Music Calendar

Ben Beal Smooth and Sultry vocals will embrace your musically palette, as he demonstrates his fervently pursued knowledge of the American Songbook. His pianistic  approach is masterful, as he blends both skills to create a “voltron” of an artist set the romantic evening and/or nostalgia of pure jazz  beyond your expectations.

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Addison Rifkind is a guitarist and bandleader from Studio City, CA based in Miami, FL. His unique style is rooted in the blues, soul, and bebop with deep grooves and melodic playing as its emphasis.

Vocalist and songwriter Beatriz Guzman has been steadily making her mark in Miami’s music scene since 2018. As a versatile musician, she has performed solo, duo, with small groups, in coffee shops, big bands, and in concert halls. Beatriz earned her Master of Music degree in jazz vocal performance from Florida International University. While pursuing her degree, she won the FIU University Graduate School Excellence Award, and also was a Gold Coast Jazz Society Scholarship winner. She also hold five Downbeat Music Awards in the vocal jazz and in the blues/pop/rock category. Beatriz has performed in acclaimed venues and events such as SunFest, the Miami Downtown Jazz Festival, the Jazz Education Network conference, Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Sofar Sounds Chicago and Fort Lauderdale, WDNA Miami Jazz Radio, and many more.

Groovy, swinging, and sophisticated at the same time, versatile guitarist and composer Russ Spiegel hits all the right notes. Covering a wide variety of styles from rock and blues, to funk and Latin, as well as hard-swinging modern and most-modern jazz, Russ has been garnering rave reviews for his performances all around the world. Russ Spiegel is a commissioned composer and arranger, as well as a highlight respected international guitarist, bandleader, writer, musicologist, and award-winning sound engineer.

LeNard Rutledge, born and raised in Miami, Florida, where there are only a handful of truly great jazz vocalists, is usually compared, aptly, to the legendary Lou Rawls. Like Rawls, Rutledge’s classy elegance is often permeated by the raw passion of his church choir work. In fact Rutledge still sings with the choir at The Church of The Incarnation. Rutledge began not as a vocalist but as a percussionist, playing in the marching and concert band at Miami Central Senior High, and later making his income while attending Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina.  He began his vocal career in 1997, when he was asked to join the famed Melton Mustafa Orchestra after returning to Miami. LeNard was the featured vocalist for Melton Mustafa for seven years. In 2002, Rutledge was introduced to the music director of The Van Dyke Café’s, Don Wilner, who immediately recognized Rutledge’s talent and began giving him regular performance dates. LeNard has shared the stage with a number of highly respectable jazz artist such as: Wycliffe Gordon, Kenny Drew Jr., Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kirk Whalum, Marion Meadows and the late George Duke.

Transport your ears to the birth of Jazz crooner Era of the 1950s. Haley presents the Great American Songbook in it’s purest form bring Nostalgia to the days that were. 

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    Is a drummer/producer/songwriter based out of Miami, Fl. He was introduced to music at a very young age 

    Aaron’s next focus was auditioning for the world renowned University of Miami Frost School of Music. He was accepted into the program in 2009 and received his Bachelors Degree in Studio & Jazz Performance in 2012. It was there that he was exposed to and learned about Jazz Drumming, and the language of Jazz music. It was also during this time that he began to develop his skills as a band leader and song writer, with the creating of The Politix.

    Since he graduated, Aaron Glueckauf has went on to work with a number of different artists and in many different genres of music. He is currently touring worldwide with Matt Schofield (British Blues Hall of Fame), Danay Suarez (Universal Latin artist), and is a member of up and coming bands Lemon City Trio, and TWYN. 

 Lucas Netto  captivates many with his respect to the classics of jazz while infusing their his influence and voice with new touches and original compositions. Lucas is a Tenor Saxophonist and Clarinetist pushing to propel music to new heights through his daring yet sensitive musical spirit. While focusing on his own compositional voice, he draws inspiration for the great pioneers like John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Sonny Rollins as well as newer voices such as Walter Smith iii and Marquis Hill. Lucas recently performed at the Vail Jazz Festival in Colorado and Carnegie Hall in New York City. He is inspired by all forms of music including Indian Classical music, hip hop, Afro-Cuban, Western Classical, Brazilian, and more.