The Brian Felix Organ Trio brings the church to the cocktail lounge on October 27th, with special guest Will Boyd turning sacred fire into sound. Felix's fingers conjure Jimmy Smith's ghost through drawbars and Leslie speakers, walking bass lines with his left hand that make upright players weep with envy while his right hand preaches the gospel according to groove. Behind him, Evan Martin's drums don't just keep time—they tell stories, whispering and roaring in perfect collaboration. Dr. Tim Fischer brings that rare fusion of doctoral precision and street-level swagger, where European sophistication collides beautifully with American blues DNA.
Then there's Will Boyd, carrying the lineage from Orangeburg church pews to Japanese concert halls, his saxophone speaking that ancient language where Eddie Harris meets Hank Crawford, where soul isn't a style but a requirement. This isn't background music for your Monday night—this is spiritual transportation disguised as entertainment, where the floor becomes congregation and every note is testimony.
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When Brian Felix sits behind a Hammond B3, gospel church pews start swaying in jazz clubs, and cocktail lounges suddenly feel like revival meetings where the only salvation comes through swing. As the beating heart of the Brian Felix Organ Trio, Felix doesn't just play organ—he channels the entire history of American soul through drawbars and Leslie speakers, creating sonic sanctuaries where Jimmy Smith's bebop athleticism meets Jimmy McGriff's bluesy gravitas. His left hand walks bass lines...
Dr. Tim Fischer exists in that rarified space where USC doctoral precision meets street-level groove, where European touring experience fuses with American jazz DNA to create something entirely his own. This guitarist-composer-educator doesn't just play jazz fusion—he reimagines what happens when classical technique meets electronic experimentation, when rock energy collides with bebop sophistication. From Los Angeles studios to St. Louis classrooms to his current faculty position at Coastal...
In Asheville's Monday night jazz ecosystem, Evan Martin represents the rare breed of drummer who understands that sensitivity and power aren't opposites—they're dance partners. As a cornerstone of the local scene, Martin has mastered the art of musical telepathy, reading room dynamics and bandmate intentions with the precision of a master craftsman who knows exactly when to whisper and when to roar. His kit becomes a conversation partner rather than a time machine, responding to melodic...
The house in Orangeburg, South Carolina, was a frequency spectrum unto itself. The Isley Brothers and the Manhattan Transfer and Dolly Parton and Mozart — all of it moving through the same rooms, all of it landing in the ears of a kid from Queens, New York, who had been transplanted to the Lowcountry and was trying to figure out which signal to lock onto. His mother had graduated from Jamaica High School of the Performing Arts, and she made sure Will and his siblings sang. Gospel was the...
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