Gina D'Onofrio May 12, 2010
Los Angeles, California 90038
Dolores Petersen Presents: @ "new venue!" Duna Csárda
Hungarian Cuisine - Wine & Beer
(on Melrose, just west of Vine, south side of street)
FREE parking across the street at Pavilions (permission has been given for 2 hours) or ample street parking.
Venue Reservations: 323 962-6434 (recommended)
Appetizers - Cocktails 7:00pm
Dinner Show 8:00pm
Featured Artist:
Gina D'Onofrio - vocal
Born Italian-Australian and raised in a culturally diverse Sydney, Australia, Gina's early musical experiences were rich and varied. Touring throughout Australia and New Zealand performing in musical productions, Ms. D'Onofrio received excellent training in complex harmony and performance discipline. She's performed in many musical genres ranging from Italian pop music, Brazilian Jazz, Rhythm & Blues and finally, her latest and most heart-felt...Jazz. She is a beautiful chanteuse who prefers to sing the standards. Her command of the complex rhythms and melodies along with her expert interpretation of witty and poignant lyrics make this songbird special.
Personnel:
Eddy Olivieri - piano
After the studies and various local experiences, included some jazz festival in Bariums, C#lecce, Foggia, study enters in the Jazz Orchestra where it exhibits between the other with numerous musicians Americans which Lee Konitz, Lew Tabackin, Benny Bailey, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dusko Goikovich, Sal Nistico and others. In the same period other musicians call it to Americans in order to play with they in small formations: Steve Grossmann, Jimmy Knepper, same the Chet Baker, Lew Tabackin and Lee Konitz, etc… From Taranto it is moved to Rome in 1990 where Brazilian singer Jim enters in the quintet of the pianista/Port. With this group sound for the inauguration of the Velodromo di Horte for the Olympic Games 1992. Sound and records with the Brazilian bassista Alfredo Paixao, to Verona sound with Toquinho replacing for the evening its pianista indisposta, exhibits in 2 concerts to Rome with the leggendaria Brazilian singer Elsa Soares. In January of the 1994 it is moved in stable plant to Los Angeles where it is exhibited with Frank Larry to the Lunaria's for I pay to Nat King Cole with the drummer Earl Palmer who had played own with Nat King Cole and the bassista James Leary. For 5 years sound the famous After hour Jam Session in 5th street Dick's, one of the historical premises in Leimert Park, the quarter African. In this period it enters in contact with very many musicians assume who it like pianista in their formations. One of they is Gives them Fielder (Sax) with which sound also to the Kristianstadt Jazz Festival in the July of 1997 (Sweden). It resumes the contacts with an old friendship which Billy Higgins before invites that it to play in its premises (The World Stage) and it inserts then it in one of its quartets with which they are exhibited in 1999 to the Jazz Festival of the Valtellina (Sondrio). To the dead women of Higgins to an other old it stablily takes it acquaintance in its trio: the drummer Frank Wilson who for along time had exhibited itself with the organista Jimmy Smith. With this trio the collaboration with Freddie Hubbard begins that hard until death of the musician. At the present moment it is exhibited still with Frank Wilson, he is pianista stable of the group of the singer Cathy Segal Garci'a and pianista of a sestetto is directed from Ira Nepus (Trombone) and Roger Neumann (Sax), both former ones of the Big Band di Woody Herman. Between other experiences not prettamente Jazzistiche Orchestra of the Israeli director Shelly Cohen and then with most numerous band of Blues and R&B has been exhibited for a season with the Pacific Symphonic. Co-it has directed stages to the UCLA with one of the university professors, master Dini Clarke, that he had been director of the choruses of numerous productions in Broadway, between which originates it them West Side Story, before moving itself to Los Angeles.
Bill Markus - bass
The very creative, swaying "Count Bassist" as he's affectionately become known is a local favorite. He's a bassist-composer-teacher-producer. He plays all basses, guitar, cello, and drums. He's mainly in the jazz realm but despise catagorization so, he's, other? A partial list of playing & recording credits include; Dale Fielder, Observatory Symphony, Irvine Valley Symphony, Ledgends of swing big band, Roy Hargrove, Kenny Kirkland, Lew Tabakin, Charles Macpherson, Terance Blanchard, Delfayo Marsalis, John Beasely, Kai Akagi, Jack Nimitz, Doug Webb, Eric Johnson, Kevin Mahogony, Frankie Crawford, Ronald Muldrow, Horace Tapscott, Billy Higgins, Tootie Heath, Sal Marquez, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Anthony Wilson, Jeff Clayton, Nolan Shaheed Smith, Trevor Lawrence Jr & Sr, Nate Morgan, GF Mllely, Joe Gaeta, Willie Jones 2nd & 3rd, Jeff Tain Watts, Carl Randall, Harold Land, Bobby Bradford, Ravi Coltrane, Jerry Gibbs, Dwight Trible, Doug Macdonald, Elliott Caine, Emil Poree, Brian Blade, Phil Upchurch, Kenny Drew jr., Julie Day, Cathy-segal-Garcia, Phylis Battle, Cecilia Coleman, Steve Huffsteder, Donald Vega, Zane Musa, Sandra Booker, Tierney Sutton, Larry Koontz, John Pisano, Justo Almario, Javier Vergara, Greg Kurstin, Mike Telesmanick, Jay Migliori, Frank Strazzeri, Sweet baby Jai, Joe Labarbera, D.J Bonebrake, Joe Travers, Yogi Lonich, Karen Hernandez, Tony Dumas, Fritz Wise, Serge Kasimoff, Dini Clarke, Dolores Petersen and so on...
Mindful dinner show etiquette & courtesy required during performances. Space permitting, valued venue diners & bar only patrons are requested to support TIPS. (15-20% minimum entertainment gratuity suggested)
NO audio or video recording. Limited flash photography, may be prohibited during performances. All cell phone ringers must be turned-off.
E-mail: [email protected]
Info #: 323 632-1640
Added by DojO on May 3, 2010