Jazz

Honolulu, Hawaii

Check out the great story and listen to some tunes in the Advertiser's TGIF April 13, 2007 on Paisley and the Tempo Valley gang

Fort Union Dugout -- Fridays!

Honolulu's only

Jazz Club dedicated to jazz with live jazz six nights a week, closed Sunday

Food, Beverage and Music

1661 Kapiolani Boulevard

Just west of Atkinson

945-0800

* Check for surprise artists

Private parties, catering

The best jazz in Hawaii

Awesome, man!(click here) Jazz multi-instrumentalist musician, writer and composer Jeffery Smith will perform love ballads and jazz riffs Sunday night April 15, 2007 at the Jazz Minds Art and Cafe. Showtime is 7:30 P.M. This is a one night only performance that you don't want to miss.A true contemporary jazz artist, Smith's unique style of seductive strings and soft percussions are captivating even to the most discerning listener. You don't want to miss this one, a concert to remember. COST: $15.00 (in advance) $20.00 (at the door). Tickets available on April 2, 2007. Call: (808) 391-5950.

Starting this coming Wednesday, April 11, the Satomi Jazz Trio will be transformed to the Satomi Jazz Quartet. Joining the Tokyo pianist will be New York saxophonist Reggie Padilla and New York bassist Tory Millard. Padilla relocated to Honolulu about three months ago. He has performed at such venues as the Bitter End, CBGB’s, the Lion’s Den and been featured on a video on BET on Kyle Jason’s “Why am I so funky?” Millard is a gifted rhythm man whose credentials include Al Green, Chick Correa and John Patitucci. Abe Lagimas fills out the quartet on drums.

Restaurant workers click here!

Always, always... there is an extensive food menu. Great pupus or a late dinner.

Rie Furuse Star Bulletin story here

Randy Wheeler

Thursdays

Satomi Jazz Quartet and guests, Wednesdays

Last Sunday blast, April 29

Check it out, hot hip hop Saturdays, New York urban jazz

Gilbert Batangan Tuesday

simunye

Open Mic with seph1

Monday

Yes, add me to your email list!

April Schedule

Mondays, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Unscene Foundation Simunye' (Zulu) - "We are ONE" hosted by Seph1 and special guests, featuring Open Mic Hour for Poets, Emcees, & Singers, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Cafe 945-0800

Tuesday, April 3, Special guest performance direct from Tokyo, Rie Furuse, with the Satomi Jazz Trio with Jeremy Ward on bass and Shinya Yarimizo on drums, 9 p.m.-12 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Tuesdays, April 10,17,24 Gilbert Batangan Quartet with Abe Lagrimas on drums and xylophone and Jon Hawes on bass, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café 945-0800

Wednesday, April 4 Gilbert Batangan Quartet with Abe Lagrimas on drums and xylophone and Jon Hawes on bass, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café 945-0800

Wednesdays, April 11,18 Satomi Jazz Quartet featuring, direct from New York, Reggie Padilla on sax, 9 p.m.-12 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Wednesday, April 25 Amber Ricci with Bobbie Nishida and Dan Del Negro, 9 p.m.- 1 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Thursdays, April 5,12,19,26 Randy Wheeler Quartet, live groove underground New York jazz, 9 p.m. – 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Fridays, April 6,13,20,27 The Fort Union Dugout, with the Spacifics, Seph 1 and Risup, hip hop dance jazz, 9 p.m. DJ Fame then live to 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Cafe, 945-0800

Saturdays, April 7,14,21,28 Tempo Valley, New York urban jazz, 9:30 p.m.- 1:30 a.m.,,Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Sunday, April 15 Jeffrey Smith, jazz multi-

instrumentalist, writer, composer, one night

only 7:30 p.m.  $15 in advance by calling

 (808)391-5950, $20 at the door, Jazz Minds

Art & Cafe.  945-0800

Sunday, April 29 Selecta Zacharijah featuring Ras Mikey of Isouljahs, dance hall reggae, 9 p.m. – 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Surprise guests, Sinbad

Check it out. Your picture might be in Midweek. We have a little spread in their Feb. 9, 2007 issue. See it here: Spotted by Midweek!

Amber Ricci

Tuesdays

Abe Lagrimas

Rich Crandall

Tommy Lohmann and Lily Leung

Cheryl Bartlett

April 1, 2007

Cutting edge jungle music

Live, down tempo hip hop groove

I don’t know what you call it, but the new jazz is here at Jazz Minds. And our master of ceremonies Supreme is the tall, slender, good looking, cool Filipino American rap poet Seph 1. He’s the man. He’s cool. He’s on, around, in, about three nights a week at Jazz Minds.

Two of the nights are Live music. Big bands by today’s standards. Friday has two guitars, a bass, drums, a DJ and a singer, spoken sometimes sung, shaken not stirred. Saturday is a master of ceremonies, lead singer, cello, drums, guitar and bass.

Live music, not canned or stitched together DJ with a hip hop spoken word guy on the mike. Live.

With the kinds of rhythms that people like, the kind that scratches your soul, vibrates in your gut, thumps in your head. Urging, deep, ethereal rhythm.

And original songs.

“Some of the songs, we’ve done so many times, the audience knows the verses. They can cue us,” says Seph.

“It’s all about appreciation and diversity. The words are what bridge the thoughts. So many influences today are not positive. We’re trying to bring the positive back.

“It returns our voice. Lots of people, it started with the Blacks, then Latinos, now Asians, Polynesians, Pacific Islanders, we all relate to the minority experience.

“Hip hop was because people didn’t feel their modes of expression were being accepted,” says Seph.

Is there such a thing as a Hip Hop prodigy? Seph started with nursery rhymes and give his first performance as a poet in the second grade. A military brat, he first heard Hip Hop in Germany.

His first gig was at Havana Cabana. He’s played the Indigo, Pipeline, Wave Waikiki, Big City Diner and the All Star Café.

He’s opened in Honolulu for some of the very top Hip Hop bands like Pharcyde, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Ozo Matli and Common.

If you’re so old that you haven’t heard of these bands, you might wander down. The rhythms are seductive. The voices, spoken and crooned, are like the Fountain of Youth.

Mondays are Open Mic for singers, emcees or poets. It’s all the same, in a way. The theme is Simunye, a Zulu word that means “We are One.” Seph will be inviting friends and fellow artists. But anyone is invited to come on down and sign up. You can reach Seph at geminine23@gmail.com

The Friday band is called Fort Union Dugout with the Spacifics. It includes Kevin Hughes and Sean Ho on guitar, Eric Awa on bass, and Keli’i Wong on drums. Seph 1 is the lead singer. DJ Fame is on when the band is off.

The Saturday band is called Tempo Valley. It includes Eugene Carroll as producer, Paisley as the lead vocalist, Jeff James on drums, Kona on guitar, Mark Sakaue on bass, and Indai on cello. Cello? Yes, cello. DJ Azia is the turntable technician.

You can find music from these musicians at Myspace.com. Check out /thespacifics, /tempovalley, /sephone, /directdescendants and /siqrecords. They have a CD that should be out the first week of April. (Also check out tempovalley.com)

Pinnacle

Every mind we seek

Every time we speak

Every rhyme we design

From the point of a peak

Living the dream