June shows at Le Poisson Rouge, NY

UPCOMING EVENTS AT:
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
www.lepoissonrouge.com
info@lprnyc.com 212 796 0741
Ticket Hotline: 800 838 3006

Wednesday 6.18.08
JVC Jazz Festival and (Le) Poisson Rouge present:
Charlie Haden Quartet West
TWO SHOWS: 7pm & 9:30pm doors
$45 adv / $55 door
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a First-Come, Fully Seated event.

An acoustic bassist of extraordinary gifts, Charlie Haden's talents have been in constant demand by fellow artists Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Keith Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette, and Pat Metheny (with whom Haden shared a 1997 Grammy Award). Haden's love of world music has also led him to collaborations with Brazilian guitarist Egberto Gismonti, Argentinean bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi, and Portuguese guitar giant Carlos Paredes. Haden has explored diverse streams of American popular music with both his acclaimed Quartet West, as well as on such recent collections as 2002's inventive alliance with Michael Brecker. Haden was invited to establish the jazz studies program at California Institute of the Arts in 1982, and has earned countless honors from around the globe, including the Los Angeles Jazz Society prize, two Grammy Awards (and multiple nominations), myriad Down Beat Reader's and Critic's Poll prizes, a Guggenheim fellowship, four NEA grants for composition, France's Grand Prix Du Disque (Charles Cros) Award, Japan's SWING Journal Gold, Silver and Bronze awards, and the Montreal Jazz Festivals Miles Davis Award.
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Sunday 6.22.08, Sunday 6.29.08 AND Monday 6.30.08
Rickie Lee Jones In-Residence w/ Special Guests: JD Allen - 6.22
Edmar Castaneda - 6.30
7pm doors
$55 VIP seating / $45 General Admissionlimited $20 tickets with valid student ID at Box Office
only18+ or accompanied by legal guardian

'The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard', the new album by Rickie Lee Jones and her first for New West Records, is a beauty--soul-satisfying and sonically unique. What will certainly be most striking to some fans is that it rocks harder than any album the two-time Grammy Award winner has ever recorded. And yet, this music transcends all of its historical touchstones, taking the elements and creating something that sounds totally new--full of grace, soul and adventurous sonic textures. What's ultimately just as fascinating as the remarkable music, however, is that all 13 songs are inspired by the real words and ideas of one Jesus Christ. The recording began in a painter's loft on an abandoned industrial street in mid-L.A in the summer of '05. Lee Cantelon, who can best be described as a modern renaissance man,originally conceived the project as a lo-fi, low budget spoken word undertaking, and the initial plan was to recruit friends and associates--from punk icon Mike Watt to a homeless man he encountered every day--to do the talking. The project changed directions, though,when Rickie Lee showed up to record her part. Instead of reciting the text, she stunned everyone in the studio by improvising an entire song to a track she had never heard. "Nobody Knows My Name" is that first recording. So began the inspired musical and textural improvisations that would become 'The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard', an intuitive and beautiful collection.
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Thursday 6.19.08
JVC Jazz Festival and (Le) Poisson Rouge present:
Bill Frisell Trio
w/ Special Guests

THREE SHOWS: 6:30pm, 8:30pm & 10:30pm doors
$40 adv / $50 door
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a First-Come, Fully Seated event.

"Bill Frisell plays the guitar like Miles Davis played the trumpet: in the hands of such radical thinkers, their instruments simply become different animals. And, like Davis, Frisell loves to have a lot of legroom when he improvises--the space that terrifies others quickens his blood." --The New Yorker

"Bill Frisell is the Clark Kent of the electric guitar. Soft-spoken and self-effacing in conversation, he apparently breathes in lungfuls of raw fire when he straps on his (guitar)...His music is not what is typically called jazz, though it turns on improvisation; it's not rock'n roll; and it sure ain't that tired dinosaur called fusion. In one of the biggest leaps of imagination since the Yardbirds and Jimi Hendrix, Frisell coaxes and slams his hovering split-toned ax into shapes of things to come...But besides being a guitar genius, he's turned into a terrific songwriter. Like Monk, Frisell's harmonic and melodic ideas form a succinct, seamless mesh with outer sonic and rhythmic ideas about his ax." --Spin
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Friday 6.20.08
JVC Jazz Festival and (Le) Poisson Rouge present:
Carl Craig presents Tribe
feat. Marcus Belgrave, Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison
10pm doors
$25 adv / $35 door
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a Standing, General Admission event.

Carl Craig is one of the most important names in the second generation of Detroit techno producers and DJs. Carl approaches techno with inspiration from a wide range of musical genres, including jazz and soul. He has released many successful albums under a number of aliases, including BFC, Psyche, Paperclip People, 69, Designer Music and Innerzone Orchestra. As Innerzone Orchestra he released "Bug in The Bassbin" in 1992, a track that many regard as being a key influence in the then-evolving sound of drum and bass. Carl also created his own record label, "Planet E", which has released records by well known techno and house artists like Kevin Saunderson, Alton Miller and Moodymann. Craig served as artistic director for the widely successful Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000 and 2001.
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Saturday 6.21.08
JVC Jazz Festival and (Le) Poisson Rouge present:
Simone
KJ Denhert
11pm doors
$35 adv / $45 door
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a First-Come, Fully Seated, In-The-Round event.

A highly-praised live performer whose resume includes starring roles in such acclaimed Broadway musicals as Rent and Aida, Simone has developed an exciting and diverse repertoire of pop, soul, jazz, rock and funk, expressed in shows performed throughout the U.S. and in the UK, Ireland, Holland, Finland, Spain and France. With the 2008 release of her first full-length album, Simone On Simone (a big band tribute to her mother, Nina Simone, produced by famed jazz musician and arranger Bob Belden), music lovers worldwide discovered the vocal dynamism that live audiences have witnessed for over a decade. Blessed with a rich vocal range, an innate skill for lyrical interpretation and a soul-deep understanding of music as a means of healing, empowerment and celebration, Simone is very much her mother's daughter, and she is also most assuredly a multi-talented artist in her own right.
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Monday 6.23.08
JVC Jazz Festival and (Le) Poisson Rouge present:
Art D'Lugoff's "Salsa Meets Jazz"
feat. Poncho Sanchez
7:30pm doors

Seated: $45 adv / $55 door
Standing: $35 adv / $45 door
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian

More than anything else, Poncho Sanchez is a storyteller. And, as leader of the most popular Latin jazz group in the world today, it's his congas and seasoned ensemble that do the talking. Live in concert or on recordings, they spin vivacious tales that pay homage to the glories of a half-century tradition that was born when Afro-Cuban rhythms merged with bebop. One-on-one, the Chicano conguero is equally expressive, recounting in vivid detail the encounters, friendships, and passions that have contributed to his remarkable career as a bandleader and recording artist. Behind the choice of every song, album title and guest artist, there's a story Poncho Sanchez delights in telling.
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Tuesday 6.24.08
JVC Jazz Festival and (Le) Poisson Rouge present:
"Turntables, Samples and Jazz"
feat. Mocean Worker
DJ Logic Project Logic
Marco Benevento Trio

7:30pm doors
$25 adv / $30 door
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a Standing, General Admission event.

On the fifth album of his career, appropriately titled Cinco De MOWO!, Adam Dorn a.k.a. Mocean Worker has assembled the quintessential feel-good summer record. Shedding the expectations of the electronica scene with which he was often associated at the outset of his career, Dorn began to embrace his jazz and funk influences, while keeping the focus on crafting songs with undeniable hooks. Dorn also further explored sounds and flavors from different periods in music's history, re-conceptualizing them for the 21st century. Subtle improvisations emerge within tight arrangements, grooves appear inside of grooves, samples of samples are re-imagined and mingle comfortably among some of the world’s finest living, breathing jazz musicians. To tour behind the Cinco De MOWO!, Adam Dorn has transformed Mocean Worker into a red hot six piece funk machine, featuring some of New York City's most revered musicians. Assembled by Dorn to bring to life the "breakbeat jazz" stylings of the Mocean Worker studio albums, the group has already made a number of high profile performances, including Bumbershoot and Treasure Island festivals, opening slots for Amp Fiddler, Koop, Trombone Shorty and The Benevento-Russo Duo, and a residency at NYC underground tastemaker venue Nublu.

DJ Logic’s growing catalog of recordings is more likely to be filed under jazz and hip-hop than techno. This is no small accomplishment, and his popularity is as much a reflection of his musicianship as it is of his diplomacy, and his skill as an electronic-music ambassador. DJ Logic combines textures and weaves them into something completely new. He adds tabla beats to electrified blues riffs and salsa grooves. He attacks hard rock and punk with a jazz sensibility. This diversity of musical settings has become Logic's hallmark - his music is a recipe for jazz, with the ingredients as Bronx as hip-hop. His role as a producer keeps him at the top of his game, fulfilling countless requests for remixes and collaborations with jazz musicians like Graham Haynes, Don Byron, John Scofield, Joshua Redman and Christian McBride; jam bands like Medeski, Martin & Wood, the Allman Brothers and Phish; and hip-hop masterminds like Prince Paul, Ursula Rucker, and Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson from the Roots.
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Wednesday 6.25.08
JVC Jazz Festival and (Le) Poisson Rouge present:
Ledisi

7:30pm doors
$30 adv / $40 door
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a Standing, General Admission event.

From her name, to her music, to her mission, to the circuitous path that brought her to legendary Verve Records for her third album, Lost and Found, Ledisi (pronounced led-duh-see and adopted from the word that means "to bring forth" in the Yoruba language of Nigeria)is a galvanizing, all-natural wonder. This year, during a gala Songwriters' Hall of Fame ceremony, an A-list of show business veterans could hardly wait for Ledisi's rapturous rendition of "Unchained Melody" to end before lavishing her with thunderous applause. In 2006, before a rapt contingent of music business mavens at the Urban Network conference, Ledisi - wedged between a hip hop act and a tweety bird - brought an audience of astute professionals to its feet with an amazing a cappella performance of the Beatles' "Yesterday." Then there was the PBS televised tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, "We All Love Ella," where no less than Quincy Jones introduced her to the stage (adopting her as his goddaughter) where she proceeded to belt out a show-stealing version of "Blues in the Night" that she had previously recorded for the companion CD with the great Phil Ramone producing.
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Wednesday 6.25.08
Baby Dee
10pm doors
$15
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a First-Come, Fully Seated, In-The-Round event.
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Thursday 6.26.08 AND Friday 6.27.08
JVC Jazz Festival and (Le) Poisson Rouge present:
Soulive w/ Joshua Redman

7:30pm doors
$30 adv / $40 door
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a Standing, General Admission event.

Since forming Soulive in 1999, guitarist Eric Krasno, organist Neal Evans and drummer Alan Evans have developed a reputation as one of the most sought after instrumental soul-funk trios around, a hard-touring live act that’s thrown down everywhere from small rock clubs to opening arena shows for the Rolling Stones. Yet an interesting thing happened when the three veteran musicians hooked up to begin work on the follow-up to 2005’s critically acclaimed Break Out. Featuring appearances from soul-music luminaries like Chaka Khan, Ivan Neville and Corey Glover, Break Out found the trio pushing its music in a less improvised, more song-based direction. But the band craved bigger change. Soulive invited singer Toussaint—the versatile Boston-based vocalist of reggae outfit the China Band—to join the group on a permanent basis. After nearly a decade as a trio, Soulive is now a quartet. No Place Like Soul, Soulive’s sixth studio full-length, is the band’s sharpest, most mature songwriting to date, with thoughtful nods to funk, soul, rock, hip-hop, reggae and old-school R&B. Throughout the expansive, wide-ranging 13-track disc, Soulive navigate this new sonic terrain with the expert abilities they’ve honed by logging countless hours on stages across the world. Guys who know what they’re doing but retain an appetite for the unknown, they’ve managed to produce that rarest of musical accomplishments: a record that sounds classic and forward-thinking at the same time.

Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to have emerged from the 90s. The son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff, he was exposed at an early age to a variety of musics and instruments and began playing clarinet at age nine before switching to his primary instrument, the tenor saxophone. The early influences of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and his father, Dewey Redman, as well as The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, The Police and Led Zeppelin drew Joshua more deeply into music, but academics were always his first priority, and he never seriously considered becoming a professional musician. In 1991 Redman graduated from Harvard summa cum laude with a B.A. in Social Studies. He was accepted to Yale Law School, but deferred entrance for what he believed was only going to be one year. Redman accepted an invitation to move to Brooklyn with old friends (former students at the Berklee College of Music), and immediately found himself immersed in the New York jazz scene. In November of that year, five months after moving to New York, Redman was named the winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. Redman was quickly signed by Warner Bros. Records and issued his first, self-titled album in the spring of 1993, which earned Redman the first of two Grammy nominations.