Documentary
Rod Lott
Don't tell anyone, but in my first year of high school, I owned a couple of Simply Red cassettes, purchased from Sound Warehouse. If you clicked on the link to read this review, it's likely you did, too.
Wednesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: jazz
Simply Red: Live at Montreux 2003
No longer holding back the years.
Documentary
Rod Lott
Don't tell anyone, but in my first year of high school, I owned a couple of Simply Red cassettes, purchased from Sound Warehouse. If you clicked on the link to read this review, it's likely you did, too.
Jazz hands
Pianist Bert Dalton brings the heat to the 29th incarnation of Norman’s Jazz in June with his Brazilian-flavored project.
Wrembel it
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Fresh from scoring the theme for Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning Midnight in Paris, French jazz guitarist Stéphane Wrembel performs a free show 8 p.m. Tuesday at the band shell of Myriad Botanical Gardens in downtown OKC. Wrembel’s touring in support of his latest album, Origins, which came out in May. Oklahoma’s own Kyle Dillingham opens. Admission is free. Call 278-8944 or visit alliedartsokc.com.
Tuesday
The (off)beat goes on
OKC offers many music venues off the beaten path.
Music
Phil Bacharach
Randy Cassimus has spent years cranking out rock ’n’ roll in bars and clubs throughout Oklahoma City. He’s used to playing over the clink of beer glasses and shouts of liquored-up patrons when he plays with local band The Hi-Def Howlers. So he wasn’t quite sure what to expect when he booked an acoustic gig at a bookstore.
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Update: This event has been postponed due to illness.
Tenor saxophonist Denny Morouse blows into the UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth in Edmond, for a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday. The man has been Stevie Wonder’s bandleader, the musical arranger for the Saturday Night Live band, and performed on the soundtracks to Animal House, Fame and Flashdance. In other words, it’s safe to say you’ve heard him. Tickets are $12. Call 359-7989 or visit vinerygroup.com.
Thursday
Matt Stansberry & the Romance — Let’s Brighten It Up
Pop
Joshua Boydston
The cover of the seven-song EP Let’s Brighten It Up is a telling one. Oklahoma City’s Matt Stansberry is midbounce, dressed in a tailored suit and black-rimmed glasses à la Elvis Costello or Buddy Holly, clutching what looks like a bright-red Les Paul guitar. Stansberry is true to form, as polished and accomplished as ever, and his new band, The Romance, adds a little pep to his step.
Jazz it
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It’ll be easy to get a taste of The Big Easy when the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band plays at 3 p.m. Sunday at Oklahoma City University’s Bass School of Music, 2501 N. Blackwelder. Dubbed “the past and promise of American music” by Rolling Stone magazine, the act is on its 50th-anniversary tour. Tickets are $10. Call 208-5227 or visit okcu.edu/tickets.
Sunday
Dillard’s exclusive
The song 'So Long' marks the start of a hopefully lengthy recording career for OKC jazz-pop songstress Tara Dillard.
Music
Susannah Waite
Tara Dillard with Amy Downes and Molly Blanton
9:30 p.m. Saturday
Picasso Cafe
3009 Paseo
602-2002
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Cuban jazz legend Arturo Sandoval has six Grammys to his name and has played with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Alicia Keys. You have one chance to catch the Havana-born trumpet master in concert, and that’s 7:30 pm. Sunday at Rose State College’s Performing Arts Theatre, 6420 S.E. 15th in Midwest City. Tickets are $25. Call 297-2264 or visit myticketoffice.com.
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