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Hire JAZZ AIN'T DEAD® for your next special event! Jazz Ain't Dead® consists of a Live BAND and DJ performed with Live DANCERS in a high-energy FLOOR SHOW. Sets are 15 minute, 30 minute, 45 minute, 60 minute, and 75 minutes. Entertainment can be planned up to three hours with band and dancers, and up to four hours with floor shows spread throughout the evening allowing your guests to get up out of their seats and dance with the band. Music styles include Funk and R&B, Funk Jazz Fusion, Jazz Standards, 20’s, 40’s, House, Acid Jazz, and Top 40 requests. Light “Background” Jazz and/or Cabaret sets also available for cocktail receptions. Rates start at $2500 minimum for appearance up to 60 minutes. Call for additional information on rates and set descriptions. Smaller packages with less cast members (such as piano, vocalist, and two dancers) also negotiable.
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Here’s a music video directed by Adam Hootnick which was nominated for a WEBBY Award! The song is called “Shoeshine” by the dope rock band, BLACK TAXI. I did the choreography. We had 17 male dancers and 21 blow-up dolls as partners!!!
Choreographer, Candice Michelle Franklin and The ladies of Jazz Ain't Dead paid a visit to the Adinkra House as guests of Mo Beasley. The ladies performed a choreographed number "Black Panties" as well as free-styled to the spoken word stylings of Mo Beasley.
CLICK HERE to LISTEN to our New Music Arrangements of our latest evening length production: Jazz Ain't Dead Celebrates the Legacy of George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess!
JAD Band:
Lafayette Harris (Keys/Jazz Piano), Axel Tosca (Keys), Travis Antoine (Trumpet), Rogerst Charles (Alto Sax), Kenneth Salters (Drums), Steve Rodriguez (Bass), Mansa Gory (Trombone), Jimmy Lopez (Congas), Gabrielle Jennings (Djembe), Chris Rob (Keys)
JAD Singers: Daphne Shawn, Kenyetta Coffee, Billy Davis
JAD DJ: Nyck Henry
JAD Dancers: Jerome Melsaun Warren, Careitha Davis, JoiLynn, Carmen Carriker, Candice Michelle Franklin, Chelsey Arce, Andrea Colabufo, Gierre Godley, Leah Tubbs, April Holloway, Ashley Chavonne McGill, Shawn Cruz, Gabriel Malo, Adisa Gooding-Henry, Tony Wright, Natonia Monet Harrison, Angel Chin, and Shelley McLaughlin
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Produced by Candice Franklin for DIP and Associates Jazz Ain't Dead® Performs it's 2011 season at
Joyce SoHo 155 Mercer Street
(Between Houston & Prince, New York City)
Live Musicians, Live Dancers, Live Singers, Live DJ Thursday - Sunday, March 24 - 27, 2011
Jazz Ain't Dead presents Nu-Jazz and classic Jazz standards re-imagined into House, Funk, Acid Jazz, and Soul. Featuring TWO HOT Programs plus FRESH new music arrangements of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" by Chris Rob, Donald Hayes, and others.
With Special Guest - Mo Beasley and Maurice Chestnut
Choreography and Music Development by Candice Michelle Franklin Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris Music Arrangements by Chris Rob, Lafayette Harris, Donald Hayes, & Marcus "Bellringer" Bell
Tickets $22 General/$15 Student & Senior
Special $5 Discount Offer To get a $5 Discount, click hereto subscribe to our Jazz Ain't Dead Mailing List and receive via email a special discount promo code to use online, on the phone, or to print to use in-person at the Joyce Box Office. Your email with promo code will be sent within one hour with verification and subsequent confirmation of valid email. Discount vouchers are for ADVANCE SALES ONLY!
To Purchase Tickets
Visit www.Joyce.org or Call JoyceCharge 212-242-0800
Jazz Ain't Dead® and Jazz Ain't Dead Presents is produced by Candice Michelle Franklin for DIP & Associates.
Jazz Ain't Dead
®, A Young Urban Jazz Music and Dance Collective
Showtimes:
JAZZ Ain't Dead® Joyce SoHo Season 2011 Set List Program Subject to Change
Thursday, March 24, 7:30pm
JAD Lounge (35 min. TRT): JAD Jam, My Funny Valentine, Billie Jean, Black Panties, Whatever Lola Wants, I Know You Know, Fall In, Portuguese Love -Intermission - Jazz Ain't Dead® Celebrates the Legacy of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (40 min. TRT): Sometime Thang, Summertime Burlesque, It Ain't Necessarily So, Red-Headed Woman, I Loves You, Porgy, Bess, You is My Woman Now, There's A Boat, My Man's Gone Now, Summertime Interlude, Summertime House
Friday, March 25, 7:30pm
Jazz Ain't Dead® Celebrates the Legacy of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess: Sometime Thang, Summertime Burlesque, It Ain't Necessarily So, Red-Headed Woman, I Got Plenty of Nuttin', I Loves You, Porgy, Bess, You is My Woman Now, There's A Boat, My Man's Gone Now, Summertime Interlude, Summertime House
Friday, March 25, 9:30pm
JAD Lounge: JAD Jam, My Funny Valentine, Since I've Been Loving You, Black Panties, Whatever Lola Wants, Billie Jean, I Know You Know, Fall In, Portuguese Love
Saturday, March 26, 7:30pm
JAD Lounge: JAD Jam, My Funny Valentine, Since I've Been Loving You, Black Panties, Whatever Lola Wants, Billie Jean, I Know You Know, Fall In, Portuguese Love
Saturday, March 26 9:30pm
Jazz Ain't Dead® Celebrates the Legacy of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess: Sometime Thang, Summertime Burlesque, It Ain't Necessarily So, Red-Headed Woman, I Got Plenty of Nuttin', I Loves You, Porgy, Bess, You is My Woman Now, There's A Boat, My Man's Gone Now, Summertime Interlude, Summertime House
Sunday, March 27, 6:00pm
JAD Lounge (35 min. TRT): JAD Jam, My Funny Valentine, Since I've Been Loving You, Black Panties, Whatever Lola Wants, Billie Jean, I Know You Know, Fall In, Portuguese Love -Intermission - Jazz Ain't Dead® Celebrates the Legacy of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (40 min. TRT): Sometime Thang, Summertime Burlesque, It Ain't Necessarily So, Red-Headed Woman, I Got Plenty of Nuttin', I Loves You, Porgy, Bess, You is My Woman Now, There's A Boat, My Man's Gone Now, Summertime Interlude, Summertime House
Thursday, March 24, 7:30pm Friday, March 25, 7:30pm/9:30pm Saturday, March 26, 7:30pm/9:30pm Sunday, March 27, 6:00pm
Music: It Ain't Necessarily So -Original Music by George Gershwin, New Music Arrangements by Chris Rob for Jazz Ain't Dead® A Woman is a Sometime Thang -Original Music by George Gershwin, New Music Arrangements by Chris Rob for Jazz Ain't Dead®
Summertime Burlesque -Original Music by George Gershwin, New Music Arrangements by Lenny Underwood for Jazz Ain't Dead®, Text and Spoken word performance by Mo Beasley.
Red-Headed Woman -Original music by George Gershwn, New Music Arrangements by Donald Hayes for Jazz Ain't Dead®
I Love's You Porgy --Original Music by George Gershwin, New Music Arrangements by Lafayette Harris for Jazz Ain't Dead®, Spoken Word performance by Natonia Monet with Text by Nihara Michelle
There's a Boat -Original Music by George Gershwin, in the style of Ray Charles, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris
My Man's Gone Now --Original Music by George Gershwin, New Music Arrangements by Chris Rob for Jazz Ain't Dead® Bess, You is My Woman Now -Original Music by George Gershwin, New Music Arrangement and live music direction by Lafayette Harris for Jazz Ain't Dead®
Summertime Interlude --Original Music by George Gershwin, New Music Arrangements by Lenny Underwood for Jazz Ain't Dead® Summertime House --Original Music by George Gershwin, New Music Arrangements by Lenny Underwood for Jazz Ain't Dead® JAD Jam -Arrangement and lyrics by Candice Michelle Franklin with Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris for Jazz Ain't Dead®
My Funny Valentine -Music arrangement by Chris Rob with Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris for Jazz Ain't Dead® and text and spoken word performance by Mo Beasley I Know You Know -Music by Esperanza Spalding, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris
Fall In -Music by Esperanza Spalding, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris Portuguese Love -Music by Teena Marie, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris Billie Jean -by Michael Jackson, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris Black Panties - Music "Jungle Fever" by The Chakachas, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Spoken Word Performance/Text by Mo Beasley Whatever Lola Wants -Music arrangement by Marcus "BellRinger" Bell/Bellringer Productions/InnerTemple Music for Jazz Ain't Dead® Since I've Been Loving You -Music by Led Zepplin, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris
For press inquiries, please contact the following:
Shanon Shaw, Press Contact media@JazzAintDead.com 212--426--1305 Hope to see you at Joyce SoHo!
These performances were made possible, in part, by a Harkness Space Grant from the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center and The Joyce Theater Foundation, which owns and operates Joyce SoHo.
Mo Beasley's UrbanErotika Juke Joint "Dem Dirty/Sexxxy Blues" September 18, 2010 @ Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
On September 18, 2010, JAD band member, Travis Antoine, and the Jazz Ain't Dead Dancers sat in to perform with Mo Beasley for UrbanErotika Juke Joint, "Dem Dirty Blues." With a cast of nine, we danced, we shimmied, and even Shani Borden Worrell sang the featured song with Travis on Trumpet and Miss Candice herself accompanying her with dance. Law & Order's principle actor, Mr. David Marantz, was on loan accompanying on guitar playing the blues while the dancers set the mood and the great Mo Beasley himself gave his tastiest rendition of his poem, "Come Into My Kitchen." It was a hot sexy evening we were glad to be a part of.... yes, those glasses were filled with Jack & Coke... holla! Enjoy the photos!
Dancers: Shani Borden Worrell, Candice Franklin, Danion Lewis, Carmen Carriker, Careitha Davis, Jerome Melsaun Warren, Demar Braxton, Cynthia Bowen Musicians: Travis Antoine (Trumpet) Other Artists: David Marantz (Blues Guitar), Mo Beasley (Spoken Word), Giorgio Chatelain (Acoustic Guitar) Photography by Abigail Ekue
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