Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) ~ Songs for Chanukah,
Christmas, and the Solstice
Saturday, December 8, 2012 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Musically Minded Academy
5776 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 601-5700
http://www.musicallyminded.com/
Door general $15, students/seniors $12, advance sales available until Dec.
8:
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Featuring artists:
Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein), vocals
Ben Flint, keyboards
Fred Randolph, bass
Alan Hall, drums
Jazz and pop
singer and poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and her Holiday Trio will perform a
diverse mix of songs celebrating Chanukah, Christmas, and the Solstice at this
special concert on the first night of Chanukah. The performance will feature
songs from Lisa B's 2011 holiday CD, including the Jewish traditional song
"Hine Ma Tov," Matisyahu's Chanukah song "Miracle," the
standards "Let It Snow," "Have Yourself A Merry Little
Christmas," and "Christmas Time Is Here," Donny Hathaway's soul
holiday song "This Christmas," a special version of Cole Porter's
"Night and Day" celebrating the Solstice, and Lisa B's new originals
"Holiday in Oakland" and "The Flame."
Singer-songwriter-poet Lisa B (Lisa
Bernstein) performs jazz, jazz-soul, and pop standards and original songs,
often incorporating her unique spoken word and poetic rap. Her five CDs
received radio play and charting on hundreds of trade-reporter stations and
excellent reviews in All Music Guide, Jazz Times, and many other
publications.
Of Lisa’s 2011 holiday CD, critics wrote
“Vibrant, diverse... courageous… [with] an energy that is enchanting” (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer); “Should be playing in hipper households over the next few
months. Tasty throughout” (Midwest Record); “An ambitious undertaking… Ms.
Bernstein’s energy is so palpable –- you can’t help but be drawn in… highly
recommended.” –
Girlsingers.org.
Lisa B has performed 80+ gigs in the Bay Area
and beyond, including the Elbo Room, Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco State,
Stanford University, 2009 Harmony Festival, La Pena, Paradise Lounge, and 2nd
Annual Bay Area JazzPoetry Festival. She is the author of the poetry books The
Transparent Body (Wesleyan University Press) and Anorexia (Five
Fingers Poetry), and her poems have appeared in 60+ anthologies and
periodicals. Lisa B is a former Associate Director of the Poetry Center at SFSU
and received creative writing grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
Headlands Center for the Arts, and elsewhere. She also volunteers as a poetry-writing
teacher to youth in Oakland and Emeryville. (www.lisabmusic.com)
Ben Flint, pianist, performed for many years
with Isaac Hayes’s band and has also performed with Ledisi, Mary Stallings, and
Nicolas Bearde. He studied at the Berklee College of Music, has a
master’s degree in music from USC, and teaches at Berkeley Community College
and the Jazzschool. Ben is a regular member of Lisa B’s trio and has cowritten
one song with her.
Bassist Fred Randolph leads The Fred Randolph
Quintet and performs with the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Sandy Cressman’s
Homenagem Brasileira, Michael Smolens’s Kriya, Bobbe Norris and Larry Dunlap,
Kenny Washington, Marcos Silva, and many others. He leads the jazz program at
Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland.
Drummer Alan Hall has performed and/or
recorded with Eddie Harris, Paul McCandless, Art Lande, Ratzo Harris, Stuart
Hamm, Kai Eckhardt, Billy Childs, Kenny Werner, Rebecca Parris, Cirque du
Soleil and many others. He is featured on Lisa B’s 2011 holiday CD. He teaches
at Cal State University East Bay, the Jazzschool, Musically Minded Academy, and
elsewhere.
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