Jazz

Honolulu, Hawaii

Saturdays, Paisley with Tempo Valley and Indai on cello.

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) Here's an update on the haps for Fridays at Jazz Minds. The name of the night is The DugOut Lounge with DJ Jesse James Fame. The name of the band on fridays is Short Notice featuring Kevin Hughes on Guitar, Russ Lundgren on drums, Geoff Redd on bass, Adam Wren on vibraphone, and Alvin Thomas on the sax. The band plays new funky interpretations of Jazz standards that can be described as a sort of Groove Jazz with Hip Hop elements. DJ Fame plays a variety of Rare Grooves along with sampled Soul, Funk, and R&B breaks. Also featuring special guest Poets, MCees, and Djays.

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

Fort Union Dugout -- Fridays!

simunye

Open Mic with seph1

Monday

Randy Wheeler

Thursdays

Satomi Jazz Quartet and guests, Wednesdays

Last Sunday blast, May 27

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

Gilbert Batangan Tuesdays

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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June Schedule

Private Parties Welcome

Mondays, June 4,11,18,25 Monday Night Jazz Arts Collaborative, Jazz Minds, 9 p.m. – 2 a.m., jazz grooving singer contest Jazz Minds Art & Cafe 945-0800

Tuesdays, June 5,12,19,26 Gilbert Batangan Quartet with Abe Lagrimas on drums, Aaron Hill on sax and Jon Hawes on bass, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m., straight ahead jazz, Jazz Minds Art & Café 945-0800

Wednesdays, June 6, 13, 20 Satomi Jazz Quartet with Reggie Padilla sax, Troy Millard bass and Shinya Yarimizo drums, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., traditional jazz, Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Wednesday, June 27 Amber Ricci with Bobbie Nishida and Dan Del Negro, 9 p.m.- 1 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Thursdays, June 7, 14, 21, 28 Randy Wheeler Quartet, live groove underground New York jazz, 9 p.m. – 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Fridays, June 1, 8, 15, The Fort Union Dugout All-Stars with DJ Fame, hip hop dance jazz six-piece live band with singer, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Cafe, 945-0800

Fridays, June 22,29 Short Notice with Kevin Hughes guitar, Russ Lundgren drums, Geoff Redd bass, Adam Wren vibraphone and Alvin Thomas sax plus DJ Fame, hip hop dance jazz six-piece live band with singer, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Cafe, 945-0800

Friday, June 8, 22 Deep Pocket, jazz funk, special 6:30-8:30 p.m., with Ikaika Tecson keys, Gary Hashimoto drums, Nathan Ng bass and David Madus, Aaron Hill sax, Kyle Santos trumpet, Hans Nielson vocals, Jazz Minds Art & Cafe, 945-0800.

Saturdays, June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Tempo Valley, New York urban jazz, 9:30 p.m.- 1:30 a.m.,,Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Sunday, June 24 Selecta Zacharijah with Ras Mikey of Isouljahs, dance hall reggae, 9 p.m. – 1:30 a.m., Jazz Minds Art & Café. 945-0800

Surprise guests, Sinbad

Rie Furuse Star Bulletin story here

Amber Ricci

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