Flyover Quintet

Wed, Apr 09

DOORS 6PM | SHOW 7PM - 8PM DOORS 8:30PM | SHOW 8:45PM - 9:45PM $75 seats pre-pay the cover and a $55 credit for any items on the dinner menu. $40 seats pre-pay the cover and a $20 credit toward your bill. (18% gratuity added at checkout under "taxes & fees") Mike Wade-trumpet Andrew Bishop-saxophone Rick Roe-piano Glenn Holmes-Bass Nate Winn-Drums FLYOVER QUINTET feat. Andrew Bishop, Mike Wade & Glen Holmes Mike Wade began playing trumpet in his pre teen years. While attending the Duke Ellington School of Arts in Washington, D.C., he received a National Symphony Fellowship to study with symphony trumpeters. He attended Howard University for one year before transferring to Central State University on full scholarship, where he received his bachelor’s in music education. He is no stranger to the titles of producer, composer, arranger, and educator. He is also the founder and leader of the Standard Time Quintet, Mike Wade & The Jazz Mafia, and the Mike Wade Reality Band. During his career he has been named one of the top ten unsigned jazz, brass players as rated by Jazziz Magazine (1997). His composition, “Blues for Shorty Bop”, was chosen for inclusion on Jazziz on Disc collection. He has performed and/or recorded with such artists as David “Fathead” Newman, Clark Terry, Javon Jackson, Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz, Mulgrew Miller, Rene Marie, Don Braden, Steve Wilson, Othello Molineaux, Vincent Herring, Jon Hendricks & Annie Ross, Winard & Phillip Harper, Antoine Roney, Herb Jeffries, Craig Bailey, Billy Hart, Marc Cary, Bill Lee, Ricky Wellman, Bootsy Collins, Reggie Calloway, Teddy Pendergrass, The O’Jays, Maurice, Freddie, and Verdine White (Earth, Wind and Fire), Tom Tom 84, and Experience Unlimited (E.U.). He has performed on Black Entertainment Television (BET) Jazz Discovery show, and WOSU Jazz Voices television series. With either his quartet or quintet he has performed at the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards show (2000), Cincinnati Cammy Awards show (1997), the Columbus Jazz and Rib Fest, the Charleston Jazz Festival, and the Frog Island Festival. Mike’s quintet, Standard Time, was the 1997 winner of the Cincinnati Cammy award for Best Small Jazz Group. With the Mike Wade Reality Band he has opened (2003) for the smooth jazz group BWB (Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum, Norman Brown). With the Famous American Trumpet Section (F.A.T.S.) he performed at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Denver, CO (2004). With the Mike Wade Sextet he has opened (2005) for the renowned San Francisco Jazz Collective. Mike became a member of the R & B Supergroup CAMEO in (2016- present). Mike entered into The 2023 CIncinnati Jazz Hall of Fame last year. Andrew Bishop is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, scholar, and educator comfortable in many musical idioms. He maintains an international career and serves as a Professor and Chair of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Andrew Bishop’s three recordings as a leader, De Profundis, Time and Imaginary Time and the Hank Williams Project received widespread acclaim from the New York Times, Downbeat Magazine, the Chicago Reader, All Music Guide, Cadence Magazine, All About Jazz-New York, All About Jazz-Los Angeles, The New York Jazz Record, Stereophile Magazine, and the Detroit Free Press, among others. Elliot Simon of the New York Jazz Record recently wrote: “De Profundis impresses with its astute combination of musicianship, spirituality and compositional insight.” Furthermore, De Profundis received a “Record of the Year (Honorable Mention)” by the New York Jazz Record in 2015. He leads a variety of his own projects. He has performed with an array of settings and artists and has performed and forged important musical relationships with artists including Geri Allen, Lucian Ban, Dave Ballou, Karl Berger, Kenny Burrell, Terri Lyne Carrington, Ray Charles, Gerald Cleaver, Kris Davis, Marty Ehrlich, Michael Formanek, Robert Hurst, Chris Lightcap, Mat Maneri, Tony Malaby, Mario Pavone, Tom Rainey, Hank Roberts, Jacob Sacks, Angelica Sanchez, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Clark Terry, and Matt Wilson among others. He has recorded over 50 recordings as a side-musician. As a composer and arranger, he has received numerous commissions, residencies, and awards from the ASCAP, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Andrew W. Melon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a nomination from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He earned five degrees in music including a D.M.A. in music composition from the University of Michigan. A dedicated and committed teacher, Bishop was twice the recipient of the Arthur Anderson Professor of the Year Award, the Joyce G. Ferguson Faculty Development Grant for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2021 Harold Haugh Award for excellence in studio teaching. He is a Conn-Selmer and Vandoren artist. Glenn Holmes is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. B.A. in String Bass/Theory from Miami University (Ohio): M.M. Theory/Composition from Wichita State University. Glenn has performed as a guest soloist both in the classical and jazz idioms. He is a former member of the Wichita Symphony and a published composer. A past member of the Jazz Faculty of The Wichita State, Friends University and Cleveland State University. Performances have been with Benny Golson, Sean Jones, Doc Cheatum, Earl Warren, Jerry Hahn, Richie Cole, Charlie Rouse, Andy Narell, Keith Copeland, Eddie Daniels, Steve Houghton, Don Braden, Joe Williams, Jimmy Heath, Bobby Watson, Frank Mantooth, Dennis Wilson, Benny Bailey, Ignacio Beroa, Uhron Israel, Robin Eubanks, Vanessa Rubin, Antonio Hart, James Newton, Clark Terry, Nancy Wilson, Javon Jackson, Charlie Haden, Russell Malone, Cindy Blackman-Santana, the Jazz Heritage Orchestra and others. Currently, Glenn is working as a freelance bassist. Glenn is on the faculty of The Music School Settlement (Cleveland, OH), where he works with classical and jazz bassist. In addition, at the Music Settlement, Glenn is a member of JAMS (Jazz @ the Music Settlement) faculty. This program develops middle and high school students in the jazz idiom.