Laguna Beach Live! Presents Rickey Woodard June 22, 2011
Laguna Beach, CA, June 15, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Laguna Beach Live! welcomes saxophone great Rickey Woodard on June 22.
Jazz Wednesdays Summer Series presented by Laguna Beach Live! is in the beautiful outdoor Rose Garden of the Hotel Laguna, 425 So. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. On June 22, saxophonist Rickey Woodard and his quintet will make their first appearance in this popular series. This soulful sax player captures audiences wherever he performs.
Rickey Woodard may be seen leading his own quartet or quintet as well as performing and recording with The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and the Frank Capp Juggernaut Band. Rickey also has worked in theater productions, such as Ain't Misbehavin' and The Color Purple at the Ahmanson Theatre at the LA Music Center. Other artists he has performed and recorded with are Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Smith, The Temptations, Nancy Wilson and many others.
Rickey is also a great composer and has over 200 original compositions to his credit in addition to extensive experience in arranging. His latest recording is called Pineapple Delight and consists of all original compositions that are arranged for his Quintet.
Jazz Wednesdays has a cover charge of $10 and an outstanding selection of drinks and food is available for purchase. Doors open at 5:15 PM; reservations for groups of 8 or more need to be prepaid online at www.lagunabeachlive.org or by calling 949-715-9713.
Rickey was born in Nashville where he played in a family band with his brothers and sisters, playing Blues and R'n'B around the Nashville area. At an early age, Rickey came up listening to such greats as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt. Rickey's favorite saxophone players are Hank Mobley and George Coleman, two of the all-time great players.
After leaving Nashville, Rickey went to California and joined the Ray Charles Band where he was a member for nearly a decade before he decided to pursue a solo career and recorded both as a leader and as a sideman for Concord Records.
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Jazz Wednesdays Summer Series presented by Laguna Beach Live! is in the beautiful outdoor Rose Garden of the Hotel Laguna, 425 So. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. On June 22, saxophonist Rickey Woodard and his quintet will make their first appearance in this popular series. This soulful sax player captures audiences wherever he performs.
Rickey Woodard may be seen leading his own quartet or quintet as well as performing and recording with The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and the Frank Capp Juggernaut Band. Rickey also has worked in theater productions, such as Ain't Misbehavin' and The Color Purple at the Ahmanson Theatre at the LA Music Center. Other artists he has performed and recorded with are Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Smith, The Temptations, Nancy Wilson and many others.
Rickey is also a great composer and has over 200 original compositions to his credit in addition to extensive experience in arranging. His latest recording is called Pineapple Delight and consists of all original compositions that are arranged for his Quintet.
Jazz Wednesdays has a cover charge of $10 and an outstanding selection of drinks and food is available for purchase. Doors open at 5:15 PM; reservations for groups of 8 or more need to be prepaid online at www.lagunabeachlive.org or by calling 949-715-9713.
Rickey was born in Nashville where he played in a family band with his brothers and sisters, playing Blues and R'n'B around the Nashville area. At an early age, Rickey came up listening to such greats as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt. Rickey's favorite saxophone players are Hank Mobley and George Coleman, two of the all-time great players.
After leaving Nashville, Rickey went to California and joined the Ray Charles Band where he was a member for nearly a decade before he decided to pursue a solo career and recorded both as a leader and as a sideman for Concord Records.
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949-715-9713
www.lagunabeachlive.org
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