Using us at your next function could be the best decision you'll make this year. Yes, we take certain liberties, but that's what makes it fun for us, and unforgettable for our audience. has a great band, but do his trombones play "In The Mood" while traveling up and down the escalators at the Evergreen Plaza? We don't think so. It is our mission in life to have a good time, and that goal sets us apart from even the best big bands. What else would you have called 16 year olds who form a 40's era swing band in 1981? The name says it all, even today. Caf Wha bands showcase amazing live musical talent, covering a variety of. Why "The Outcasts"? Our most often asked question, next to "Do you do any Snoop Dog?". Cafe Wha has been offering the best live music to New York City since 1959. Since that fateful summer so long ago, we have been swingin' our way through some of the most prestigious ballrooms and events in the Chicagoland Area. Whenever a fight would break out, we had to hustle everything out the back alley entrance, because how do you explain high school kids in a bar at midnight on a Saturday? Within a year, we had doubled our repertoire and our personnel. What began as a summer diversion blossomed almost immediately, and we soon found ourselves playing in a seedy bar on West 111th St. The original OJB (actually Gilbert's Social Outcast Band) was comprised of ten kids ranging in ages from 13 to 17, and was put together solely for the purpose of entertaining at the St. The Outcast Jazz Band was founded in the Summer of 1981 by the late Gilbert "Smokey" Robinson. We concentrate on the classic big band sounds of the 30's, 40's and 50's, but we also throw in a smattering of anyone from Van Morrison to Paul Simon to Ray Charles.
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We've all been there - you're in a bar, the mood is what you can best describe as "meh," your friends are either too drunk, not drunk enough, or talking to other people that aren't you (traitors) and you're left sitting there like a total loser.The Outcasts are 17 members strong, sporting 5 saxophones, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets, a full rhythm section, as well as several vocalists. It also doesn't help that you're nursing a poorly mixed drink that tastes a whole lot more like anguish than a vodka cranberry. Your head rests in your clammy palm and your sleeve is getting wet from the drink condensation and you look about as happy to be alive as Kristen Stewart.
It's a rough night - that is, until it happens. With wall-to-wall sound, a massive video screen and four cash bars. No, not your fave song at the moment or the one you like to wax poetic about once you've had one too many glasses of Riesling. Event Views Navigation The Olivia Van Goor Quartet Ellie Martin Kim Buehler Jim Gottron Keller, Kocher and Company The Blues Man Bobby G. This song is the one that makes you, a poor man's Eeyore, and the rest of the downtrodden bar come to LIFE. The song that is a unifier, the one that gets everyone to passionately belt out with wild hand gestures, regardless of culture, gender, or creed. With the big band sounds of yesteryear keeping you on the dance floor, these cats will be playing those old swinging standards you all like to dance to PLUS. But as America came out of the Depression, the public wanted musical entertainment the big band era was about to begin. Of course, "the song" doesn't always have to be the remedy to a bad day or poor night out. ADVERTISEMENT Listen to the best of big band jazz on Spotify. "The song" is just as effective whether you're ready to dance on top of the bar or fall asleep under it. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs. In fact, it's best served in a bar full of tank top clad people who are out at 12 a.m. Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
on a Tuesday simply because it's summer and that's something to celebrate. Because for real, the humidity and bad hair days will forever reign over gray skies, biting wind, and that nuisance from the sky we call snow.
Big Band jazz: see Swing binary form: a form comprised of two distinctly opposing sections (A vs. So here are just a few of the songs that make strangers in bars cling onto each other like Jack and Rose on that frigid-ass raft (well, like, before she pushes him off. B) bitonality: modern music sounding in two.
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