Explosive performance

An amazing jazz performance with an explosive finish.

A blast from the past! Shelley Carrol and Brad Leali from 1989

A great old clip from a show called "Gregg's Living Room." Brad and Shelley have different, but complementary styles. This video shows a musical friendship that goes back more than twenty years.

"Honeysuckle Rose"

A jazz standard gets a special treatment from one of our favorite saxophonists.

Another great jazz performance

We're hoping that we can get these guys to sit in someday.

More Shelley Carrol video

Monday nights at the Amsterdam Bar!

Shelley Carrol

Monday nights at the Amsterdam Bar!

The Brad Leali / Shelley Carrol Big Band

Shelley Carrol organizes the Monday night Bad Ass Jazz at the Amsterdam Bar. Brad Leali is Shelley's long-time partner in crime and Brad often sits in at the Amsterdam. Their big band is fantastic and can be seen every month at Sandaga Jazz.

Shelley Carrol: "Inner Urge"

Catch Shelley Monday nights at the Amsterdam Bar!

Bernard Wright

Bernard Wright (born 1963) is an American funk and jazz keyboardist born in Miami, Florida.

Wright was offered a slot touring with Lenny White when he was 13, and he played with Tom Browne at age 16.^[1] GRP Records signed him in 1981 and released his debut LP, 'Nard, tracks from which have been prominently sampled by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Skee-Lo among countless others. He followed with Funky Beat on Arista and Mr. Wright on EMI. The latter of these albums included his biggest R&B hit, "Who Do You Love" for which a video was made. Wright has also appeared on recordings by musicians such as Cameo, Bobby Brown, Pieces of a Dream, Charles Earland, Marcus Miller and Miles Davis.

This video is from Bernard's 1985 hit "Who Do You Love."

Bernard Wright frequently sits in with the jazz players during The Amsterdam Bar's Bad Ass Jazz, every Monday night.

Still Flyin', The Happy Bullets, and Fishboy!

Halloween night at The Amsterdam Bar!

About Still Flyin':

The San Francisco-based supergroup Still Flyin' was assembled in late 2004 by singer/songwriter Sean Rawls. By the time he arrived on the West Coast he was already a veteran of various Athens, GA bands, including Masters of the Hemisphere and Je Suis France. For the latter band, Rawls wrote a reggae song, "Never Gonna Touch the Ground." The song quickly became a live show staple and crowd favorite.

After relocating to San Francisco, the song seemed to have a life of its own and demanded to be jammed. Rawls decided he needed to form a band based on that song and the dream of Still Flyin' was born. He asked virtually everyone he knew in his new city to join the reggae-inspired project, and to everyone's surprise the first practice had fifteen people at it.

What might have begun as a lighthearted nod to good times soon became a juggernaut that no one in the band expected, and before long the group had become a San Francisco phenomenon. It didn’t hurt that this nascent supergroup counts members of bands such as Track Star, Aislers Set, Ladybug Transistor, Love Is All, Maserati, and Red Pony Clock amongst it’s rotating collective.

About The Happy Bullets:

Recording songs that combined a 1960's psychedelic nostalgia with ironic and literate lyrics, The Happy Bullets began when indie songwriters Jason Roberts and Tim Ruble met while working together at an art gallery in a suburb of Dallas. After a home recording demo was released and played on local radio, Roberts quickly recruited his wife, Andrea to learn bass guitar while lending vocal support to several of the bands more pop-oriented songs. Additional members were later added including Josh McKibben of The Sons of Sound, Rhett Jones, and Kris Youmans of The Paper Chase.

2004 saw the release of The Happy Bullets first record, Blue Skies and Umbrellas and was quickly followed up in 2005 with The Vice and Virtue Ministry, engineered by Stuart Sikes (Modest Mouse, Cat Power, the Promise Ring) and released on the upstart Dallas indie label Undeniable Records. The latter gained the band critical acclaim on the national college radio circuit and led to shared bills with Mates of State, Architecture in Helsinki, and Of Montreal.

In 2006, the Happy Bullets toured throughout the United States performing in Austin, Texas at the SXSW Music Festival, Athens, Georgia at the 2006 Athens Popfest, and at CMJ Music Festival in New York City.

About Fishboy:

Fishboy is a four-piece eccentric indie pop band from Denton, TX that began as the bedroom solo project of Eric Michener. He was given the nickname on a middle-school field trip after a dare to pluck and swallow a fish at the Dallas World Aquarium. Six years and several shoe boxes full of cassette tapes later, Michener moved from the suburbs to the Texas rock-and-roll Mecca of Denton with a handful of low-budget recordings released by the close-knit Austin music collective Business Deal Records.

Their third album, Little D, was acclaimed by the Austin Chronicle and Dallas Observer and voted Best Local Band of 2005 by the Dallas Morning News.