Tickets: $10 per person
**OPEN MIC Night with FRANK OWENS!**
Piano (Frank Owens), MC / Vocals (Chad Carter)
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Ample free parking and easy access to the Silver Spring metro. We are located about 7 blocks from the metro and are localted on Sligo Avenue just off of Georgia Avenue in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.
You can now buy tickets online! Applicable Fees may apply. However, you may still reserve tickets by simply calling 202-670-0095 or 240-704-9916
YOU MUST have PRINTOUT of TICKETS for ENTRY at the SHOW!
A bit about Mr. Frank Owens:
Frank Owens (pianist/arranger/music director) was conductor and pianist for the Broadway productions of "Ain't Misbehavin'" and Maurice Hines' "Uptown It's Hot!" as well as for the Broadway, Moscow and Kennedy Center productions of "Sophisticated Ladies." Other theatrical credits include "Black Broadway", Melvin Van Peebles' "Don't Play Us Cheap", Hartford TheaterWorks' "Paul Robeson", "Blue Monday Blues" and his own "Shades of Harlem" (also a double CD set which he produced).
Mr. Owens was musical director for the first David Letterman Show mornings, NBC-TV 1980). Other television credits include "It's Showtime at the Apollo" (for seven years), "Eubie Blake: A Century of Music", televised over PBS stations from the Kennedy Center, and "Christmas in Washington", a seasonal special on TNT. Mr. Owens has been musical director for Johnny Mathis, Chubby Checker, Melba Moore, Johnny Nash, Connie Francis, John Denver, Freda Payne, Ruth Brown, Petula Clark, Lena Horne, and currently, Keith David. As a studio musician, he has contributed to numerous recordings, receiving a Gold Record for his rhythm concept for Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree." As a recording session musician he won the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) sponsored MVP award for acoustic piano five times thereby enabling him to win the coveted Virtuoso Award. In the world of film he did dance arrangements for the film, The Wiz. He has done many radio and TV commercials “Pristiq” being the most recent.
Mr. Owens was musical director for “Tan Manhattan” (as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival) and for “Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz” at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. For more than six years, he was resident pianist at Mortimer’s, a trendy east-side restaurant, and also performed several season at the Hotel Carlyle’s Bemelman’s Bar. In addition, he has been musical director for the annual Tap Extravaganza in New York City, the annual Tap Extravaganza Queens at Flushing Town Hall, and currently hosts an open mic Friday evenings.
In addition to arranging and conducting Ruth Brown’s album, Fine and Mellow, he has also arranged and produced CD’s for Chad Carter and Patricia Nicholas. As a recording artist, Mr. Owens recorded the music of “Oliver” in an album entitled “Oliver! Ole!” for Columbia Records. His latest CD, “Frank Owens Plays the Music of Eddie Heywood” is available on Earlwood Records.
For a week in late August Mr. Owens can be seen performing at Bryant Park in Manhattan as part of its “Piano in the Park” Series.
Among his productions is a concert he produced as a tribute to Erroll Garner (his idol), at the Tribeca Theater at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC).
A bit about your host, Chad Carter:
A Washington DC native, CHAD CARTER, developed an interest and appreciation for music at an early age, beginning his musical training and education as a member of the D.C. Youth Orchestra playing the viola. He also briefly studied piano. While pursuing his undergraduate degree at Howard University and graduate degree in information technology at Carnegie Mellon University, Chad regularly sang at local clubs in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. However, it wasn?t until 1998 that Chad began to seriously pursue his musical interest as a jazz vocalist. This interest was stimulated by his participation in the Elliston Music Studios for Jazz Studies. Vocal Workshops under the direction of Ronnie Wells and Ron Elliston.
Since that time, Chad has performed at major jazz venues in the Washington, D.C. area such as Vicino's Monday Night Jazz, Blues Alley, The Smithsonian Jazz Cafe, One Step Down, Utopia, Bohemian Caverns, Twins Lounge, The Islander, Westminster Presbyterian Church Jazz Night, The DC Improv, LaPorta's, the FMJS Y2K Quarterly Concert, Philadelphia's LaRose Supper Club, and the famous Flushing Town Hall in Flushing New York. Chad has also played the famous Lenox Lounge in Harlem New York. Among those talented jazz artists with whom Chad has shared the stage and performed are Frank Owens, Kevin Mahogany, Lisle Atkinson, Johnny O'Neal, Aaron Graves, Bootsie Barnes, Buck Hill, Rodney Whitaker, Danny Mixon, Buddy Williams, Fred Hughes, Nasar Abadey, Mike Bowie, Bob Butta, Amy Shook, Frank Russo, Steve Novosel, Barbara Morrison, Greg Bufford, Ronnie Wells, Ron Elliston, Ricky Loza, Hod O'brien, Paul Wingo, Chuck Redd, Robert Redd, Luis Hernandez, John Jensen, Frankie Addison, Ron Compton, Wade Beech, James "The Tex" King, Nadine Rae, Wes Biles, Vince Smith, Cheyney Thomas, Alfredo Mojica, Jr., Janelle Gill, Chris Grasso, Pepe Gonzalez, Mickey Roker, and Keith Killgo.
+ In 2002 Chad performed for the great Lionel Hampton in Washington D.C. at the Rayburn House Office Building hosted in part by the Honorable Congressman John Conyers. Chad first appeared at the FMSJ East Coast Jazz Festival in 2000, performing a tribute for jazz great and vocalist extraordinaire, Ernie Andrews. Chad was introduced to Mr. Andrews by his teacher and mentor, Ronnie Wells, another extraordinary vocalist. Throughout his musical journey, Chad has taken inspiration from these two vocalists. Other artists he counts among his influences include but are not limited to Johnny Hartman, Johnny Mathis, Little Jimmy Scott, Billy Eckstine, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra.
Join us for LIVE JAZZ for a cool and swinging evening of great music and Italian cuisine! We offer the best jazz at the most intimate jazz venue in all of the Washington metropolitan area.
Ample free parking and easy access to the Silver Spring metro. We are located about 7 blocks from the metro and are localted on Sligo Avenue just off of Georgia Avenue in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.
You can now buy tickets online! Applicable Fees may apply. However, you may still reserve tickets by simply calling 202-670-0095 or 240-704-9916
