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Paul Vornhagen Jazz

Michigan Jazz.   Jazz saxophone, flute and vocals. If you like straight-ahead jazz standards, originals,
bebop, latin-cubano jazz, bossa-nova/samba and some vocal ballads, you will like my music!! I am talking about Monk, Ellington, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Mann, Wayne Shorter, to name a few. MEDIA QUOTES: "Gutsy sax....sensuous flute...and vocals, smooth as silk" --JAZZ TIMES "Great tone on the soprano sax...top notch composer" --CADENCE "..his tenor sax is robust, yet warm with the heart of a romantic"---DETROIT JAZZ

I can perform SOLO w/recorded tracks,  DUO w/keyboard, TRIO adding the bass,  QUARTET adding drums or QUINTET adding a trumpet.  Jazz clubs, concerts, festivals, restaurants, private parties, weddings.....any event that requires music.   Never too loud or obtrusive.   Just the very finest professional presentation.  

 I am also performing with a Latin-Jazz group called TUMBAO BRAVO, that I formed in the fall of 2003 with co-leader and conga player, Alberto Nacif. We perform authentic cuban polyrthymns including mambos, cha chas, rhumba, boleros, danzon all based on the cuban montuno. Many of the songs are originals written by band members which also includes Sven Anderson on piano, Javier Barrios on timables, John Barron on bass and Bob Mojica or Paul Finkbeiner on trumpet. Our debut CD was released in July of 2004 called MONTUNO SALAD on PKO Records.


TUMBAO!  won the 2005 Detroit Music Award for OUTSTANDING JAZZ RECORDING !   We were also nominated for the 2006 Best Contemporary Jazz Group.  Checkout the website for schedule, sound bites, etc  www.tumbaobravo.com

As of March 2006, TUMBAO will be known as TUMBAO BRAVO for trademark purposes.

 Our second album, Amigos: From Our Hands, has been released and is available at www.cdbaby.com or pvornhagen@aol.com  Fifteen original compositions !

TUMBAO BRAVO has won the 2007 Detroit Music Award in the OUTSTANDING WORLD MUSIC CATEGORY for our CD Amigos: From Our Hands !

TUMBAO BRAVO'S  3rd CD, Un Systema Para Todo, will be released this June featuring our new pianist, Wesley Reynoso and new bassist, Pat Prouty. Eleven original compositions !

 

_ _ Performance Schedule_ _

 

July 5:  ANN ARBOR PUBLIC LIBARY  Traverwood Branch 2-3pm

July 5:  TOP OF THE PARK w/Tumbao Bravo Rackham Bldg U or M campus Ann Arbor 7-8:30pm

July 8:  MOTOR CITY CASINO  Detroit 4-7:30pm

July 13:  THE BLISSFEST  w/Tumbao Bravo  Harbor Springs, MI  1-6pm

July 15:  DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY Cass Ave Detroit w/tumbao bravo 6-8PM

July 16:  LINDEN COUNTY PARK -CLOVER BEACH  Flint w/Tumbao Bravo 7-8:30pm

July 19: BIRMINGHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL  Chene Park Birmingham, MI  1-2pm

July 20:  MICHIGAN JAZZ FESTIVAL  Schoolcraft College Livonia w/ Tumbao Bravo  12:15-1:15PM

July 24;  LIBERTY PLAZA Ann Arbor w/Tumbao Bravo 12-2pm

July 25:  Private party

July 26:  THE VERNIER  8822 Vernier Rd  Fair Haven, MI  7-11pm

July 31:  TOLEDO BOTANICAL GARDENS  Toledo w/Tumbao Bravo 7-8:30pm

August 1: RIVERFOLK FESTIVAL  Carr Park Manchester 7-8:30pm w/Tumbao Bravo

August 2;  RIVERFOLK FESTIVAL  Carr Park Manchester  4:30-6PM  w/Tumbao Bravo

August 6:  CATAWBA ISLAND, OH  6:30-8:30pm  w/tumbao bravo

August 9:  BAKER'S KEYBOARD LOUNGE  Detroit 9:30pm

August 15:  EAGLE EYE CC  Bath, MI  5-8pm   PRIVATE

August 22:  KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE  Ann Arbor  w/Tumbao Bravo 8pm

September 4:  HESS HATHAWAY PARK Waterford Twp 7-8pm

September 12:  THE BOX FACTORY w/Tumbao Bravo St. Joseph, MI  7:30pm

September 27:  CLIFF BELLS  Detroit  9:30pm

 October 4:  INSIDE OUT GALLERY  w/Tumbao Bravo  Traverse City 8pm

November 8:  DUNCAN, OKLAHOMA  Civic Center Concert  7pm  w/tumbao bravo