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10-04-2025
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Internationally flavored Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet celebrate album release in Ann Arbor
Moody. Earthy. Soulful. Passionate. The evolving, ever-shifting sounds of the Ann Arbor-based Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet have garnered recognition from Jazz Times magazine and earned them fans around the world as well as at home in metro Detroit. Featuring oud, violin, electric bass, synthesizer and world percussion, the group explores musical traditions from Armenia, India, Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Greece — and on Wednesday, April 16, they'll bring their fire and flavor to Ann Arbor's Blue Llama Jazz Club. The quartet will be joined by guitarist Elden Kelly and vocalist/harpist Sheela Bringi at the Llama for an album release show for the group's 'Catalyst: The Music of Gregg Hill.' 'Gregg Hill is a composer and a piano player,' said Sharp, 'and what he's done over the past decade or so is he puts together groups that perform his compositions and then they get recorded and released. He's done a few with (metro Detroit musicians) Rodney Whitaker, Randy Napoleon and others. … We're following that trajectory of arranging and recording his compositions and putting it out. The record will drop on May 16, on Cold Plunge Records., which is Gregg's record label. More: Janis Siegel, Grammy-winning Manhattan Transfer vocalist, singing in Ann Arbor this week Also in arts: Detroit Opera's AI-centered 'Così fan tutte' a sloppy disappointment 'This is our 10th anniversary tour. We are going to have an expanded version of the Worlds Quartet with special guest Elden Kelly, who is a guitarist that we've collaborated with over the past 10 years. He has a similar approach to fusing a lot of different styles from around the world, whether it's jazz or flamenco or Middle Eastern music or Indian music. We'll also be joined by Sheela Bringi, who is a vocalist who lives in Boulder, Colorado, and she is an Indian classical vocalist and plays harp and bansuri, which is like an Indian bamboo flute. It has a very deep, rich sound.' Sharp has also served as artistic director for Blue Llama since its inception in 2017, carefully curating the venue's formidable lineup of regional, national, and international performers year after year. 'We opened in March 2019,' he said, 'so this is our sixth year of operation. It's a music scene where different artists can come in and have a really great-sounding stage, have a really attentive audience, and they can have an experience with really great food and drinks. It's an acoustically engineered room that's built for listening, and it's built for music performances. We've got the acoustics and our state-of-the-art sound equipment to the point where there's no other room that sounds like it in the state or in the Midwest. It's a restaurant and a jazz club at the same time.' The Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet will play at 7 and 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, at Blue Llama Jazz Club, 314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor. Tickets start at $40 and can be purchased at Contact Free Press arts and culture reporter Duante Beddingfield at dbeddingfield@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet to play Blue Llama Jazz Club in Ann Arbor
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27-02-2025
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Jazz singer to perform exclusive show in Sussex
Jazz singer Diana Krall will bring one of her exclusive UK shows to Sussex. The Grammy award winner will perform at the Brighton Centre on October 6 this year. Krall is a record-breaking musician, being the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. She has won two Grammy awards, and ten Juno awards, and has nine Gold, three Platinum and seven multi-Platinum status albums. Her 1999 release, When I Look in Your Eyes, spent 52 weeks at number one on Billboard's Jazz chart. Jazz Times described her as "a remarkable artist whose impeccable taste and musicality have made her one of the greatest interpreters of classic jazz and pop songs of our time". She is also praised by NP as being "one of the finest jazz vocalists and pianists of her generation, creating a unique sound that combines sophisticated jazz sensibilities with a timeless elegance".
