Jazz Nights: Mike Boone, Neil Podgurski, Daniel Gonzalez
Thu, Aug 25
|Jim Thorpe
"The patriarch of the Philly Jazz Scene, mentor to all…and the torch-bearer of the Philly jazz tradition." - Nicholas Krolak That pretty much describes the venerable bass player Mike Boone and we're pleased to present Mike Boone with Neil Podgurski on piano and Daniel Gonzalez on drums Sept 25th
Time & Location
Aug 25, 2022, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Jim Thorpe, 268 W Broadway, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, USA
Guests
About the event
Mike Boone
"A native New Yorker and Eastman grad, Boone was fresh off a second tour with Buddy Rich when he landed in Philadelphia in 1986. When he got to Philly, he put down his electric bass and picked up the acoustic; it was the only way to get gigs with the aging titans who still very much ran the Philly scene then. He immersed himself in that scene, playing at the old, beloved Ortlieb’s, educated by professors like saxophonist Bootsie Barnes, organist Shirley Scott, pianist Sid Simmons, and drummer Mickey Roker.
Boone has preserved that legacy; no one in the city teaches young musicians how to gig and how to become professionals better or more thoroughly than Boone, who, in addition to furiously gigging himself, also teaches at Temple University and is the always opinionated, low-talking pied piper of Philadelphia’s most legit jazz jam sessions—at Heritage in Northern…
Tickets
Jazz Nights: Mike Boone
$15.00
+$0.38 ticket service fee
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