Performances

Previous events

RAY BLUE QUARTET

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BLU @ The Pfister Hotel, 424 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202

New York saxophonist Ray Blue w/ Mark Davis - piano, Clay Schaub - bass & Dave Bayles -drums. "Ray Blue has a majestic presence...when playing, his sense of purpose is obvious... It's one thing to be a good composer, it's another to be a great performer. Ray Blue's got the whole package." (Jean Szlamowicz, Jazz Hot, Down Beat)

BENNY BENACK III

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BLU @ The Pfister Hotel, 424 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202

By age 28, trumpeter and singer Benny Benack III has proven to be a rare talent: not only a fiery trumpet player with a stirring command of the postbop trumpet vernacular in the vein of Kenny Dorham and Blue Mitchell, but also a singer with a sly, mature, naturally expressive delivery in the post-Sinatra mold, performing standards and his own astute songs with a thrilling sense of showmanship.

ALEXA TARANTINO

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BLU @ The Pfister Hotel, 424 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202

We are extremely excited about this special event next week in BLU @ The Pfister Hotel! Alexa Tarantino, a brilliant young and accomplished jazz saxophonist is joined by Milwaukee's gold standard jazz rhythm section with Mark Davis -piano, Jeff Hamann - bass, and Dave Bayles - drums, for a special evening of jazz @ BLU. Thanks to Jon Winkle and the UW-Milwaukee Music Dept. for working with us to make this concert possible.