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TUESDAY | October 9, 2018 | 7:30pm | Music Night at Bogies | CAB w/ BUNNY BRUNEL (Cover $20)

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cab-with-bunny-brunel-tickets-50841715941

There is a fine line between genius and insanity.  This musical GENIUS who puts out INSANE music executes pulsating rhythms on his bass with scary accuracy, flawless precision, and hauntingly beautiful melodies. Bunny Brunel is the jazz fusion version of the “closest thing to heaven” you’ll ever get with a talent that is simply . . . other-worldly!

A seed is planted—a movement is created; and behind that movement, the greatest minds exist.  When it comes to the bass, Bunny Brunel is the gardener and one of those great minds.  From defining his signature style on fretless, upright, and electric basses, to authoring numerous instructional books on bass technique and theory, there is no end to Brunel’s musical mind.  But how many legendary virtuoso instrumentalists do you know who not only design their instruments, but build them, too?  Having designed for Carvin for over 25 years, Brunel is now a designer for ESP Guitars.  He also created and custom built the Rolls Royce of basses—the Bunny Brunel Electric Upright Bass(BBEUB). As if that weren’t enough, Bunny has composed music with lush arrangements on his releases from the start of his career on his first album Touch to his latest, titled Bass Ball; and somewhere in the middle, his Band CAB earned a Grammy nomination for CAB 2 – Best Contemporary Jazz Album; and early in Brunel’s career as a member of Chick Corea’s Band, Secret Agent received a Grammy nomination. The endlessly talented Bunny Brunel also scores films, and collaborated and performed the theme for Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning masterpiece The Unforgiven.  But most importantly, Bunny is known around the world as one of the four great bassists who started the jazz-fusion bass movement along with Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, and Jeff Berlin.

Born in the South of France, Bunny Brunel’s first instrument was the piano, and because his mother was a huge jazz fan, he was exposed to jazz at a very young age. He was able to play jazz chords by ear.

“While I was attending a specialized college for hotels, I found a classical guitar where the headstock was broken. I had it remade by a cabinetmaker friend of mine and played guitar in a band. I was about 15 years old at the time. I knew about 3 or 4 chords and that’s how it started. I was asked to rent a bass for a new bass player who never showed up for rehearsal and ended up playing the bass. That was the day I became a bass player—and I loved it!” —Bunny Brunel

Bunny attended the Classical Conservatory in Nice, France, to learn bowing technique, but was mostly a self-taught bass player who drew his influences from Sam Jones, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Eddy Gomez, Miroslav Vitous, and Stanley Clarke.

In his early 20s, while playing at the world famous Ronnie Scott’s Club in London with Tania Maria, Yes/Moody Blues keyboardist Patrick Moraz introduced Bunny to fusion keyboardist Chick Corea. Once Chick heard Bunny play, a few months later he hired him to record on his album Secret Agent. Bunny played with Chick Corea for almost a decade, and has since played with Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Jarreau, Stevie Wonder, Ziggy Marley, Gloria Estefan, Jack De Johnette, Natalie Cole, Stanley Clarke, Milt Jackson, Steve Grossman, and more. Bunny Brunel is a rare musician. He makes his bass sing.

Patrick Moraz of Yes and Moody Blues when he first met Bunny Brunel back in 1978:
“There are really only four real [fusion] bass players: Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Berlin, Stanley Clarke, and you, Bunny Brunel!”

Taking an active interest in helping bass players, Brunel regularly gives seminars on his unique approach to the instrument. He has written several books available through Mel Bay Publications, Hal Leonard Publications, as well as instruction DVDs. He performs regularly, and is part of a new group called iNow, a trio with Patrick Moraz (Yes, Moody Blues) and Virgil Donati.

A melodic writer, Bunny Brunel always found it necessary to create memorable melodic overtones fused with modal changes and dexterous playing. Hearing his music transcends most recordings from the fusion genre simply because even after listening and being blown away by the execution and profound changes—as complex as his music is—you walk away humming his melodies. But you are cheating yourself if you haven’t seen him perform. Experiencing Bunny Brunel live in concert is transformative as well as spiritual. Nothing compares to the auditory sensory fulfillment when you drink in a performance by this masterful bass sorcerer!

TUESDAY | October 16, 2018 | 7:30pm | Music Night at Bogies | Lola Haag & The Back-Beats (no cover)

Lola & The Back-Beats will be in town for One Night Only.

Two Years in a row! Voted the 2016 & the 2015 Best Jazz Vocalist in Ventura County by Ventura Music Awards Society! She just received the honor to be nominated again for a third year as

“Best Jazz Vocalist” and as “Best Female Entertainer” for 2018!

Entertainer Lola Haag is a Big Chair Records Recording artist with seven best selling Jazz Albums to her credit. Her recordings have received worldwide acclaim and are being played in over 75 countries today. She has recorded over 100 songs for her seven albums.

Jazz critic William Grother wrote in his review of her album “Here I Go Again” ” Her voice teases out your inner ear the murmur of a nightclub crowd, tickles your nose with the faint odor of smoke and whisky, and your foot begins to tap with a mind of its own.” He also wrote “Lola manages to shift moods, tempos and depth here with a practiced polish that bespeaks a dedication to her art. The breath of her music and soulful sound of her voice make her albums a treasure for any Jazz music collection”.

Lola & The Back Beats recently headlined at many famous Jazz Clubs from New York to Los Angeles.

Terrence Love, the owner of world famous Steamers Jazz Club, wrote Lola Haag is “An Incredible Jazz Vocalist!”. Locally she has headlined in the beautiful Bogie’s Showroom in Westlake Village to packed houses. She returns to Bogie’s for a forth engagement on August 8, 2017

She is in demand for Corporate Events like Dryers Ice Cream Co., the Tower Club and Jazz Festivals. In addition Lola & The Back-Beats perform regularly at Clubs all over Southern California. She can draw from her library of over 500 Blues, Pop and Jazz arrangements to please any audience. She understands the art of entertaining like the great saloon singers of the past. Her live shows feature a blend of Blues, Jazz, Contemporary and timeless classics. She can be sultry, romantic, sassy or classy. Critics have called her “first-rate…her show is reminiscent of the classy days of the nightclubs of a bygone era”. (LA Times)

Lola is a musical stylist. Each song she performs is bent and molded into something unique while still maintain the core of the original melody.

“Take a seat, order your martini, and dig Lola's vibe”. (Jazz Club Magazine)

TUESDAY | October 23, 2018 | 7:30pm | Music Night at Bogies | trioKAIT (no cover)

KAIT DUNTON is a Los Angeles based composer & pianist with an unconventional approach to composition and to the piano trio, best expressed by her genre-pushing super group, trioKAIT. Together with bassist Cooper Appelt and drummer Jake Reed, trioKAIT brings a modern, tight and groovy sound to the piano trio format, shuffling wide-ranging influences and Kait’s innovative compositions into a refreshingly modern take on instrumental music that is as uncategorizable as it is infectious. Fused together via Kait’s music, the trio melds into a laser-focused single entity with a dynamic group sound.

Kait has produced and released four albums of original compositions, with a fifth featuring her inventive arranging style. DownBeat awarded 4.5 stars to Kait’s latest album, trioKAIT 2, writing that “Dunton brings a Technicolor sensibility to everything she touches.” In 2017, trioKAIT Casual reached #5 on the Jazz Week radio charts, while her debut album, Real & Imagined, continues to draw fans, now with over 1.5 million streams on Spotify. Her third record, trioKAIT, made the Huffington Post’s list of “The Best Jazz for 2015” while her second album, Mountain Suite, features master interpreters Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, John Daversa and Darek Oles. Prior to this, Kait was a member of Snarky Puppy during their formative years in Texas, appearing on their sophomore record, The World is Getting Smaller.

Kait has been recognized on Jazz.com as one of “10 Future Female Jazz Stars” and described by critic Don Heckman as “an extraordinary talent on the rise” with “impressive compositional skills”. Something Else! Reviews writes that “[Kait] throws cold water on any notion that the piano/bass/drums format is an exhausted one. It’s very much alive and well, and here is all the proof you need…” In addition to composition and performance, Kait is also an active educator, heading the Piano Performance program at the Los Angeles College of Music (LACM) in Pasadena, California.

"A confluence of the classic piano trio, and space-aged funk and fusion." - DownBeat

 “Thrilling and original... a new kind of jazz trio demonstrates that 21st century jazz can be subtle and soulful at the same time.” - PopMatters

• Links to the new album, trioKAIT 2: Apple Music | Spotify | Streaming on KaitDunton.com

• Other Links: Kait Dunton on Spotify, Apple Music, KaitDunton.com, YouTube Channel

• Video Links: JAZZIZ Magazine video premiere | Vic Firth Feature on YouTube

• More Info: STAR REVIEW; ONE SHEET INFO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me4nF92SBR8&feature=youtu.be

TUESDAY | October 30, 2018 | 7pm | Music Night at Bogies | Boyd Cannon Big Band with Los Cerritos Middle School Band (no cover)