SOUL STATION" The Music of Hank Mobley
78th Birthday Celebration @ Minton's Playhouse
210 West 118th Street, NYC 10026 - www.uptownatmintons.com
Saturday, May 31, 2008
3 Shows - 10 pm - 11:30 - 1:00
GEORGE V JOHNSON JR - vocalese
Original lyrics to over 40 Mobley compositions
DON SICKLER - trumpet/arrangments
5 Time Grammy Award winning arranger/producer
Patience Higgins - sax
Fred Foss - sax
Raymond Angry - piano
Andy McCloud - bass
Victor Jones - drums
GEORGE V JOHNSON JR, writes lyrics about complex things: personal experiences, love, history, family, home, heaven and most of all Jazz! Phrases turn, emotions connect, melodies soar. It's a fuel that burns full-throttle, ignited by the heat of his soulful voice and the power and passion of his performance. You sing along even though you've never heard the tune before. George writes from a perspective of distances, of interludes between lovers and lives and the roads that lead from small towns to big cities.
He is considered by many as "Heir Apparent" to Eddie Jefferson's innovation "THE ART OF JAZZ VOCALESE and is one of the foremost practitioners of the vocalese style on the Jazz scene today. He first turned heads on his debut recording in 1981 with "Pharaoh Sanders" on the LP REJOICE and was credited with vocals and lyric on Coltrane's classic "Moments Notice ", later reissued on CD by Evidence Music
Throughout the 80's George was mentored and performed regularly with "James Moody & Lou Donaldson". Two of the greatest saxophonist in the history of Jazz. His close association with Moody led to many Local & National Live Radio and Television Broadcasts, Carnegie Hall Kool Jazz Festivals, Town Hall Tribute to Charlie Parker w/Strings arranged by Barry Harris, South Seaport Jazz Festival, clubs throughout NYC including: Sweet Basil, Bottom Line, 7th Avenue South, Village Vanguard, Village Gate, Grand reopening of Live @ the Apollo' Apollo Theatre, yearly Grant's Tomb, Jazz Mobile concerts throuhout NYC NJ, Phila. Wash DC., P.A., Indiana, Ohio, Mt. Vernon NY, Binghamton NY, Springfield Ma., & Hartford Ct.
George V Johnson Jr, performs lyrics to over 40 Hank Mobley's classic compositions including: Hank's Symphony, Soul Station, Dig Dis, No Room For Squares, East of The Village, This I Dig of You, Take Your Pick, Three Way Split, Split Feelings, Up A Step, Work Out, The Baptist Beat, My Groove Your Move, Soft Impressions, Hank's Waltz, Chain Reaction, Roll Call, Syrup & Biscuits, Snappin Out, Comin' Back, The Feelings Good, Uh Huh, Up Over and Out, Looking East, Cute N' Pretty, Third Time Around, Bossa For Baby, Ballin, Madeline, No More Goodbyes, The Break Through, Hank's Other Bag, Infra Rae, StraightNoFilter, Caddy for Daddy, The Morning After. . . and more...
Come on out and wittness this historic event...
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This Week's Guest &
Live Interview
Thursday, February 28th, 2009
12:00 AM - 5:00 AM
GEORGE V JOHNSON JR
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