On Thursday, June 6, 2013 we had the pleasure of performing for the Chopard shop opening inside Neiman Marcus Bellevue. My jazz trio provided live music for this grand opening celebration of this longtime jeweler and watchmaker. Inside Neiman Marcus Bellevue is the newly constructed Chopard shop that features high end jewelry and Swiss luxury watches for women and men.
Seattle Magazine and Neiman Marcus Bellevue produced this festive grand opening event with signature crafted cocktails by Grey Goose. In my jazz trio I had a couple of some of the best musicians in the Northwest on their respective instruments. Tenor saxophonist Alexey Nikolaev and guitarist Frank Seeberger were on hand with me for this event. We played a lot of great jazz music to accentuate the atmosphere and ambiance of the scene. Here are some videos of our performance from that evening. These videos demonstrate various examples of songs we did that helped liven and elevate the upbeat mood for this sterling occasion.
This first video is a good old blues standard called Tenor Madness to get things started and to get the event off the ground.
Tenor Madness
This video is of a song from the classic 1937 Disney animated movie Snow White called Someday My Prince Will Come. This is an appropriate song for such an occasion. Jewelry and the enduring fantasy of waiting for a girl's prince to arrive go hand in hand do they not?
Someday My Prince Will Come
In this video we turned the energy up a few notches and played a funky jazz tune by the late great tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris called Cold Duck Time. Listen for my "drum" solo.
Cold Duck Time
This last video is an upbeat jazz standard called You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To.
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
I would like to thank the folks at Seattle Magazine who brought us into this event. Much thanks to Alexandria Akhavan of Neiman Marcus and Lauren Madeja of Seattle Magazine for their onsite help and support. We really enjoyed playing for all the nice people who attended this fun grand opening event!
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