WAR Live in Concert @ Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley | Jan 27th-30th, 2011
WAR
January 27-30, 2011
FROM: The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
2033 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98121
CONTACT: Rachael Millikan, 206-441-9729, [email protected]
RE: Performance at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
COST: $35.00
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents American Funk Band WAR four nights. Members include Lonnie Jordan (singer/keyboardist), Fernando Harkless (saxophone/vocals), Marcos J. Reyes (percussion), Stuart Ziff (lead guitar), Sal Rodriguez (drums/vocals), Pancho Tomaselli (bass guitar, vocals), and Mitch Kashmar (harmonica/vocals). Set times Thursday through Saturday at 7:30pm and 9:30pm and Sunday at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 6:00pm on Thursday and 5:30pm on Friday through Sunday.
Their sound has captured the heart and soul of America’s streets. From the late-’60s all the way to the present day, Los Angeles-based WAR played the music that made people dance and think. Famous for songs like “Low Rider” and “Why Can’t We Be Friends”, WAR fuses rock vibes, Latin rhythms, funk, blues, jazz, and soul into a distinctive sound all their own. WAR, the self-described Afro-Cuban-rock-jazz-blues band, was a righteous force coming straight out of “the neighborhood.”
The group was created in the late-1960s by Jerry Goldstein and British singer Eric Burdon from The Animals. Burdon found musicians who were able to back his improvisation, and, as such, the albums Eric Burdon declares WAR and The Black-Man’s Burdon soon became cultural touchstones of the ’60s.
After Burdon moved away from the group, WAR’s career skyrocketed in the early ’70s, as their exhilarating sound spoke to millions of Americans about the troubled times of Vietnam, Watergate, racial strife, and the tensions of the inner cities. “The diversity of influences on us was not only musical but was social as well. As a result we tried to be entertaining while also spreading the word of peace, harmony and brotherhood,” says singer-keyboardist Lonnie Jordan, who has been there since the group’s inception. “Our instruments and voices became our weapons of choice and the songs our ammunition. We spoke out against racism, hunger, gangs, crimes and turf wars, as we embraced all people with hope and the spirit of brotherhood”.
WAR is a band that spans social classes, races, and causes. The Very Best of War traces this revolutionary band’s free-form beginnings on into their journey through cultural shifts in taste and styles. Two full CDs worth of hits that still sound as fresh as the day they were recorded. www.wartheband.com/home.html
This is an advance sale/pre-pay show with reserved seating. All purchases are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Vouchers, donated gift certificates, student, senior and military discounts, children under 12 free discounts and 2 for 1 cards are not applicable for this show. All shows are all ages.
Upcoming Shows
Bill Hall Quartet featuring Greg Osby February 3—6
Vijay Iyer February 8—9