Hubert Laws

"The Grammy Museum Salutes the Jazz Bakery", a tribute and benefit to assist in the Jazz Bakery relocation, will be held at the Grammy  Museum Sound Stage on the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, July 19th starting at 7:30 pm. The concert will feature Grammy winners and nominees Kenny Burrell, Hubert Laws, Alan Bergman, Alan Broadbent Trio, Tierney Sutton, Bill Henderson, Mike Melvoin, and will be hosted by Jeff Garlin. The Jazz Bakery, a highly repected non-profit jazz-only venue, closed on May 31, 2009 after 16-years in the Helms Bakery localation and plans to reopen this fall in a new location.

Kenny Burrell © Andrea Canter

NEA jazz master Kenny Burrell composed the 1998 Grammy Award winning song "Dear Ella", performed by Dee Dee Bridgewater. His compositions have been recorded by many other great artists such as Ray Brown, Jimmy Smith, Grover Washington Jr., John Coltrane, June Christy, Frank Wess and Stevie Ray Vaughn. More recently, he received a commission grant from Meet the Composer, Inc. to write an original, extended composition for the Boys Choir of Harlem which premiered at New York's Lincoln Center, and in 1997 was recorded for Concord Records.

Internationally renowned flutist Hubert Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres; moving effortlessly from one repertory to another. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, with the orchestras of Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Cleveland, Amsterdam, Japan, Detroit and with the Stanford String Quartet. He has given annual performances at Carnegie Hall, and has performed sold out performances in the Hollywood Bowl with fellow flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal and was a member of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestras. In addition, he has appeared at the Montreux, Playboy, and Kool Jazz festivals; he performed with the Modern Jazz Quartet at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982 and with the Detroit Symphony in 1994. His recordings have won three Grammy nominations. www.hubertlaws.com
 
Alan Bergman has always been a "closet crooner" according to composer, Dave Grusin. He found his public voice late in life and began singing for charity events which led to performances at clubs such as The Russian Tea Room (NY), The Jazz Bakery (LA), The Oakroom at The Algonquin Hotel (NY), Feinstein's at The Regency (NY). Lyrically on Verve, is a selection of Alan & Marilyn Bergman's most popular songs sung by Alan Bergman with the Berlin Big Band and Radio Orchestra.  Quincy Jones says, "Like Sinatra, Alan can turn a 32 bar song into a 3 Act Play." www.alanandmarilynbergman.com/
 
Pianist Alan Broadbent has long been a major force behind the scenes in jazz, whether it was accompanying Irene Kral on some of the most exquisite vocal albums ever recorded, contributing arrangements to Natalie Cole or playing piano with Charlie Haden’s Quartet West. He is prized by vocalists for his skills as an accompanist, working with, among others, Sheila Jordan, Sue Raney, Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme, Karrin Allyson, Mary Stallings, Judy Niemack and Carol Sloane. However he is most famous for recording three timeless ballad albums with Irene Kral: Where Is Love, Kral Space and Gentle Rain. “I’m not aware of lyrics when I’m playing, I never have been. Instead, I’m listening to how the singer phrases, like I would a horn player. I look back on those albums with Irene, which is very sensitive music, as some of my most valuable work. If nothing else, those records are something I can leave behind. It shows that in the best music it’s not about what you play or sing, but what you have to say and feel that is most important.”

Tierney Sutton © Andera Canter

For more information about the jazz bakery visit http://jazzbakery.org

• The Grammy Museum Salutes the Jazz Bakery
• Tickets: $40 (GRAMMY Museum Members: $35)
• Show: 7:30 pm Sun. July 19th, Doors open: 7:00 pm. 
• Call the Museum Box Office: 213.765.6803 hours: 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM 
• Tickets can also be purchased in-person at the Museum Box Office. 
• Tickets held at will-call - valid id required. For more info call the JB: 310 271-9039
• Location: on the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, on the campus of L.A. LIVE. 
• Museum entrance: on Figueroa Street. 
• Parking: available in the "East Garage" off Olympic

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