EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE ALLUVION
Doors open at 5:30pm. Music at 6.
$1-20 honor cover at the door
Enjoy the best live jazz in town, live painting, and of course the one-of-kind cool atmosphere of The Alluvion. Food and drinks available at the bar.
The band: Jeff Haas on piano, Jack Dryden on bass, and Randy Marsh on drums, with Laurie Sears on saxophone.
The art: Witness the incredible live painting art of Lisa Flahive. Lisa paints portraits of the musicians live onstage with the band!
About the artists:
JEFF HAAS learned to crawl in the organ loft of Temple Israel in Detroit, listening to his dad play. He grew up surrounded by classical cats rehearsing chamber music with his dad, Karl Haas. At five, he was at the piano under his dad’s watchful eye. In his early teens, Jeff stumbled upon his first live Motown review (Marvin, Martha, The Temps, Four Tops, Supremes and Little Stevie Wonder) at the MI State Fair. He had gone rogue. The Motown music scene became Jeff’s playground, hanging out at the Grande Ballroom, Easttown and the back door of Bakers Keyboard Lounge, where Jeff could catch the jazz vibe even though he wasn’t old enough to get in.
A bazillion hours at the piano and thousands of gigs later, Jeff is a northern MI jazz staple, performing for decades with his trio and a hosts of jazz legends. Jeff is an extraordinary composer who tends to play by his own rules, challenging traditional forms, melody structures and genre blends. His compositional voice organically blends his passion for jazz, R&B, classical and Judaic music. Jeff is the founder and artistic director for the award winning educational outreach program, Building Bridges with Music.
LISA FLAHIVE is most widely known for her expressive drawings and watercolors of jazz musicians, created live, in the moment, on the bandstand. This allows her to improvise, react, and communicate with the musicians. She chooses watermedia because it reflects the life of the music and must be created boldly, in the moment.
Lisa paints what inspires her, such as cafes or chefs in the kitchen. She also loves to capture the energy of a city in her vibrant street scenes, and paints many en plein air, at night. Lisa is the artist in residence for Chateau Chantal Winery in Traverse City, MI and paints live on the bandstand every Thursday during their popular Jazz at Sunset series.
