Bring your axe. Very laid back – a great way to meet some of the Café’s performers & regulars in a very low-pressure environment. Novices & pros are welcome to come on down & join the jam. Try out new material or just participate in some sing-alongs.

Arthur Cruz Jazz
Keyboard artist, singer and songwriter Arthur Cruz is an interpreter of jazz standards and his own original songs – melodic tunes with pensive lyrics that blend jazz, rock and pop influences from Cole Porter to the Beatles to Sting.

A hopeful romantic, with a distinctive voice and style of song, Arthur Cruz sings of longing to be your valentine, believing in fairy tales of love and holding on to each other through the dark night of the soul.

Along with Englishman Mike Wood on bass, and the energetic Elvis Taylor on drums, these three musicians produce a dynamic, syncopated sound.

The trio is often joined by accomplished jazz instrumentalists (Ted McDermott, Jack Siegel, Nestor Zurieta) and vocalists (Loye Hawkins, Von Henry) for an exciting evening of live, improvised music.

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG
ARE Nancy Wagner (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Robert Hand (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Jamie Pflug (vocals, stand-up bass, guitar, banjo, dulcimer). They play a mix of original songs and their own acoustic versions of classics from the 60s and 70s folk-rock tradition. Featuring their distinctive three-part harmonies, WHP plays music that makes you feel good and think well.

Bring your axe. Very laid back – a great way to meet some of the Café’s performers & regulars in a very low-pressure environment. Novices & pros are welcome to come on down & join the jam. Try out new material or just participate in some sing-alongs.

ALL THAT JAZZ
Come join Loye and Ted for an evening listening pleasure. Smooth jazz standards and ballads with a mix of blues and pops. Intermissions and last set opened for those who want to jam with us…
Free Free Free

SCOTT BECKER

Drummer turned guitar player turned singer-songwriter. That is the path. When you listen to my music and experience my live performances you will see and feel all three phases. Lyrics are at the core of my music. Penning lyrics is a powerful flow of released emotion.

PANAMA RED

PANAMA RED, American musician, Songwriter, and Chronicler of the Human
Condition

“There are those, guitar in hand, who still prowl the seamy outskirts of
greatness. PANAMA RED is one of them… songs that remind you
of Townes, Billy Joe Shaver and Blaze Foley in turn.”
Dave Pilot, Outlaw Magazine

So, you ask yourself, who is this Panama Red? The answer is simple: an
original Texas Jewboy and a co-writer with Kinky Friedman, Billy Joe
Shaver and Ronny Elliott, Panama Red was a fixture in the 1970s Music Row
Outlaw movement in Nashville. His sphere of influence has grown lately to
include an annual stint on and in European stages and bars. His often
irreverent stage comments are interspersed with original, intelligent
songs which have been described as “honest’, “elegant’, and “soulful”, by
such luminaries as Kris Kristofferson, Billy Joe Shaver, and David Olney.
He currently lives “just far enough” outside of Nashville.

His songs have been recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, Billy Joe Shaver, Kinky
Friedman, Gamble Rogers, Felix Pappalardi, Bobby Bare, Mike Auldridge, the
French band Mary-Lou and a host of others.

He has appeared as a player and singer on more than 100 albums and CDs
recorded in Nashville, Los Angeles, New York, Miami , Seattle and Europe.
The Original Panama Red began life as Danny Finley, born in West Virginia
and the descendant, literal and musical, of Scots-Irish immigrants of the
early 1700s. He began his writing career in the US Army as a stringer for
Pacific Stars and Stripes. On his discharge he went to San
Francisco/Oakland where he acquired the “Panama Red” sobriquet. He
managed a coffeehouse, the Cafe I, on 10th Street in New York City. Later,
after a memorable life chapter involving the Beaux Arts Coffee House in
St. Petersburg, Florida, he was a founding member of the jazz fusion band
Bethlehem Asylum out of Coconut Grove, making two records for Ampex
Records. He relocated to Nashville in 1972 and became Billy Joe Shaver’s
guitar player and co-writer, later also filling the same functions for
Kinky and The Texas Jewboys.

He parted from the Jewboys in 1975 and began performing as The Legendary
Panama Red with his band Montezumas Revenge. From 1976 to 1979 he toured
in his 1947 Silversides GM road bus with his band and was one of the
first acts to appear at the Lone Star Cafe in New York City. He
performed at Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas, the Horseshoe
Tavern in Toronto and at the Old Mill in Mill Valley, California as well
as numerous other venues all around the U.S. and Canada.

His work and song writing brought him to the attention of the
producer/bassist Felix Pappalardi (Cream, Mountain), who subsequently
became his friend, mentor and employer. After Felix’s untimely death in
1982, Panama entered into a period of solitude and he became a carpenter.
He studied computer science at Miami Dade College. While a radiography
student at Northern New Mexico College, he edited portions of a radiologic
physics textbook (Radiologic Science for Technologists, Bushong, 4th
Edition). He graduated with a GPA of 3.89 and is a member of Phi Theta
Kappa. He also studied at the University of New Mexico, majoring in
journalism. In the 1990s, after living in San Francisco and working as
an xray tech, he again started playing music and lived and played in
Nevada City, CA and Seattle, ending up in Amsterdam, Netherlands for a
couple of years. On the road again and always a little off….

Since his return to music he has made two albums (HomeGrown and Choice
Buds), and has appeared in numerous small venues in North America,
interspersed with performances as a solo artist and guitarist in Norway,
Sweden, United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands. He continues to write
and perform and currently lives in Rockvale, Tennessee. He continues to
tour listening rooms and is working on multiple publishing projects,
including a music memoir and a whimsical book about cats…

He is credited by etymologist Barry Popik with the first use of the
rhyming phrase “Lost in Austin” the title of one of his country swing
songs. (1976).

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Bring your axe. Very laid back – a great way to meet some of the Café’s performers & regulars in a very low-pressure environment. Novices & pros are welcome to come on down & join the jam. Try out new material or just participate in some sing-alongs.

Bring an original song for critique on CD, or perform it live acoustically. Make sure to have 12 copies of your lyric sheet.

$5 for non-members/ FREE for members.

This workshop is affiliated with the Nashville Songwriters Association International. (nashvillesongwriters.com)

Joel Zoss (blues/folk)

Kelly Halloran (Americana – fiddle player)

Chris Monteleone (Americana)

Jack Shawde (guitarist)

Inez Barlatier (Folk/roots/jazzy)

Graham Wood Drout (Blues/New Orleans swampy)

Steve Minotti (Singer/Songwriter)

Diane Ward (Singer/Songwriter – rock)

J.P. Soars (blues)

Karen Feldner (Singer/Songwriter)

Albert Castiglia (Blues)

NIGHT BREEZE JAZZ
Mike Curtis has been performing and teaching in South Florida for over thirty years. In addition to performing throughout South Florida with Night Breeze Jazz, he performs regularly with the Jazzonian Heritage Jazz Band and is the Band Director at Temple Beth Emet in Cooper City,

Earle Eidenire started playing saxophone when he was 12, and began learning jazz at the University of Miami’s Summer Music Camp in 1975. In 1977 Earle attended Florida State University and studied with Patrick Meighan, and Bill Kennedy. Earle has performed with Bruce Saunders, Mike Gerber, Eddie Daniels, Phil Sampson, Tim Mayer and many others

Ezo Hernandez former Warner Bros recording artist ,has been performing in the South Florida area for over 35 years as a drummer, percussionist and singer/songwriter Ezo is currently performing with Night Breeze Jazz and is the drummer for the Temple Beth Emet band

Arthur Cruz Jazz
Keyboard artist, singer and songwriter Arthur Cruz is an interpreter of jazz standards and his own original songs – melodic tunes with pensive lyrics that blend jazz, rock and pop influences from Cole Porter to the Beatles to Sting.

A hopeful romantic, with a distinctive voice and style of song, Arthur Cruz sings of longing to be your valentine, believing in fairy tales of love and holding on to each other through the dark night of the soul.

Along with Englishman Mike Wood on bass, and the energetic Elvis Taylor on drums, these three musicians produce a dynamic, syncopated sound.

The trio is often joined by accomplished jazz instrumentalists (Ted McDermott, Jack Siegel, Nestor Zurieta) and vocalists (Loye Hawkins, Von Henry) for an exciting evening of live, improvised music.

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG
ARE Nancy Wagner (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Robert Hand (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Jamie Pflug (vocals, stand-up bass, guitar, banjo, dulcimer). They play a mix of original songs and their own acoustic versions of classics from the 60s and 70s folk-rock tradition. Featuring their distinctive three-part harmonies, WHP plays music that makes you feel good and think well.