Did you miss the show on 12/7? Check it out here!
Monday, December 7, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
"SOME GOOD JAZZ NEWS" This Sunday December 6
Please join George Kahn, Pat Kelley, David Hughes, Alex
Acuña and special guests for SOME GOOD JAZZ NEWS, a Virtual Video Premiere Party: This Sunday December 6.
To celebrate the release of his 10th album, DreamCatcher,
George has put together an hour of GOOD
JAZZ NEWS including the premiere of three new videos.
The hour-long live Internet broadcast will feature “The Essence of Music: DreamCatcher – Behind The Scenes”, a never before seen inside look at the creation of the studio album. In addition we have the premiere of “EVA”, a new music video from the album.
More Good Jazz News will also be shared by the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood CA, as well as representatives from PATH (People Assisting The Homeless). The show will feature a clip from PATH JAZZ NIGHT 2020, a recent jazz fundraiser featuring The Jazz & Blues Revue.
This FREE broadcast goes LIVE this Sunday 12/6 at 6:00 PM PT at https://youtu.be/UpjZbjp226c
Jazz stalwarts George
Kahn and Pat Kelley join forces
to create DreamCatcher, a new 12-song set. Their piano/guitar quartet
sound is so simpatico, it was only a matter of time before they would put out
an album. DreamCatcher brings us
standards ranging from Stardust
(1927) to Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
(1972), as well as a few new originals. As with all George Kahn albums, there are plenty of subtle tributes to the jazz
greats, like Dave Brubeck, The Modern
Jazz Quartet, Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly, and Bill Evans/Jim Hall.
DreamCatcher gets its first review
DAN MCCLENAGHAN really "got" the new DreamCatcher Album:
"The music of The Modern Jazz Quartet was often referred to as "chamber jazz," and that is what George Kahn has created here with Dreamcatcher."
Read the whole review here: https://bit.ly/GKQReview1
Monday, November 23, 2020
Interview with George Kahn: check it out!
Here is a wonderful interview, published in JazzBluesNews:
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Friday, June 19, 2020
The Universal Language of Jazz
George Kahn Quartet -
You And The Night And The Music
%%FirstName%%, George Kahn grew up in New Rochelle, NY. Pat Kelley is from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alex Acuña was born in Patavilca, Peru, a small city about 3 hours from the capital city of Lima. David Hughes was born in Säffle, Sweden.
These four individuals come from vastly different backgrounds, but they were all drawn to Los Angeles due to their desire to play music, and specifically due to their love of Jazz. Together, they are the George Kahn Quartet, bringing "classic" jazz into the 21st century.
Since moving to Los Angeles in 1976, George has had the pleasure to play with many amazing jazz musicians, and now during the last few years this quartet has been honing its craft in the jazz clubs of Los Angeles. With a successful Kickstarter campaign completed, it is now time to go back into the studio to finish their new album.
Here is the FOURTH single from the new album. "You and the Night and the Music" is a popular song composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. The song was debuted in the Broadway show "Revenge with Music". The show opened in 1934 and ran for about 5 months. The musical yielded two enduring hits and a profit, although it was an artistic failure. The music lives on - Enjoy!Sunday, April 12, 2020
Get Music AND Give To Those In Need
On March 1 we launched our Kickstarter for my 10th jazz album, DreamCatcher.
Little did we realize that, oh my, in just a few short weeks later, we’d be in the middle of a global pandemic.
Now 17 million Americans have filed for unemployment, and countless businesses are closed;
who knows when they’ll reopen, or if they’ll reopen
For our campaign we are only $250 away from reaching our goal,
But I’m not worried about that – I know we will hit our target and get the album done.
I’m more concerned about the countless musicians that have lost work, can’t make their rent, or put food on the table.
So between now and the end of the campaign on April 17, I’ll donate HALF of whatever is pledged to charity to help feed those in need.
If you pledge $20 for an album, I’ll donate $10 to THE CALIFORNIA JAZZ FOUNDATION, or to FEED CULVER, our local foodbank.
You can get more information below. Whatever amount you pledge, I’ll donate half of it to help others.
So think about it. If you have a chance, get some great jazz music, pledge $20 (or more), you’ll get an album and $10 will be
donated to a local charity to help out.
Thanks so much, really appreciate your help.
Great seeing you, and please, stay safe!
George Kahn
http://bit.ly/GeorgeKahnDreamCatcher
https://www.feedculver.org/
https://californiajazzfoundation.org/
Friday, March 6, 2020
New Single! George Kahn Quartet plays "I Feel Pretty"
There is a long history of jazz intersecting with Broadway musicals,
and one of the all-time great musicals is West Side Story (book by Stephen Sondheim and music by Leonard Bernstein). In the show, "I Feel Pretty" plays as an uptempo waltz as Maria dreams about her date night coming up that evening.
Over the years this tune has been re-worked by Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Andre Previn, Stan Kenton, Marion McPartland and Dave Grusin, just to name a few. It is now the first single from the upcoming George Kahn Quartet album. The video was just released this week!
This is my third time using Kickstarter
to launch a new recording. It is a great way to get you involved in the
project, so you can be part of the creation as well as receiving a copy
of the album when it is all done later this year!
The album features George on piano with Alex Acuña on drums, Pat Kelley on guitar and David Hughes on bass.
There
are a few "Early Bird Special" rewards available right now: a
two-for-one CD special, as well as a handful of tickets for the
"Kickstarter Kick-Off" House Party on March 14. Please take a couple of minutes and visit the Kickstarter, and pledge today! Thank you in advance for the help.
http://bit.ly/GeorgeKahnDreamCatcher
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