Bobby Kapp Trio with Joan Yonkler, jazz vocals Dinner Show Fridays 6pm
Drummer and vocalist Bobby Kapp, a New Jersey native, was a seminal figure in the 1960s on the New York City jazz scene, recording and performing with legendary saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Archie Shepp, among other jazz greats. He is the recipient of a 4½-star review in Downbeat. Jazz singer Joan Yonkler has performed at Blues Alley in Washington, DC, Bethesda Jazz and Blues Club in Maryland, and at clubs in Rome, New York, and Mexico City. Kapp’s jazz trio features Patricio Méndez on keys and David Barrera Osornio on bass.
Reservation tickets can be acquired at no charge, and are highly encouraged, as the seating capacity is about 40. Click below for the Boleto City reservation page, and select the number of tickets required at checkout. Your name(s) will be placed on an attendance list. Cover charge at the door is $350 MX, and there is a minimum food and drink consumption of $350 MX per person. You can also reserve at the restaurant, or by phone: (52) 415 154 9655.
Bobby Kapp / Robert Kaplan, from Highland Park, New Jersey, was unloading tires from a tractor-trailer one day when he decided to leave home. With a school mate's old Dodge and a silver sparkle Ludwig drum kit, he was off to the Catskill Mountains to make a gig. Then he became the blues in Parkersburg, West Virginia, school music at Berklee in Boston, life music on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and how to use a piece of rope as an emergency fan belt on a VW in Mexico, which is called improvising.
One observer remarked, "The only musician I know who has gone from playing drums on some of world's most abstract music (on records with Marion Brown, Dave Burrell, Noah Howard and Gato Barbieri), drumming and singing with Dexter Gordon in Mexico, to placing in the top ten finalists of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition, and world tours with bassist Gene Perla and the Fine Wine Trio. Some jazz magazine should pick up on this guy's story by now."
Anyway, Robert became Bobby, who says, "Best of luck on everybody's transitions out there. You know, there is always a new song to be sung, everywhere."
