Jazz

Honolulu, Hawaii

Reggie Padilla and the Deadbeats, Wednesdays

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) It's official. Jazz Minds is really about young musicians. It's a dedication to the new generation of improv artists.

Monday features two different bands. The late collaboration saw three horns, a keyboard, bass and drums. The beat is contemporary and driving.

Tuesday is the only night with traditional jazz, and it's more beebop than swing.

Wednesday in August features four different bands. Grooving, hip hopping, improvising new sounds.;

Thursday is the groove beat of our own Randy Wheeler.

Friday is jazz funk by the Lundgrens.

We have a special treat August with David Leshare Watson. Watson comes from the Bay area and is a well known jazz figure.

Saturday is Tempo Valley. Need we say more?

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

Funk... groove...

David Leshare Watson, Friday Aug. 24

Saturdays, Indai with Tempo Valley and Indai on cello.

Randy Wheeler, Thursdays

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

Gilbert Batangan Tuesdays

Paisley

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

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August Schedule

Jazz Minds Art & Café

Owner Young Yi invites non-profits, Sundays, fundraisers, private parties, wine tasting

Mondays, August 6,13,20,27 Monday Night Jazz Arts Collaborative, Jazz Minds, 9 p.m. – 2 a.m. Jazz Minds Art & Cafe 945-0800

Tuesdays, August 7,14,21,28 Gilbert Batangan Quartet with Abe Lagrimas on drums, Aaron Hill on sax and Jon Hawes on bass, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café 945-0800

Wednesdays, August 1,15, The Deadbeats with Reggie Padilla sax, Wendell Hayes, trombone, Harumi the Hymn and K-Love, vocals, uptempo jazz, 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Wednesday, August 8, Universal Beat with Jerome and Chuck James, new jazz, 9 p.m. – 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Wednesday, August 22 Amber Ricci Quartet, jazz, 9 p.m. – 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café 945-0800

Wednesday, August 29, Maacho & Cool Connection, jazz, 9 p.m. – 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café 945-0800

Thursdays, August 2,9,16,23,30 Randy Wheeler Quartet, live groove underground New York jazz, 9 p.m. – 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Fridays, August 3,10,17,31 Lundgren Jazz Funk, Adam Wren, vibraphone, John Lundgren, sax, flute, Tony Krause, bass, Veronica Lopez, congas, Russ Lundgren, drums, 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Cafe, 945-0800

Friday, August 24, David Leshare Watson. Quartet, jazz vocalist with Jeanette Trevias piano, Lou Benarito bass and Darryl Pellegrini drums. 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café, 945-0800

Saturdays, August 4,11,18,25 Tempo Valley, New York urban jazz, 9:30 p.m.- 1:30 a.m.,,Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Danny Kim of Lost with Young and Danny

Surprise guest, Sinbad

Amber Ricci

Jason Scott Lee with Young Yi and Nancy Do

Rich Crandall

Tommy Lohmann and Lily Leung

Cheryl Bartlett

Rie Furuse Star Bulletin story here

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