DOORS @6PM/8:30PM, SHOWTIME @7PM/8:45PM

Cliff Monear is a consummate professional jazz pianist. His performance resumé includes venues worldwide, with artists worldwide. His YouTube channel features solo and group performances that spotlight wonderful jazz and classical artists from coast to coast. He is a faculty member at Wayne State University and is the leading sales consultant for the Steinway & Sons, Michigan and northern Ohio region.

“Monear’s breathy ideas leave lots of space, girding the music with exquisite tension. What gives the music personality is Monear’s suave touch, relaxed swing, fresh melodic and harmonic turns and the unpretentious way he draws on familiar influences.” Mark Stryker, Free Press Music Critic.

Miguel Gutierrez is a wonderfully dynamic percussionist and teacher whose “magic touch” and ability to move with ease into different performance styles can mesmerize the listener. His extensive rhythmic training, musical sensitivity, and immense love for his art form is displayed through each unique instrument in his vast collection of percussion instruments. As the owner and founder of “Professional Drum & Percussion Studies”, Miguel has taught percussion instruments for more than 30 years and is a leading performer and clinician.

Together, these musicians take familiar jazz, latin, and classical themes, and make them as unique as the day on which they will be performed—always offering a wonderfully intricate and improvised musical experience.

THE BAND:

Cliff Monear —Piano

Miguel Guttierez—Percussion