Richmond Jazz Society features Butterbean Jazz Quartet
Tomorrow night, the Richmond Jazz Society’s Guest Educators Series will feature local favorite The Butterbean Jazz Quartet. The group has been perfect Sunday night entertainment for years now at Bottoms Up Pizza and their current roster is a great one, having released a CD in 2009. Says RJS about the group: The Butterbean Jazz Quartet […]
Tomorrow night, the Richmond Jazz Society’s Guest Educators Series will feature local favorite The Butterbean Jazz Quartet. The group has been perfect Sunday night entertainment for years now at Bottoms Up Pizza and their current roster is a great one, having released a CD in 2009. Says RJS about the group:
The Butterbean Jazz Quartet was formed in 1991 by saxophonists Zip Irvin, John Winn, and singer, Jim Dudley. They began performing on Sunday evenings at Bottom’s Up Pizza in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom, a gig that has now lasted for nearly 16 years. Members of the quartet have changed, but the music has remained first-rate. The current line-up features Lee Covington (piano), Terri Simpson (vocals), Rusty Farmer (acoustic bass), and Keith Willingham (drums/trumpet). Terri, Lee, and Rusty are alum of Virginia Commonwealth University with Bachelor of Music degrees in Jazz Studies; Keith is a graduate of Virginia Union University. Each musician has performed with groups throughout the region or as leaders of their own ensemble. In October 2008 vocalist Terri Simpson, who is also a keyboardist, received Richmond Magazine’s prestigious Theresa Pollack Award for excellence in the arts. The quartet will be joined by special guests John Conley on guitar and Kevin Simpson on tenor/soprano sax. Copies of their CDs will be available.
The Guest Educators Series takes place monthly at the Capital Ale House Downtown Music Hall and is a wonderful event for jazz lovers in Richmond. In the past year, RJS has brought in great talents like Nat Reeves, Eve Cornelious, Freddie Cole, Jay Hoggard, Larry Willis, Tom Browne, and Richmond-based musicians and groups like Kevin Davis, VCU Jazz Masters, Richmond native Al Foster, and now Butterbean Jazz Quartet.
View event details or visit Richmond Jazz Society on the web at vajazz.org
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