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Lavay Smith And Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Raven Performing Arts Theater
Courtesy of Gerry Sanders | Posted on April 26, 2017
Where
Raven Performing Arts Theater
Healdsburg Jazz Festival
115 North St.
Healdsburg, CA
Map
(707) 433-6335
When
Fri, June 9, 2017
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Mike Olmos
trumpetDanny Armstrong
tromboneJules Broussard
saxophoneRob Barics
saxophone, tenorRon Belcher
bassHoward Wiley
saxophone, tenorAbout
Plus the winner of the HJF Student Jazz Combo Competition
Making a long-awaited festival debut, Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers pay tribute to the great women singers of blues and jazz. Here, timeless songs associated with such vocal legends as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington (as well as such under-the-radar notables as Ivey Anderson, Helen Hums and Joya Sherrill) will be heard again, as interpreted by a first rate singer who lives and breathes the music of her heroines.
Supporting her will be the Red Hot Skillet Lickers featuring Mike Olmos on trumpet, Danny Armstrong on trombone, Jules Broussard on alto saxophone, Rob Barics on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Ron Belcher on string bass and Howard Wiley on drums. Under the direction of pianist Chris Siebert (Smith’s husband), this jumping unit is as deeply immersed in the sounds of traditional jazz and swing as their similarly obsessed leader....