Jazz Cafe Detroit

Victor Goines at Jazz Cafe

October 27, 2008

Laconic yet agile, serious yet playful, studied and still hip, Victor Goines creates straight-ahead jazz that neither kowtows to fads nor buckles under the weight of tradition.
-Times-Picayune on Victor Goines

Jazz Café at Music Hall is extremely proud to present The Victor Goines Quartet for 4 performances, Friday, November 28th and Saturday, November 29th at 10 PM and Midnight each night.

New Orleans native Victor Goines, a saxophonist/clarinetist has been a Wynton Marsalis sideman for years, performing on many of his 1990’s albums including, “Unforgivable Blackness” and “Joe Cool’s Blues”, comes to Detroit with his latest incarnation of The Victor Goines Quartet for two nights, Friday and Saturday, November 28th and 29th at 10PM and Midnight. Goines is also an educator who has taught Jazz Studies and Mathematics as well as performing with many of the greatest names in Jazz like, Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton , or Rock royal ,Bob Dylan and musical hybrid, Lenny Kravitz- not to mention Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles who are a quick six on the Goines collaborative short list.
Goines is renown for his woodwind versatility on various saxophones and on the clarinet which he plays with almost mathematical precision, displaying a phrasing that seems to ethereally float over the rhythm section.

Goines was born in 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana and is currently lives in Fayetteville, Georgia. He often travels to New Orleans to perform and teach and was formerly a mathematics instructor at St. Augustine High School, an Adjunct Professor at Xavier University and a member of the faculties of Loyola University and the University of New Orleans. He joined Wynton Marsalis’ Septet in the fall of 1993 and toured with the band through the fall of 1994. Mr. Goines performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the 1999 Grammy Awards, with Wynton Marsalis’ group accompanying the Alvin Ailey Dance Company at the debut of Mr. Marsalis’ piece Sweet Release, toured nationally with Marcus Roberts and The Academy Of The Ascension as well as toured nationally and internationally with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

Goines is currently the Director of Jazz Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as well as an Education Consultant for Jazz at Lincoln Center.
During his career Mr. Goines has also performed with Terence Blanchard, Bo Diddley, Freddie Hubbard, Branford Marsalis, Freddie Green, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, The Temptations, The Four Tops, and many others.

Victor Goines has also recorded the scores for the motion pictures, Undercover Blues, When Night Falls On Manhattan and Rosewood, for the television production of Moonlight Over Miami and The Big Easy (USA Cable Network, 1996)

The Victor Goines Quartet: Victor Goines, Saxophones, Reggie Thomas, piano, Rodney Whitaker, bass, and Herlin “Homey” Riley on drums.
(Bios upon request)

More on Victor Goines may be found here: http://victorgoines.com/biography.htm

Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door and are available at The Music Hall Box Office or at Ticketmaster.com.

Jazz Café at Music Hall
350 Madison
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 887-8500
www.musichall.org
www.jazzcafedetroit.com

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