Welcome to the newest jazz club in town -- JAZZ in the Annex! Every third Thursday of the month, the JAZZ HOUSE @ Montclair (NJ) presents a new monthly jazz gig featuring a performance of some of our favorite regional artists followed by a two-hour jam session where all musicians are welcome. Bring your instruments and come check it out!
Location: JAZZ HOUSE Annex, 2nd floor of JAZZ HOUSE KiDS | Main entrance is through the rear parking lot on North Willow near Bloomfield Avenue. Doors open at 6:30 pm with open act at 7:00, main act at 7:30 pm, followed by open jam until 10:30 pm.
Cover: $10 at the door
Current JAZZ HOUSE students are free
The Radam Schwartz Trio kicks off our first evening on March 23 with opening act, the JAZZ HOUSE Organ Messengers
Radam Schwartz - Organ, dir. of JAZZ HOUSE Organ Messengers
Anthony Ware - Alto Sax
Ron Jackson - Guitar
Alvester Garnett - Drums
About Radam Schwartz:
Jazz organist and pianist Radam Schwartz has built his reputation over the last 40 years playing with such great musicians as Arthur and Red Prysock, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Al Hibler, David Fathead Newman, Jimmy Ford, Tommy Gryce and Cecil Brooks III. He continues to make music history today playing with renowned artists Russell Malone, the Spirit of Life Ensemble, TK Blue, Conrad Herwig, Iron City Organ Ensemble and a number of others. Radam’s prolific career has led to many successful recordings, many making the national charts. In all, he has been on over 40 recordings, seven as leader and two as a co-leader. Some of the artists that he has recorded with are Don Braden, Jay Hogard, Russell Gunn, Ed Cherry, Andy McCloud, Bill Saxton, Bruce Williams, Frank Lacy, Paul Beaudry, Alvester Garnett, Jeff Hackworth, Rodney Jones, Miles Griffith, Clifford Adams and Sonny Fortune. His recording Organized (Muse,1996) is listed in the Hammond Organ Bible as one of the top 200 essential Organ recordings of all time. His latest recordings, Two Sides of the Organ Combo on Arabesque Records was released in 2018, made the JazzWeek and NACC Jazz Charts and his latest recording, the Radam Schwartz Organ Big Band, is the first big band recording where the organ plays the bass line throughout the session in the organ’s traditional role.
About the JAZZ HOUSE Organ Ambassadors:
This advanced student ensemble plays the music of the Organ Jazz Scene, a subgenre of jazz. This music was prevalent in African-American venues from the 1950s-1980s and still has a place on today’s jazz scene. In class, students spend time exploring the connection of the blues to modern jazz through patterns and seeing harmonic implications. This group features a bass player instead of an organist playing bass parts to emphasize the unique groove that organ jazz has.
