Dave Stryker Quartet featuring Mike Lee, Bobby Floyd

When:
October 5, 2018 @ 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
2018-10-05T20:30:00-04:00
2018-10-05T22:30:00-04:00
Where:
Nighttown
12387 Cedar Road
Cleveland Heights
Ohio
Cost:
$25
Guitarist Extraordinaire returns to Nighttown with All-Star Group!

Featuring: Dave Stryker-Guitar, Mike Lee-Sax, Bobby Floyd-Hammond B-3 Organ, & Reggie Jackson-drums.

Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker leading his own group (with 28 CD’s as a leader to date), co-leading The Stryker/Slagle Band, or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.”

Joining Dave will be Hometown favorite, tenor saxophonist Mike Lee. Mike was a staple of the Cleveland Jazz scene in the 80’s and 90’s and is now a veteran of the New York Jazz and international Scene having performed and recorded with Oliver Lake, The Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, Wallace Roney, The Jimmy Heath Orchestra, Dave Stryker, Michele Rosewoman, Loston Harris, Roy Hargrove, The Village Vanguard Orchestra, Radam Schwartz and many others.

Dave’s new CD “Strykin’ Ahead” features the same lineup as “Eight Track II”- Steve Nelson, Jared Gold and McClenty Hunter, and is getting great reviews. “Messin’ with Mister T”, is a celebration of the man he worked with for over a decade — Stanley Turrentine, “Mister T” — with ten of the greatest tenor sax players on the scene today. It went to #1 on JazzWeek Radio and stayed in the Top 50 for 20 weeks and has received great reviews including 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat magazine. Dave’s last CD “Eight Track” was #9 for 2014 on the Jazz Week Radio Charts where it stayed for 20 weeks topping off at #3 for 3 weeks. Downbeat magazine picked it as one of the Top CD’s of 2014, and ran a feature article in the June 2014 issue on Dave. Dave was recently voted into the 2017 Downbeat Critics and Readers Poll for the 10th time.

Dave Stryker grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and moved to New York City in 1980. After establishing himself in the local music scene, he joined organist Jack McDuff’s group for two years 1984-85. When McDuff wasn’t on the road (literally traveling by van all over the country) they worked a steady four-night a week gig at Dude’s Lounge in Harlem. His first break, this turned out to be an invaluable experience, paying his dues night after night with the soulful jazz organist. It was at Dude’s Lounge that Stryker met tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, who would occasionally sit in. After leaving McDuff, Turrentine asked Stryker to join his quintet. From 1986-1995 he played with the legendary saxophonist at all the major festivals, concert halls, and clubs throughout the world. He is featured on two Turrentine CD’s (Stanley recorded Stryker’s tune “Sidesteppin”). With Turrentine, Stryker was able to play with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Freddie Hubbard. The ten years playing alongside the tenor legend helped Stryker realize the importance of having his own sound. Dave continued to work with Stanley and was with him during his final week at the Blue Note in NYC, when he passed in Sept. 2000.

Early on Stryker realized that as much as he loved playing standards and the jazz repertoire he had to have something of his own to give to the music. He feels that his writing combined with his playing is what shapes his musical expression. He has recorded and published over 150 of his own compositions and has released “The Dave Stryker Songbook” with most of his original music.

http://www.davestryker.com/wp/

Nighttown
12387 Cedar Road
Cleveland Heights, OH
Map
216-795-0550

Fri, October 5, 2018

8:30 PM

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