OZnewz-THIS Monday,June 10 @8pm and 9:30pm
Omar and Rachel will be special guests with Victor Wooten for the Jazz Festival at the Blue Note!! This All-Star trio will also record several tracks this summer for the new The Trio of OZ projectBlue Note Jazz Festival. The new CD will also feature Solomon Dorsey and other special musicians. To be recorded at the newly completed arts facility at OZmosis Studios!
Good morning all! We are on our way back! On the TTOZ events schedule:
Omar wires up the studio and we start recording in June! Rachel teaches at the New School on Monday&plays with Wayne Escoffrey Tues&Wed@Jazz Standard
Solomon Dorsey finishes his tour with Jose James and records w TTOZ in June
Luques Curtis Check out his websiteperforms Monday with Eddie Palmieri at York College
Goodbye Corsica…see u soon!!!
Thanks
Salem Machine for another great tour!
Corsica…is totally awesome!!Thank you for making us feel so welcome and giving TTOZ 2 encores!!What a great end to the tour!sorry that we sold out of CDs! Plz buy one on CD baby!
wow! Look who we found! Awesome musicians will share the stage tonight with TTOZ! Reggie Washington(bass) with whom Rachel used to play in NYC @55Bar etc and in Steps Ahead! Dave Gilmore(gtr) who Rachel played with on Wayne Shorter’s Highlife CD and tour! The great Jean Lake(drums) here pictured with Omar Hakim, Luques Curtis, and Baltimore trumpeter Ronald Baker!
Reggie Washington
beach sheik Dave Gilmore!!
yay! Should be a fun filled event! What an honor to share the stage with our friends!
Omar,Rachel and Michele Maestracci(the artistic director).
Omar Hakim and Gene Lake! Should be a great night of innovative drummers! Exciting!
thanks to Michele and Roger for making this tour so lovely and fruitful for The Trio of OZ! Tonight will be a nite to remember…stay tuned for a full report!read about the jazz Society here
what a great show!! The perfect end to a great tour!!:-)
Ronald Baker and Luques Curtis sit in with the House band at Les Pamiers!
Photos by Michele Maestracci
Who presented us at the Equinoxe Jazz Festival
This week we traveled to Milano through Budapest via Jerusalem! Check OUT OUR NEW pics and deets!
#omarHakim #rachelzmusic exploring the DUOMO!!
Omar after 2 sets in Chaux de Fonds and a flight and a drive! A beautiful old Brewery In the Swiss Countryside!!
Thanks to Phillipe for
Presenting us!
The gig was beautiful! A quiet initimate gig!
The fans is Budapest were so lovely and kind! The club was a beautiful venue where we were really honored to perform! New FriendsAbound!!
#BlueNoteMilan was awesome as always! Thanks to Daniele Genovese, Nick the Nightfly from Radio Monte Carlo and Roger Salem (Machine) and Digital Brother Paolo Siconalfi we had the best time ever ! We did a radio interview with Nick The Nightfly about our new CD(coming soon) and the the whole show was broadcast via interneton showgoTV as well as on the radio!!
Wow!
The Trio of OZ and Nick the Nightfly and Roger Salem Machine
We are out of the gate! Last night Zappa Club rocked!!! Yay!!Thanks to Guy Dreifuss for presenting us!
read the review here
“If the drummer sucks,the band sucks!”
Dave Grohl
Today #omarhakim is at his drum clinic dropping science at the Doron Giat Drum School!
Music is a conversation ,just show up and play yourself…I risk it all and sometime fu&k up but I leave smiling because I know it was from the heart.”
#omarhakim
“Take the fear out of playing…feel free to make mistakes” Omar Hakim
Rachel Z and Maya, grest person and fashion designer
Guy Dreifuss and Luques Curtis
