started his catering business, with a mission to explore and combine food from his native West Africa to his contemporary NY restaurant experience. The result is an inventive cuisine that exudes surprising and exciting flavors.
Iron Chef competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHvvA7RmV2I
www.PierreThiamCatering.com
About Doug Carn
Born in New York City, raised in St. Augustine, Florida, with a career dating back to the 1960s, keyboard master Doug Carn has released eight solo albums and played alongside such artists as Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Horn, Melvin Van Peebles, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Nat Adderley, as well as appearing recently on albums by Cindy Blackman and Wallace Roney. His early recordings on the Black Jazz label combined “a looser feel with a political mood that emphasized peace, love, and independence,” according to the website jazzwax.com. Downbeat Magazine praised his composing and arranging as well as his playing, declaring that the “most attractive component of the group’s music” is Doug’s “deft orchestrations, which give it a much larger sound than its instrumentation would suggest.”
About Savanna Jazz
Savanna Jazz is an “attractive jazz club that opened on in the heart of SF’s Mission district in 2003, at the former site of the Voodoo Lounge. The subdued lighting, deep-brown walls and long, carved-wood bar conjure up the feel of storied jazz dives of yore. But the comfortable seating, welcoming atmosphere -- at once comfy and hip -- the clear sound and fine piano, even the West African dinner menu, all distinguish Savanna Jazz as a fresh, intriguing venue.”
More info at: http://www.savannajazz.com
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