Events

Rosemarie Wilson a.k.a. One Single Rose®️ is an award-winning poet, playwright, and singer/songwriter.

Alex Anest is a guitarist, teacher, and bandleader currently based in Southeast Michigan focusing on improvisation, groove, & creativity.

Canadian award-winning trumpeter, singer, and songwriter, Bria Skonberg, is considered “one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation."

Ellen Rowe is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. She is currently a Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan.

Don Hicks, proprietor of the Blue LLama Jazz Club, and friends feature an evening of inspired jazz standards.

Tatiana Eva-Marie is a multidisciplinary artist who performs on tour worldwide in different formations and lives between Paris and New York City.

Anthony Stanco, a trumpet virtuoso from Southeast Michigan, draws deeply from Detroit's rich musical heritage.

The Mercer Patterson Quintet is a contemporary jazz ensemble originating in the Metro-Detroit area.

New Nostalgia is a Chicago-based fusion horn band, blending jazz, pop and rock flavors together in hard-hitting instrumental ensemble arrangements

Pamela Wise is an awarding jazz pianist, musician and composer.

Alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins grew up in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.

Nick has assembled a large repertoire of high energy, hard-swinging original arrangements and compositions, including seldom played tunes.

Lisa Sung is an award-winning jazz educator and performer who received the highest artistic development award, the John Sites Jazz Award, in 2022.

Randy Napoleon is a performer, recording artist, arranger, and educator. Currently an Associate Professor at Michigan State University.

GRAMMY award-winning Linda May Han Oh is a bassist/composer who has performed and recorded with a variety of heralded artists.

Laura-Simone is a standout 20-year-old jazz bassist and vocalist who has performed on world-renowned stages including Carnegie Hall,

Sunny Wilkinson brings a tremendous range of aesthetic skills, primarily from the jazz idiom, but exploratory of the Great American songbook.

Gwenyth Hayes, a bassist, song stylist, vocalist, and recording artist hailing from Ann Arbor, captivates audiences throughout the Metro Detroit area with her distinctive performances.

Sean Dobbins got his start as sought-after Detroit area jazz sideman at a young age, when he would regularly play with Blue Note artist Louis Smith.

Joan Belgrave, is a two-time Grammy considered vocalist, songwriter, and a music & film producer performing at the Blue LLama on March 28.

Paul VornHagen is an accomplished jazz saxophonist, flutist, and vocalist who has won Detroit Music Awards on six separate occasions.

Ari and Cecil Alexander’s decade long musical collaboration has been brought to stages across the world such as the Lincoln Center and the Copenhagen jazz festival.

Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet present original composition and traditional tunes from around the world at one of Michigan's finest music venues.

Rodney T. Whitaker is an internationally renowned Mack Avenue recording artist, jazz bassist, professor of jazz double bass, director of Jazz Studies.

9-time Grammy nominee, Tierney Sutton has received a “Best Jazz Vocal Album” Grammy nod for every project she has released in the last decade.

The Triumvirate is an Ann Arbor based group featuring drummer Alex Sherk, bassist Desmond Lorenz, and pianist Zach Michalec.