DOORS 4PM | SHOW 5:01-6:10PM
Rick Roe and Sarah D’Angelo have loved making music together since the first moment they shared a stage. Whether it’s in a larger ensemble or within the intimacy of the duo, they truly enjoy the connection, interplay and discovery inside one anothers musicianship and expression. They recently recorded an album together titled You Are There that is scheduled for a soon-to-be-announced release! Whether they are playing inside the levity of a Disney tune or exploring the Great American songbook or riding the lines of Bebop, you are certain to enjoy a night of joyful music.
Rick Roe is a jazz pianist, composer, performer, and educator in the southeastern Michigan music community. He has produced and co-produced twelve recordings with original compositions and jazz classics with some of the most accomplished jazz musicians in the world. Monkʼs Modern Music, Rickʼs first recording on his RNR Unknown Records label, has become highly regarded by many jazz greats around the world. It features Rodney Whitaker and Greg Hutchinson. His subsequent recordings have also received praise for his compositions and arrangements of jazz classics and popular culture hits.
He has also worked with dancer and choreographer Sara Randazzo as musical director for her tap dance company Sole Full of Rhythm for over 25 years with many great performances to jazz classics and Rickʼs music. Rick has performed with jazz greats Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Belgrave, Frank Morgan, Louis Hayes, Clark Terry, Louis Smith, Rodney Whitaker, Donald Walden, Greg Hutchinson, Karriem Riggins, Robert Hurst, Buster Williams, Wycliffe Gordon, Wess Anderson, Randy Gelispie, Michael Dease, Gerald Cleaver, Joe Magnarelli, Joe Farnsworth, James Carter, Jim Snidero, Randy Napoleon, and many more.
Sarah D’Angelo is an active Detroit based multi-genre singer and clarinetist. Moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan to pursue her post graduate classical studies, D’Angelo was lit on fire by the Detroit jazz, funk and gospel she was experiencing. Continuing her studies, she experimented with singing and found an exhilarating freedom of musical expression in jazz, blues, gospel and pop. She has since been singing, playing, writing and recording in and around Detroit and around the US ever since.
She performs regularly with an array of local artists and also leads her own trio and quintet with whom she has most recently recorded her first solo album, Medicine Man. D’Angelo has been featured on many albums as a singer, clarinetist, composer and lyricist. While she is based in Detroit, she performs at festivals and venues locally and nationally with jazz artists including Randy Napolean, Jim Martinez, Will Matthews (Count Basie Orchestra), Cleave Guyton Jr. (Duke Ellington Orchestra) and has sung and played alongside Cecile McClorin Salvant, John Pizzarelli, Anat Cohen and Paquito D’Rivera and more.
Sarah genuinely likes to have a musical and personal connection with her audiences and band mates, bringing her personality and ideologies into careful interpretations of the music. Often choosing to highlight the compositions/arrangements of her favorite jazz, fusion and funk artists such as Esperanza Spalding, Stevie Wonder and Cecile McLorin Salvant she likes to bring fresh ideas to the stage to delight and inspire her listeners.
“Sarah D’Angelo is an artist in the total sense of the word. With perfect pitch, a keen sense of melody and her tasteful arrangement skills she is a triple threat you, no doubt. This vocalist’s style is lush and intimate, with vibrancy and attention to nuanced phrasing that is impeccable.“ Eric Harabadian, Aoide Magazine