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LISTING INFORMATION:
Venue: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Event: Bobby Watson & Horizon with Terrell Stafford, Ed Simon, Essiet Okon Essiet, Victor Lewis
Date: March 8-13, 2005
Address: Frederick P. Rose Hall - Broadway at 60th Street, 5th Floor
Artist Sets: 7:30 & 9:30pm every day / Also 11:30pm Friday & Saturday
After Hours Sets: 11pm Tuesday-Thursday / 12:45am Friday-Saturday
Monday: March 7: Upstarts! with Juilliard Jazz Ensemble/Ali Jackson Trio
Doors Open: 6pm for 7:30pm set / 9pm for 9:30pm set
Admission: $30 music charge for artist sets / $10 After Hours sets
Student Prices: Sun, Tues, Wed 9:30pm set $15 with valid student ID / After Hours $5 with valid student ID / Upstarts! $10 for students with valid ID
Minimum: $10 tables / $5 bar all shows
Reservations: (212) 258 9595 or www.jalc.org

This Week at Jazz at Lincoln Center's
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
BOBBY WATSON & HORIZON
with TERELL STAFFORD, ED SIMON, ESSIET OKON ESSIET & VICTOR LEWIS

After Hours with Dominick Farinacci, Adam Birnbaum, Yasushi Nakamura, Carmen Intorre

(New York, NY) March 7, 2005 - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola -- located in The House of Swing, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall – presents Bobby Watson & Horizon with Terrell Stafford, Ed Simon, Essiet Okon Essiet and Victor Lewis, performing music from Horizon Reassembled, their new recording on Palmetto Records. For this new recording and performances, Watson has reconvened the original members of Horizon!

Tuesday, March 8 through Sunday, March 13:
Bobby Watson & Horizon with Terell Stafford (trumpet), Ed Simon (piano), Essiet Okon Essiet (bass), Victor Lewis (drums)

Two full artist sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. Additional set on Friday & Saturday at 11:30pm.

Bobby Watson, former member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, is an alto player with the dexterity of Bird and the sound of a giant. Watson has recorded more than twenty recordings as a leader, but it is his mid-90s group, Horizon, that stands out as his most powerful artistic statement. Watson has reconvened all the original members for Original Horizon, proving that when you have a band this good, the passage of time is irrelevant. It sounds as though they've never been apart. Watson and Horizon will be performing music from their new CD release, Horizon Reassembled, on Palmetto Records.

Bobby Watson on Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy was a great influence on me, I came in contact with him when I was a young man in Kansas City and he never forgot who I was over the years. As I grew up and married and had kids, he became their uncle Diz. I feel so proud to have known him. He was a giant, someone who even after his chops diminished, his appeal continued to grow. He knew the value of a hug and a smile.

Monday, March 7 UPSTARTS!:
7:30 & 9:30pm: Juilliard Jazz Ensemble/Ali Jackson Trio

AFTER HOURS SETS
Tuesday-Saturday, March 8-12 After Hours: Dominick Farinacci (trumpet), Adam Birnbaum (piano), Yasushi Nakamura (bass), Carmen Intorre (drums)
Tuesday-Thursday set starts at 11pm; Friday & Saturday set starts at 12:30am.

Twenty-something Dominick Farinacci is currently enrolled in the Institute for Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School. He was one of eighteen musicians selected to be part of the inaugural year of the Jazz Studies program. Prior to his admittance into The Juilliard School, he completed four semesters in the Jazz Studies Program at Cuyahoga Community College (Cleveland, Ohio) under instruction from Steve Enos and Ernie Krivda. While still in high school, he performed in local venues in the Cleveland area on a weekly basis including stints at a popular jazz club, Nighttown.

Tuesday, March 15 through Sunday, March 20:
SOUL JAZZ II
Dr. Lonnie Smith (Hammond B-3 organ), Fred Wesley (trombone), Peter Bernstein (guitar, March 15-17), Rodney Jones (guitar, March 18-20), Lenny White (drums)

Two full artist sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. Additional set on Friday & Saturday at 11:30pm.

The king of the Hammond B3 joins forces with trombonist Fred Wesley (James Brown, George Clinton, Count Basie) to deliver some funky, swinging versions of tunes from the Doctor's newest CD on Palmetto Records, Too Darn Hot!.

Dr. Lonnie Smith is internationally known as one of the premier jazz keyboardists in the history of the idiom. A dominant talent and pace-setting proponent of the Hammond B3 Organ and widely recognized pianist, Lonnie has been at the forefront of the jazz scene since 1969 when Downbeat Magazine named him "Top Organist". Most recently he was awarded "Organ Keyboardist of the Year 2002 & 2003" by The Jazz Journalist Association. Smith was born in Buffalo, N.Y. into a musical family that had both a singing group and a radio show. Smith credits his mother as a major influence in his musical career, introducing him to gospel, classical and jazz music. As a young man in the 1950s, Smith sang in several groups including the Teen Kings. Music storeowner Art Kubera gave Smith his first Hammond B3 organ. From his early years with George Benson to present day performances and recordings, Lonnie has acquired critical acclaim for his brilliant work in the jazz world. After recording several albums with Benson, Lonnie became a solo recording artist and developed a career that has produced over 30 albums under his own name. Several legendary jazz artists have joined Dr. Lonnie Smith on his albums, including Lee Morgan, David "Fat Head" Newman, King Curtis, Blue Mitchell, and Joe Lovano among others. Lonnie has performed at the major jazz festivals with Dizzy Gillespie, Grover Washington, Jr., Ron Carter, Lou Donaldson, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Scott, Frank Foster, Leon Thomas, Willis Jackson and other prominent jazz artists. His extraordinary range has also included performances with the rhythm and blues greats Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Etta James, Esther Phillips, the Impressions and the Coasters. Dr. Lonnie Smith's album, Lenox and Seventh Avenue, recorded in Paris, has become a classic jazz tour de force.

Monday, March 7 UPSTARTS!:
7:30 & 9:30pm: The Northern Illinois University Liberace Jazztet
and "JAMMIN' WITH JACKSON" with The Ali Jackson Trio

AFTER HOURS SETS Tuesday-Saturday, March 15 through Saturday, March 19 After Hours: Akiko Tsuruga (Hammond B-3 organ), Eric Johnson (guitar), Fukushi Tainaka (drums)

Tuesday-Thursday set starts at 11pm; Friday & Saturday set starts at 12:30am.

Coming Up At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Ted Nash & Odeon
Nathalie Bonin (violin), Bill Schimmel (accordion), Clark Gayton (tuba & trombone), Matt Wilson (drums) Tuesday-Sunday, March 22-27

Music of Billie Holiday: Ernestine Anderson with Frank Wess Quartet
Ernestine Anderson (vocals), Frank Wess (tenor saxophone, flute) Tuesday-Sunday, March 30-April 3 Two full artist sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. Additional set on Friday & Saturday at 11:30pm.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children's concerts, lectures, adult education courses, film programs, and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, President & CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff and Jazz at Lincoln Center Board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2004-05 season. This is the inaugural season in Jazz at Lincoln Center's new home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz.