The ebullient pairing of Dee Bell’s behind-the-beat swing vocals, and Brazilian jazz instructor Marcos Silva’s energized samba rhythms present a subtly new yin and yang celebratory music experience at the Sound Room Oakland on 6 February 2016 at 8pm.
Bell, formerly a 80s fixture on the Bay Area jazz scene, has offered only rare appearances these last several years, but returns to one of her favorite intimate rooms to perform favorites from her festive collaboration with composer/arranger Marcos Silva. This show will fill your heart, soul and appetite, as the food creations from the Sound Room’s Chef Karen are some of the best in the Bay Area.
In the 80s, Bell performed at Yoshi’s first Claremont store on a weekly basis when her Concord recordings with Stan Getz, Eddie Duran, and Tom Harrell were in current play. Scott Thompson on bass, and Phil Thompson on drums round out the current trio.
Bell’s last show at the Sound Room was a sellout. This is a rare opportunity to share the elation of the current Silva•Bell music merger. Preferred seating early 7pm entry tickets are $25. General 7:30pm seating tickets are $20.
ADVANCE TICKETS RECOMMENDED:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2487466
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Silva • Bell • Elation Reviews –(top 50 in jazz airplay):
Silva – Bell – Elation is a tantalizing album that will leave the listener mourning for the 20 years of great music missed out on while Dee Bell was recovering from the Sagacious Grace fiasco.
– Jack Goodman, Music Review, January 2014, blogcritics.org
“Silva* Bell * Elation is the meeting of two cultures through music. Bell’s beautiful and subtle voice floats above Silva’s Brazilian rhythms. The material covers a number of formats but all are infused with South American rhythms. The best example of a song’s transformation is Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” which replaces the guitar part with four saxophones. It emerges as a train roaring through a tunnel, which provides the foundation for Bell’s voice….Dee Bell’s career has been resurrected. Silva * Bell * Elation is a musical journey into a fusion sound that treads the delicate line between two distinct forms of jazz music.”
– David Bowling, CashBox, cashboxmusicreviews.wordpress.com
“Backed by Silva, steel drummer Andy Narell, guitarist Barry Finnerty, bassist Scott Thompson, drummer Phil Thompson and 17-year-old saxophonist Chris Sullivan, Bell sings in her trademark earthy voice with relaxed assurance, as if she'd never been away. And her creative selection of material — including unusual renditions of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon," Lennon and McCartney's "I Will," Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy" and Joni Mitchell's "Night in the City" — is inspired. With "Elation," Bell seamlessly picks up where she left off 25 years ago.”
– Paul Libertore, Marin Independent Journal, Press Play January 2014, marinij.com
“ Unlike the pretentious if not self indulgent use of "vibe" in the smooth jazz radio format, the lyrical mood embraces that bright and breezy Brazilian feel while imaginative arrangements highlight a truly engaging recording.”
– Brent Black, BopNJazz, Criticaljazz.com
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Bell, formerly a 80s fixture on the Bay Area jazz scene, has offered only rare appearances these last several years, but returns to one of her favorite intimate rooms to perform favorites from her festive collaboration with composer/arranger Marcos Silva. This show will fill your heart, soul and appetite, as the food creations from the Sound Room’s Chef Karen are some of the best in the Bay Area.
In the 80s, Bell performed at Yoshi’s first Claremont store on a weekly basis when her Concord recordings with Stan Getz, Eddie Duran, and Tom Harrell were in current play. Scott Thompson on bass, and Phil Thompson on drums round out the current trio.
Bell’s last show at the Sound Room was a sellout. This is a rare opportunity to share the elation of the current Silva•Bell music merger. Preferred seating early 7pm entry tickets are $25. General 7:30pm seating tickets are $20.
ADVANCE TICKETS RECOMMENDED:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2487466
***
Silva • Bell • Elation Reviews –(top 50 in jazz airplay):
Silva – Bell – Elation is a tantalizing album that will leave the listener mourning for the 20 years of great music missed out on while Dee Bell was recovering from the Sagacious Grace fiasco.
– Jack Goodman, Music Review, January 2014, blogcritics.org
“Silva* Bell * Elation is the meeting of two cultures through music. Bell’s beautiful and subtle voice floats above Silva’s Brazilian rhythms. The material covers a number of formats but all are infused with South American rhythms. The best example of a song’s transformation is Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” which replaces the guitar part with four saxophones. It emerges as a train roaring through a tunnel, which provides the foundation for Bell’s voice….Dee Bell’s career has been resurrected. Silva * Bell * Elation is a musical journey into a fusion sound that treads the delicate line between two distinct forms of jazz music.”
– David Bowling, CashBox, cashboxmusicreviews.wordpress.com
“Backed by Silva, steel drummer Andy Narell, guitarist Barry Finnerty, bassist Scott Thompson, drummer Phil Thompson and 17-year-old saxophonist Chris Sullivan, Bell sings in her trademark earthy voice with relaxed assurance, as if she'd never been away. And her creative selection of material — including unusual renditions of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon," Lennon and McCartney's "I Will," Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy" and Joni Mitchell's "Night in the City" — is inspired. With "Elation," Bell seamlessly picks up where she left off 25 years ago.”
– Paul Libertore, Marin Independent Journal, Press Play January 2014, marinij.com
“ Unlike the pretentious if not self indulgent use of "vibe" in the smooth jazz radio format, the lyrical mood embraces that bright and breezy Brazilian feel while imaginative arrangements highlight a truly engaging recording.”
– Brent Black, BopNJazz, Criticaljazz.com
The ebullient pairing of Dee Bell’s behind-the-beat swing vocals, and Brazilian jazz instructor Marcos Silva’s energized samba rhythms present a subtly new yin and yang celebratory music experience at the Sound Room Oakland on 6 February 2016 at 8pm.
Bell, formerly a 80s fixture on the Bay Area jazz scene, has offered only rare appearances these last several years, but returns to one of her favorite intimate rooms to perform favorites from her festive collaboration with composer/arranger Marcos Silva. This show will fill your heart, soul and appetite, as the food creations from the Sound Room’s Chef Karen are some of the best in the Bay Area.
In the 80s, Bell performed at Yoshi’s first Claremont store on a weekly basis when her Concord recordings with Stan Getz, Eddie Duran, and Tom Harrell were in current play. Scott Thompson on bass, and Phil Thompson on drums round out the current trio.
Bell’s last show at the Sound Room was a sellout. This is a rare opportunity to share the elation of the current Silva•Bell music merger. Preferred seating early 7pm entry tickets are $25. General 7:30pm seating tickets are $20.
ADVANCE TICKETS RECOMMENDED:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2487466
***
Silva • Bell • Elation Reviews –(top 50 in jazz airplay):
Silva – Bell – Elation is a tantalizing album that will leave the listener mourning for the 20 years of great music missed out on while Dee Bell was recovering from the Sagacious Grace fiasco.
– Jack Goodman, Music Review, January 2014, blogcritics.org
“Silva* Bell * Elation is the meeting of two cultures through music. Bell’s beautiful and subtle voice floats above Silva’s Brazilian rhythms. The material covers a number of formats but all are infused with South American rhythms. The best example of a song’s transformation is Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” which replaces the guitar part with four saxophones. It emerges as a train roaring through a tunnel, which provides the foundation for Bell’s voice….Dee Bell’s career has been resurrected. Silva * Bell * Elation is a musical journey into a fusion sound that treads the delicate line between two distinct forms of jazz music.”
– David Bowling, CashBox, cashboxmusicreviews.wordpress.com
“Backed by Silva, steel drummer Andy Narell, guitarist Barry Finnerty, bassist Scott Thompson, drummer Phil Thompson and 17-year-old saxophonist Chris Sullivan, Bell sings in her trademark earthy voice with relaxed assurance, as if she'd never been away. And her creative selection of material — including unusual renditions of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon," Lennon and McCartney's "I Will," Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy" and Joni Mitchell's "Night in the City" — is inspired. With "Elation," Bell seamlessly picks up where she left off 25 years ago.”
– Paul Libertore, Marin Independent Journal, Press Play January 2014, marinij.com
“ Unlike the pretentious if not self indulgent use of "vibe" in the smooth jazz radio format, the lyrical mood embraces that bright and breezy Brazilian feel while imaginative arrangements highlight a truly engaging recording.”
– Brent Black, BopNJazz, Criticaljazz.com
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Bell, formerly a 80s fixture on the Bay Area jazz scene, has offered only rare appearances these last several years, but returns to one of her favorite intimate rooms to perform favorites from her festive collaboration with composer/arranger Marcos Silva. This show will fill your heart, soul and appetite, as the food creations from the Sound Room’s Chef Karen are some of the best in the Bay Area.
In the 80s, Bell performed at Yoshi’s first Claremont store on a weekly basis when her Concord recordings with Stan Getz, Eddie Duran, and Tom Harrell were in current play. Scott Thompson on bass, and Phil Thompson on drums round out the current trio.
Bell’s last show at the Sound Room was a sellout. This is a rare opportunity to share the elation of the current Silva•Bell music merger. Preferred seating early 7pm entry tickets are $25. General 7:30pm seating tickets are $20.
ADVANCE TICKETS RECOMMENDED:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2487466
***
Silva • Bell • Elation Reviews –(top 50 in jazz airplay):
Silva – Bell – Elation is a tantalizing album that will leave the listener mourning for the 20 years of great music missed out on while Dee Bell was recovering from the Sagacious Grace fiasco.
– Jack Goodman, Music Review, January 2014, blogcritics.org
“Silva* Bell * Elation is the meeting of two cultures through music. Bell’s beautiful and subtle voice floats above Silva’s Brazilian rhythms. The material covers a number of formats but all are infused with South American rhythms. The best example of a song’s transformation is Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” which replaces the guitar part with four saxophones. It emerges as a train roaring through a tunnel, which provides the foundation for Bell’s voice….Dee Bell’s career has been resurrected. Silva * Bell * Elation is a musical journey into a fusion sound that treads the delicate line between two distinct forms of jazz music.”
– David Bowling, CashBox, cashboxmusicreviews.wordpress.com
“Backed by Silva, steel drummer Andy Narell, guitarist Barry Finnerty, bassist Scott Thompson, drummer Phil Thompson and 17-year-old saxophonist Chris Sullivan, Bell sings in her trademark earthy voice with relaxed assurance, as if she'd never been away. And her creative selection of material — including unusual renditions of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon," Lennon and McCartney's "I Will," Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy" and Joni Mitchell's "Night in the City" — is inspired. With "Elation," Bell seamlessly picks up where she left off 25 years ago.”
– Paul Libertore, Marin Independent Journal, Press Play January 2014, marinij.com
“ Unlike the pretentious if not self indulgent use of "vibe" in the smooth jazz radio format, the lyrical mood embraces that bright and breezy Brazilian feel while imaginative arrangements highlight a truly engaging recording.”
– Brent Black, BopNJazz, Criticaljazz.com
show less
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3022 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611
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