Event

B.D. Lenz LIVE

Hailed as one of the top 20 "up and coming" NJ jazz artists by the Newark Star-Ledger and featured in the New York Times, guitarist B.D. Lenz leads a band that is very funky, highly melodic, and supremely groovin'. Lenz and crew have released four CD's of their original contemporary jazz, which fuses virtuoso musicianship with expert songwriting. Joining B.D. will be bass wiz James Rosocha, and groovemeister Tom Papadatos on drums.

Led by vocalist/songwriter/musician Stefanie Seskin, New Jersey's Blue Number Nine is an interracial soul/funk outfit with a strong 70s influence. Seskin isn't necessarily an R&B purist where blue number nine is concerned; there are, at times, traces of rock, pop and jazz in their work, but soul/funk is the primary direction of the band. Seskin favors what was called "sophisticated funk" back in the 70s, that is, the sort of gritty yet polished funk associated with Rufus/Khan, Maze, AWB and Philadelphia International Records.