I am playing at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles Dec 4,5,6 with Buster Williams, Bennie Maupin, and Jeff Tain Watts and hope you will come an hear this terrific band.

Would love to learn more from jazz fans. Hope to meet you or chat on tribe sometime.

WHO:
Bandleader JOHN BEASLEY assembles bassist Buster Williams and multi-reedist Bennie Maupin, two original members of Herbie Hancock’s Sextet (Mwandishi and Sextant), along with drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, who has performed on every Grammy Award winning jazz record by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis, to play music from Beasley’s 2009 GRAMMY considered latest CD Letter to Herbie, a tribute album to Herbie Hancock.

WHAT:
Beasley’s All-Star Jazz Circle brings the talent of Hancock’s creative and groundbreaking Sextet and the spirit of those indelible performances to Ronnie Scott’s with eclectic arrangements of Hancock’s tunes and a few of Beasley’s songs. New audiences will be sure to leave delighted by this series of concerts.

WHEN:
Thursday Dec 4 to Saturday Dec 5, 2008
2 shows: 8.00 and 9:30pm

WHERE:
The Jazz Bakery - 3233 Helms Ave., Los Angeles
Cost: $25 (Thur/Fri), $30 (Sat), $15 (students u/ 21 yrs)
Tickets: 310-271-9039 or www.jazzbakery.org/

Info: 310.200.8388, www.beasleymusic.com

Beasley, the onetime keyboardist for Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, reflects a variety of generational influences, incorporating the emphatic chordal clusters of Herbie Hancock, the rhythmic quirkiness of Monk and the lush intelligence of Art Tatum into a highly refined personal voice. – Los Angeles Times