September 25
Modern Oklahoma Jazz Orchestra
The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame welcomes the Modern Oklahoma Jazz Orchestra led by Dr. Michael Moore back to the Jazz Depot stage.
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October 9
Sandy Gardner: Reprise
The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame welcomes Sandy Gardner to the Jazz Depot stage in her concert, Reprise.
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Eicher Wednesdays
Every Wednesday
The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame presents Shelby Eicher’s Wednesday Night Spotlight alongside Nathan Eicher and special guests.
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Depot Jams
Jazz/Blues Jams at the Depot
FREE every Tuesday from 6:00pm-10:00pm.
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Jazzwich
Live Music during Lunch
Join us every Friday for Jazzwich! Bring a brown bag or visit one of the variety of food trucks for lunch and enjoy some incredible jazz, featuring Jordan Hehl, Nicholas Foster, and John Mullinax on guitar. 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. Free!
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Dr. Joey Crutcher
Featured Inductee
Tulsan Joey Hobart Crutcher has a biography that sounds like a “Who’s Who” in music, despite the fact some music teachers tried to discourage his early devotion to gospel. Crutcher’s mother reported that when the delivery men brought a piano to their home, he showed versatility when he sat down and played “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”
It was Rev. John Henry Johnson and Don O’Banner who had an outside influence on Crutcher’s development of his dynamic gospel style. In school, Crutcher was pianist for the Boys Glee Club. During his stint in the Army, he was the chapel organist. After the military, he came back to Tulsa and attended Tulsa Junior College, Oklahoma Business College, and the Oklahoma School of Religion, where he studied church music.
In 1970, he joined musical forces by marrying his childhood sweetheart, Leanna Johnson. The couple had four children and specialized in building mass choirs and helping churches build quality music programs. A family dedicated to serving both gospel music and their community, the Crutchers are widely renowned for their musical influence and commitment to helping others.
Among his many musical obligations, Crutcher has found time to be Minister of Music for the New Heights Christian Center, the director for Love Connection Community Singers, Music Director for the Gospel Music Workshop of America, Music Coordinator at the University of Tulsa for the Unlimited Gospel Choir, and to be a musician for the Liberty Baptist Church.
Crutcher was born in Tulsa, December 11, 1947.
D.C. Minner was born January 28, 1935. He was raised in Rentiesville by his grand mother, Lura Drennan, who ran a corn whiskey house while he grew up. “There was no electricity anywhere around, so she would have the guys come over with their acoustic guitars. That was my first time hearing live music.” said Minner.
Minner moved away when he joined the service. After he returned, he took up bass and worked out of Oklahoma City with Larry Johnson and the New Breeds. With this band, he performed behind O. V. Wright, Freddie King, Chuck Berry, Eddie Floyd, Bo Diddley and many more.
He moved to California in the late ’60s and had a band with Tony Mathews in Hollywood. Then he moved to the bay area, retired from bass, studied Yogananda, took up guitar and ran into his future wife, Selby. She was playing acoustic guitar and singing blues at clubs in Berkeley and San Francisco. With a desire to learn the electric bass, Selby became D.C.’s apprentice, and they left the bay area in 1977.
D.C., Selby and Blues on the Move toured non-stop for 12 years, and then returned to D.C.’s home place. They re-opened the Cozy Corner as the Down Home Blues Club in 1988, and it quickly became an after hours club. In 1991,
the Minners founded the Dusk ’til Dawn Blues Festival as a way to bring their fans and musician friends together from across the country.
The couple has received the Handy in Blues Education award, for their Blues in the Schools work, the Keeping the Blues Alive Award and in 1999 Minner was also inducted into The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. However, his proudest accomplishment was having his hometown rename part of the road that runs alongside the club in his honor. D.C. and Selby currently reside in Rentiesville, Okla., on D.C. Minner Street.
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Air Force Band's Oklahoma Tour Hits the Jazz Depot
TULSA, MARCH 30, 2016 - There are many ways to serve in the U.S. Air Force. Some don uniforms on aircraft carriers and flight jumpsuits in jet cockpits. Everyone has a specialty.
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Dimensions In Blue, the big band jazz ensemble from the U.S. Air Force Band of the West, will tour Oklahoma in March and April. The performances are family-friendly and open to the public, free of charge.
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Dimensions in Blue, the big band jazz ensemble from the United States Air Force Band of the West, will present a concert at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame on April 1st, 2016 at 7:00 pm. The performance is family-friendly and open to the public, free of charge.
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