BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//151.101.2.159//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://spotlightcharlieparker.org X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-2144@spotlightcharlieparker.org DTSTAMP:20240329T095946Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Spotlight Charlie Parker Event CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Join pianist Dan Sturdevant and vocalist Millie Edwards\nOn Sun day\, August 21st from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\nCelebrating their 6th Year at Th e Phoenix Jazz Club\n\n\n\n\nLiz Goodwin writing in the Pitch July 2022 is sue about The Phoenix brunch:\n“Millie Edwards with Dan Sturdevant…people come because they love music.”\n\n\n\nYou’ll like this popular Kansas City Sunday food and live music and scene.\n302 W 8th St. Kansas City\, MO 641 05 | ThePhoenixKC.com | 816-221-5299 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220821T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220821T140000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Sunday Jazz Brunch at The Phoenix (with Millie Edwards & Dan Sturde vant) @ The Phoenix URL:https://spotlightcharlieparker.org/event/millie-edwards-dan-sturdevant- 2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://spotlightcharlieparker.org/wp-content/up loads/2022/07/THE-PHOENIX-150x150.webp\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://spotl ightcharlieparker.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/THE-PHOENIX-300x200.webp\ ;300\;200\;1\,large\;https://spotlightcharlieparker.org/wp-content/uploads /2022/07/THE-PHOENIX.webp\;660\;440\; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nJoin pianist Dan Sturdevant and vocalist Millie Edwards
\nOn Sunday\, August 21st from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Celebrating their 6th Year at The Phoenix Jazz Club
\nLiz Goodwin writing in the Pitch July 2022 issue abo ut The Phoenix brunch:
\n“Millie Edwards with Dan Sturdevant…people come because they love music.”
\nYou’ll like this popular Kansas City Sunday food and live mus ic and scene.
\n302 W 8th St. Kansas City \, MO 64105 | ThePhoenixKC.com | 816-221-5299
\nSPOTLIGHT: CHARLIE PARKER EVE NT
\nIt Takes a Village – CD Release Performance featuri
ng Morgan Faw and The Flame
With a special
edition of the famous “Blue Monday Jam Session” co-hosted by Houston Smit
h and Morgan Faw. (*Special Guest Appearance by: Bobby Watson) @ The Blue
Room
Aug 22 @ 7:00 pm – 11:0
0 pm
First Set: “It Takes a Village” CD Release Con
cert Featuring: Morgan Faw and The Flame
Morgan Faw\, saxoph
one
Alonzo Demetrius\, trumpet
Miles Lennox\,
piano
Isaac Coyle\, bass
Christian Napoleon\,
drumset
Morgan Faw was raised musically in Kansas City. This album release performance is his first of many expressions of gratitude to the greater KC community of artists\, musicians\, teachers\, friends\, and family who helped shape and raise him.
\n\nRecorded in April 20
22\, his debut album\, “It Takes a Village” (ARC-8777)\,
Artists Recording Collective – ARC Records\, was completed on tw
o separate days. The recording features all original music by Faw collabor
ating with trumpeter
Will Mallard and one composition written by Pamela Watson.
“This is my first step and attempt in truly giving
back to those who taught me\,” says Faw. “I want to celebrate this album
with everyone who helped me. And to be able to release this project in The
Blue Room at 18th and Vine is a dream come true. The historic Jazz Distri
ct had been my musical home and arts family growing up. There is nowhere e
lse I would want to celebrate this achievement.”
The community is invited to this celebratory event and open jam s
ession to follow\, “It Takes a Village.”
With a special ed ition of the famous “Blue Monday Jam Session” co-hosted by Houston Smith a nd Morgan Faw.
\n\n< /HTML> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:18th and Vine\,Alonzo Demetrius\,Artists In Residence \,bass\,Blue Monday Jam Session\,Bobby Watson\,Christian Napoleon\,drumset \,Houston Smith\,Isaac Coyle\,It Takes a Village – CD Release Performance\ ,Kansas City\,Miles Lennox\,Morgan Faw\,piano\,Spotlight Charlie Parker\,T he Blue Room at the American Jazz Museum\,trumpet X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-jam-session-morgan- faw-the-flame-tickets-400802881207?aff=ebdsoporgprofile END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-2153@spotlightcharlieparker.org DTSTAMP:20240329T095946Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Spotlight Charlie Parker Event CONTACT:The Blue Room at the American Jazz Museum\; https://AmericanJazzMus eum.org DESCRIPTION:FRIDAY\, August 26 from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm is “Ode 2 Bird” sho wcasing the 2022 Spotlight: Charlie Parker “Artists in Residence” – Morgan Faw and Houston Smith\, and featuring Faw’s band “The Flame.” @ The Blue Room\nThe Blue Room at the American Jazz Museum\, Spotlight: Charlie Parke r\, and the Kansas City community welcome the return of natives\, Houston Smith\, and Morgan Faw\, (also known as “The Blue Room Babies”) with their “Ode 2 Bird” concert\, a Celebration of Charlie Parker and his Music and Legacy.\nThis performance will also feature the members of Faw’s working b and\, “The Flame.” \nConceived by the two alto saxophonists in 2020\, “Ode 2 Bird” came from their idea of “pushing the envelope open” through expan ding and raising the standard of music coming from a younger generation…a rather Hungry Generation. This concert also realizes the hopes of Charlie Parker himself\, who stated as much in a 1954 interview with his contempor ary fellow saxophonist\, Paul Desmond.\n\n“Ode 2 Bird” features special re nditions of compositions by Charlie Parker and Kansas City natives such as Bobby Watson along with the original works of Smith and Faw and more!\nPe rsonnel: \n\nMorgan Faw + Houston Smith – Alto Saxophones\nChristian Napol eon – Drums\nIsaac Coyle – Bass\nAlonzo Demetrius – Trumpet\nMiles Lennox – Piano\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ode-to-bird-ft-morgan-faw -houston-smith-tickets-394839795457?aff=ebdsoporgprofile. DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220826T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220826T220000 LOCATION:The Blue Room @ 1600 E 18th St\, Kansas City\, MO 64108 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:“Ode 2 Bird” featuring Houston Smith + Morgan Faw and The Flame. URL:https://spotlightcharlieparker.org/event/ode-2-bird-featuring-artists-i n-residence-morgan-faw-houston-smith/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://spotlightcharlieparker.org/wp-content/up loads/2022/04/Spotlight_CP_NOyear_Logo-1024x635-1-150x150.png\;150\;150\;1 \,medium\;https://spotlightcharlieparker.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Sp otlight_CP_NOyear_Logo-1024x635-1-300x186.png\;300\;186\;1\,large\;https:/ /spotlightcharlieparker.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Spotlight_CP_NOyear _Logo-1024x635-1.png\;1024\;635\; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nFRIDAY\, August 26 from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm is “Ode 2 Bird” showcasing the 2022 Spotlight: Charli e Parker “Artists in Residence” – Morgan Faw and Houston Smith\, and featu ring Faw’s band “The Flame.” @ The Blue Room
\nThe Blue Room at the American Jazz Museum\, Spotlight: Charlie Parker\, and the Kansas City com munity welcome the return of natives\, Houston Smith\, and Morgan Faw\, (a lso known as “The Blue Room Babies”) with their “Ode 2 Bird” concert\, a C elebration of Charlie Parker and his Music and Legacy.
\nThis perfor
mance will also feature the members of Faw’s working band\, “The Flame.”
Conceived by the two al to saxophonists in 2020\, “Ode 2 Bird” came from their idea of “pushing th e envelope open” through expanding and raising the standard of music comin g from a younger generation…a rather Hungry Generation. This concert also realizes the hopes of Charlie Parker himself\, who stated as much in a 195 4 interview with his contemporary fellow saxophonist\, Paul Desmond.
\n \n“Ode 2 Bird” features special renditions of composit ions by Charlie Parker and Kansas City natives such as Bobby Watson along with the original works of Smith and Faw and more!
\nPersonnel:
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-bird-b oot-camp-musical-salute-tickets-389977421967.
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