Vaudevillian troubadour Bryce Edwards and “antimodernist,” cornetist Mike Davis, present Hot Combination at Birdland Jazz Club on Monday, September 1 at 7 PM. Also featured are Ricky Alexander (reeds), Josh Holcomb (trombone), Jay Rattman (bass saxophone) Felix Lemerle (guitar), Colin Hancock (drums) and Dalton Ridenhour (piano).
The show celebrate the centennial of one of jazz’s hottest overlooked duos of Cliff Edwards (no relation), the innovative, ukulele-toting, mouth-trumpeting Cliff Edwards (who would later voice Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio) and Red Nichols, a mainstay of New York studio groups in the 1920s, Red Nichols’ cool tone, inventive cornet language, and avant-garde arrangements seem to set up an alternate jazz future that never was. In 1925, these two singular musical voices combined forces to make some of the most infectious records of the 20s, and now, one hundred years later, Davis and Edwards pay tribute and introduce the 21st century to these all-too-often forgotten figures.
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Birdland is located at 315 W 44th St., NYC
