Grammy Nominated Pianist Kevin Bales and Friends featuring Special Guest Trombonist/Composer Andrae Murchison

Show Ticket $25 Dinner is required with all reservations. *6:30 PM SHOW - DINNER RESERVATIONS FROM 5:15 PM *9:00 PM SHOW - DINNER RESERVATIONS FROM 8:00 PM Kevin Bales - Piano Andrae Murchison - Trombone Billy Thornton - Bass Peter Miles - Drums Kevin has amassed a long list of awards and a reputation as one of the finest jazz pianists performing anywhere. In 1994, less than a decade into jazz, he won the American Pianist Association’s Jazz Piano Competition. In addition to nearly every important jazz venue in the South, he has performed in some of the most acclaimed clubs and festivals in America and around the world: the JVC Jazz Festival in New York, The Bakery in Los Angeles, The Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center jazz series, the Toronto and Edinburgh jazz festivals, and the Moscow Center for the Performing Arts. Bales met and performed with, and went on to record and tour with, a number of monumental artists including JAZZ Giants like Wynton Marsalis, Louie Bellson, Eddie Daniels, James Moody, Ben Tucker, Ira Sullivan, Sam Rivers, and Nat Adderley. He counts among his mentors bassist Ben Tucker, multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan, guitar legends Nathen Page and Jack Petersen, and the fiercely individual saxophonist Bunky Green. His meeting with Bunky Green led to five years of tours. His encounter with guitarist Nathen Page blossomed into 15 years of spot tours and four albums. And his work with trumpeter extraordinaire Marcus Printup has become a lifetime association that has included recordings on Blue Note/Capital records. Ten years touring and recording with vocal iconoclast Rene Marie culminated in a Grammy Nominated album. His most recent recording of music composed by Fred Rogers was selected as one of the top 10 albums of 2018 by Cadence Magazine and AllAboutJazz.com Known for his soulful tone; trombonist, baritone player, composer, and arranger Andrae Murchison is a native of Savannah, Georgia., where he first discovered music at church with his grandparents and mother. He composes and plays music from his heart and soul, and remains faithful and true to his spiritual foundation. He documents time through prayer, testimony, and revelation while conversing with the elders and honoring the ancestors. Focusing on delivering a message of grace and truth, his music navigates through the roots of negro spirituals, the body and soul of rhythm and blues, and the mindset of jazz improvisation, harmony, and rhythm. He earned his academia degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (BA), and Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music (MM) where he was mentored by SteveTurre and Robin Eubanks. After completing his formal studies, he began touring the world intensively while serving as trombonist with The Skatalites, Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya, and The Duke Ellington Orchestra for over a decade. He has also worked with Roy Hargrove,The Count Basie Orchestra, The Lionel Hampton Orchestra, The Trombone Summit with Slide Hampton and Curtis Fuller, Clark Terry, Ravi Coltrane, Monty Alexander, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jason Mraz, Postmodern Jukebox and many more.