2nd Annual JSOB Jazz Benefit Concert

Also performing: Bert Francis and Friends, the Bubba Kolb Trio with Linda Peterson, the Ron Pirtle Quintet and more.

Doors open at 5 PM. Music from 6 to 10 PM.
Cash bar and light buffet will be available.

Christian Tamburr

Vibraphonist,Percussionist

Twenty-one year old vibraphonist Christian Tamburr joined Noel Freidline in March 2001, turning Freidline’s long established quartet into a quintet. Recently named "Top Collegiate Soloist" by Down Beat magazine, Christian cut short his second year at the prestigious University of North Florida jazz program, with his professor’s consent, to pursue a full-time career as a performing musician. Something of a child prodigy, Christian is a multi-instrumentalist, accomplished on piano, keyboards, organ, drums, world percussion, and orchestral percussion in addition to his primary instrument of vibraphone. Even before the age of twenty, Christian had already performed with such artists as Dave Brubeck, Milt Hinton, Bucky Pizarelli, Bob Haggart, Michael Feinstein, Ira Sullivan, and Mark Murphy. In the June 1996 issue of The Mississippi Rag, critic Rick Fay wrote: "…in all, 47 performers gave their time and talents. I am sure none of them would disagree if I tell you who was the biggest hit of the day. It was vibraphonist Christian Tamburr. During his set the seasoned listener could hear echoes of all the great vibemen, Hampton, Norvo, Milt Jackson. It is a lead pipe cinch this player will take his place among them."

"The Most remarkable pure technique of any piano player working in jazz today...over the course of three solo albums, Mike Jones has quietly established himself as the successor to the stupefyingly virtousic Oscar Peterson, in much the same way Peterson took the baton from the previously peerless Art Tatum in the 1950's." NeilTesser author, The Playboy Guide to Jazz

Mike Jones is a true virtuoso, a two-handed pianist who often recalls Oscar Peterson while throwing in some heated stride now and then, along with basslines worthy of Dave McKenna" -Scott Yanow of Cadence Magazine

"He is after (Dave) Mc Kenna, the great living Mainstream Monster of jazz piano, with great taste in standards and a sense of swing strong enough to rock the reading room of the British Museum. And, incredibly, he's getting better as he gets older." --Jeff Simon

2nd Annual JSOB Jazz Benefit Concert

Sunday, Feb. 10, 2002 at Doubletree Hotel in Cocoa Beach

Mike Jones is a true virtuoso, a two-handed pianist who often recalls Oscar Peterson while throwing in some heated stride now and then, along with basslines worthy of Dave McKenna" -Scott Yanow of Cadence Magazine