If you are enamored with "straight ahead" Jazz - e.g., the be-bop, cool jazz, hard bop genres' - you should know that Detroit has probably had more great Jazz players associated with it than any other city. The talent here is so deep, even now, that it will blow you away.
Try Bakers Keyboard Lounge on Livernois south of 8 Mile almost any night and you will be glad you did. History of Bakers is deep. The oldest surviving Jazz club in the world. Older than all those places on 52nd Street in NYC. Every great player has been there. www.bakerskeyboardlounge.com. As they say on the website: "Bakers Keyboard Lounge, the world’s oldest jazz club. During our 72 year history, almost every jazz musician of national importance has played our bandstand".
Now, the players are local. They have always been diverse but an excellent example is a trumpet player of enormous talent ("great chops") who happens to be an Orthodox tribe member. Literally, I saw a set where his tsi tsis were literally out of the pants and swinging like a mother... Okay, not that word, but, ah, maybe a monkey on a vine. That's better.
Try Bakers Keyboard Lounge on Livernois south of 8 Mile almost any night and you will be glad you did. History of Bakers is deep. The oldest surviving Jazz club in the world. Older than all those places on 52nd Street in NYC. Every great player has been there. www.bakerskeyboardlounge.com. As they say on the website: "Bakers Keyboard Lounge, the world’s oldest jazz club. During our 72 year history, almost every jazz musician of national importance has played our bandstand".
Now, the players are local. They have always been diverse but an excellent example is a trumpet player of enormous talent ("great chops") who happens to be an Orthodox tribe member. Literally, I saw a set where his tsi tsis were literally out of the pants and swinging like a mother... Okay, not that word, but, ah, maybe a monkey on a vine. That's better.
