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Mindi Abair at UCPAC Hamilton Stage
August 17, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT
Smooth Jazz NZj presents Wine and Jazz featuring Mindi Abair at UCPAC Hamilton Stage
“21st Century Sophistication, A Gritty, Raucous Spirit, And Exceptional Creative Imagination” – Allmusic.Com
Also join us in the WBGO Piano Lounge and enjoy the community as we sample wine, spirits and the sounds of emerging star Leonieke Scheuble on the keys making beautiful music for us all to enjoy. Come join usfor free in the Piano Lounge which is open to all.
About Mindi Abair – Saxophonist/vocalist
During her remarkable 21-year recording career, saxophonist/vocalist Mindi Abair has garnered 2 GRAMMY nominations, recorded with some of the biggest names in music, and built a substantial following among jazz and blues audiences with her soaring melodies and powerhouse style.
In 2014, Mindi received her first GRAMMY nomination in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category for Summer Horns with Dave Koz, Richard Elliot and Gerald Albright, followed by a 2015 GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for her solo LP Wild Heart featuring the late Gregg Allman, Joe Perry, Trombone Shorty, Booker T. Jones, Keb’ Mo’, and Max Weinberg.
About Pianist Leonieke Scheuble
Leonieke Scheuble is a gifted pianist and jazz organist who possesses a rare talent for blues and jazz improvisation at an unusually young age. Born to an engineer mother and a musician father in 2002, she was given a Dutch name after her parents lived in the Netherlands on assignment and developed an affection for Holland and the Dutch people12. At just 10 years old, jazz great Dr. Lonnie Smith gifted her a Hammond organ after seeing a clip of her playing piano. Three years later, she won the “Best Up and Coming Young Artist” award at the Hot House Fan Decision Awards3. Leonieke’s musical journey began with inspiration from the movie “Ray,” based on the life of Ray Charles. Despite having no prior musical training, she spent hours at the piano creating rhythmically interesting and compositionally balanced pieces
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