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Curtis Stigers at Jazz Bakery's Movable Feast Series at Kirk Douglas Theatre
Courtesy of Redbeard Simmons | Posted on December 3, 2012
Where
Kirk Douglas Theatre
Jazz Bakery's Movable Feast Series
9820 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA
Map
(213) 628-2772
When
Sun, January 13, 2013
8pm
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Musicians
Curtis Stigers
saxophoneMatthew Fries
pianoJohn Sneider
trumpetCliff Schmitt
bassKeith Hall
drumsAbout
ONE SHOW ONLY! STARTS PROMPTLY AT 8PM!
Curtis Stigers, the early-90s pop star from Idaho who devoted himself to jazz when middle-age and the millennium arrived, ought to be the kind of comfort-zone artist that annoys the jazz hardcore – but he isn’t. Stigers sings lost-love songs, plays a little bluesy tenor sax, and winds up his sets with his old hit singles (like the 1992 soul-swinger You’re All That Matters to Me) that he knows a big percentage of his listeners have come to hear. But his respect for good lyrics, self-deprecating gags and shrewd use of his sidemen’s improv skills make him an artist of genuine class and laconic charm, if not a trailblazer. Stigers’s current tour promotes his new album Let’s Go Out Tonight – a programme he clearly regards as uncannily autobiographical, even though it’s his first in almost a decade without a single self-penned song....