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TBone Paxton with the RJ Spangler Quintet at Urbanbeat Event Center
Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on February 8, 2020
Where
Urbanbeat Event Center
1213 Turner Street
Lansing, MI
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When
Fri, March 20, 2020
8:30 pm
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John Tbone Paxton Takes the Spotlight in Back in Your Own Backyard
Following in his fathers musical steps, Tbone is a true son of the jazz age. He has played with many of Detroits great band leaders. Fans of Detroit Music Factoryrecording group Planet D Nonet know Tbone as the bands featured singer and trombone soloist, but he has also shared stages with such prominent jazz, blues and R&B luminaries as Earl King, Sir Mack Rice, Pinetop Perkins and Eddie Palmieri.
The tracks on Back in Your Own Backyard are a selection of pre-WWII jazz and transitional rhythm and blues tunes. Theyre not the most famous tunes, but theyre some of the most moving. This isnt Gershwin or Cole Porter; these are tunes from the dark corners of The Great American Songbook, or as Tbone likes to call them, the non-standard standards....