Tom Harrell

Worth Considering

Roman Nights CD

Remember the November 28th Concert, Jam Session

Sit-ins welcome, but no Wolves allowed!  For more information, click HERE

Jazz a la Brass Quintet in Rome!

A new recording by our friend Jim Martinez

Jim has recorded a new piece entitled "Your Name." Brandon Muchow is doing the vocal, and it's a great jazz version of a popular Christian song.  Enjoy! (and don't forget to turn off the mixpod before you listen)



Incidentally, we're working on getting Jim and Laura Didier back with us for the Jazz at the Church Concerts, maybe for a Jazz Concert and Jam Session AND the Doris Day Tribute concert... hopefully very soon!  That would be a great weekend, eh?  

Jim's MP3 music on Amazon.com

Sedona Jazz at the Church Update

What a great event last Sunday! Here are some pictures from the concert, which was filled with gifted musicians -  The trio of Steve Sandner, Denny Garr and Floyd Roberson, who were joined by sit-ins Lou Turano, Harley Gittleman, Vismayah, the Church Gardener and our dear friend and gifted Vicki McDermitt!

The next Jazz at the Church Concert and Jam Session will take place on Thanksgiving Day Weekend.  Specifically, from 1-3 pm, after the 10 am Morning Mass.  We’ll be having a special fellowship hour after the mass, with scrumptuous goodies AND time to be with one another socially.  

The church will be readied and the Jazz will begin anew, with November's version of the Steve Sandner Trio (Steve Sandner and Piano, Steve Douglas on Bass and Floyd Roberson on Drums) headlining the afternoon.  Sounds fabulous, doesn’t it!  

This will be the second concert with “Jam Session” attached to it, and if it’s half as good as the last one, it’ll be MORE than a smashing success!  So mark you calendars now, and bring those folk with you whom you know don’t have a spiritual home, and/or love Jazz!!  

Worth Considering

Re-Birth Of The Cool

Sedona Jazz at the Church is Fast Approaching...

Jazz Concert Poster

Our Jazz Concerts begin in less than two weeks, with a concert the weekend of Sedona Jazz on the Rocks festival.  (Saturday, October 2).

Our gathering is the following afternoon - Sunday - with Soundscape Sedona Trio entertaining us.

  The trio consists of Susannah Martin, Vocals, our own jazz master AND church organist Steve Sandner on piano, and Steve Douglas on bass.

We've made a promotional flyer/poster (above) for the concert, which will be distributed hither and yon throughout Sedona and surrounding communities.  

If you would like some of the flyers to give to your friends, you can pick them up at the Church any day ('cept Saturdays), as they are on the Votive Candle stand table at the back of the Church.  (And if you want more information on the concerts, click the headline above!)

Help us help others find out about our parish church... the jazz, the holiness and the stunning beauty of both the courtyard setting and the building itself.  Bring them to one or both of the October concerts, and ask them to come to mass with you on Sundays... You - and they! - will be glad you did!  

We've expanded Jazz for October!

We've added another jazz concert at the church for October, so now we have two concerts - the first on October 3 (the weekend of "Sedona Jazz on the Rocks") and the second on October 17, our Patronal Feast weekend!

Both are at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on their particular Sunday.  For more information, click on the headline above, and be sure to make plans to attend...  mark your calendar now so as not to miss these great afternoons of Jazz in the prettiest venue imaginable!

We hope the two concerts will be the beginning of another great year of Jazz at the Church, and the price can't be beat anywhere in town - it's FREE!

Trio begins new season of Jazz @ the Church

Soundscape Sedona Trio

With their upcoming afternoon concert, Soundscape Sedona Trio begins the 2010 - 2011 Season of Sedona Jazz at the Church Concerts. 


    The trio consists of Susannah Martin, Vocals, Steve Douglas on Bass and Steve Sandner playing the piano. We'll be showcasing one musician each day for the next three days, and "first up" will be Susannah, who gets her spotlight tomorrow!
    The group brings with it a variety of styles, from Bossa Nova to beefy ballads, and if you want to hear them do Bossa Nova, CLICK HERE for a musical treat - Steve Sandner & Susannah Martin's rendition of Jobim's classic Corcovado, also known as  Quiet nights of quiet stars.
    For now, mark your calendars, so as not to miss this fun afternoon of cool Jazz at the Church. Admission is free; however, donations are encouraged, with the proceeds going directly and solely to the musicians!

Sunday, October 3, 2010

3 o'clock in the Afternoon

Judy Roberts @ the Monterey Jazz Festival

Pianist Judy Roberts

Our dear friend Judy Roberts is playing at the Monterey Jazz festival this weekend.    
      As Greg Fishman is giggin' there also, I assume they'll be playing together. 

      Judy is a master of all 88 keys of the piano, and although I don't know how many keys are on Greg's Saxophone, he rules them all, too!  

      Here's the link for some good info on both Judy and Greg, which is found on the Monterey Jazz Festival website. Have a great weekend, you two, and we'll hopefully see you up here for one of our concerts very soon!

Sedona's Jazz on the Rocks Festival

Sedona Jazz on the Rocks festival happens on Saturday, October 2, 2010, and it promises to be a GREAT event. We'll also be doing a concert at Saint Luke's church on the next day - Sunday, October 3. When we've finished the plans, we'll let everyone know the details. And yes, ours will be a free concert; however, donations are encouraged, with the proceeds going directly and solely to the musicians!

jazz returns to Saint Luke's Church, Sedona AZ!

Mark your calendar, 'cause our Sedona Jazz at the Church is coming back in October, on the day we celebrate our 23rd annual Patronal Feast!

More more information, go to the Jazz page, found by clicking the Jazz at the Church picture in the right column of the blog.

We're back... 'bout time, eh?

Well, so much for having to wait "'til the cows come home" to hear Jazz returning to Saint Luke's!

We're bringing back our Jazz at the Church concert series on the patronal feast of our parish, with Steve Sandner and Friends doing a 3pm concert on Sunday, October 17, 2010.

It's billed as a Sunday Jazz Jam, and that means that we'll have cats sittin' in during the concert!

As it always is when Steve's present, it promises to be a GREAT afternoon, and we are now in the process of getting the jazzers together, and will publish the "house band" members as soon as possible.

But please do remember, Steve is back in the Midwest now, so it'll take a bit of patience and time before we can publish the makeup of the group!

For now, put the date on your calendar, think about what friends of yours are jazz afficionados, and get ready for a great afternoon of gifted improvisation by talented musicians!

Enjoy the music "machine" to the right, and block out Sunday, October 17, 2010, so that you'll be with us!

Click the Sedona Jazz at the Church picture to the right, to go to the home page of our jazz gatherings at Saint Luke's.

Here's Sunday's "piano man!"

Sunday's Valentine's Day concert will include pianist Steve Sander, as he accompanies Renee Patrick and George Grant in their "Daughter and Dad Duo Plus One" concert.

Steve also "gigs" at Saint Luke's as the parish organist/pianist, to our delight!!

Here's a video of Steve playing the jazz standard by Saul Chaplin & Sammy Cahn, "Please Be Kind," with his quintet in Michigan last Summer...

Renee's coming to SJATC on Sunday!

Renee Patrick is coming back to Sedona Jazz at the Church on Sunday - Valentine's Day - with her Dad, George Grant!

It'll be quite an afternoon, with Steve Sandner rounding out a Valentine Trio of Love-ly Jazz music and ballads.

Click the "Next Concert" picture to the right for more information and tickets, and here's Renee giggin' over in Payson a few years ago with our friend Judy Roberts and her trio (Judy on Piano; the multi-talented Greg Fishman, this time on Bass; Gerry Reynolds, drums)...

Mal Waldron quintet 2 -Woody Shaw-solo-Reggie Workman

JOTFH - Jazz on the french horn: Part 2

Here's Giovanni again...

Nina Simone: "How it feels to be free"

I wonder... what Nina would have sung today?

JOTO - Jazz on the Oboe: Part 2

Indeed... listen to this frenchman, Jean-Luc Fillon...

Gee, Baby, ain't I good to you

Cool and understated Joe Williams, Dizzy Gillespie & Henry Johnson...

JOTO - Jazz on the Oboe!

This gal - Oboe tomoca - does something few dreamed of... she plays jazz on that "goofy" double-reed instrument which usually sits in the depths of an orchestra... right in the middle and almost unseen by most... the Oboe!

Tomorrow a post of the "grand master of oboe jazz" - Yusef Lateef ... no doubt an inspiration to Oboe tomoca's playing!!