hi everybody welcome this capping improv happens on the fourth saturday of every month we've been doing this for a long time and we're going to do our warm up things all right mary you ready to do our warm up thing a david come up and join us we were hurt  they would want to gr tell the audience what it was like yeah we had a play at the after party in a bunch of grammy related events like the person of your party nominee reception party you know was a really great time thank you very much rob it sounds like an awesome awesome thanks jay what about ok so now we're going to first book midnight connections offering simple expressions and deep visualizations of preexistence life nature love and death he works as an engineering scientist yes we need more of those who has been awarded two hundred patents he writes in english to grant english speakers a direct look into the soul of persian poetry he removes the veil of translation he writes for our time and our time yet his poems  thirty off death do not imagine i have any pain to leave this war do not cry for me and do not if you fall into and this is from the point of view of the baby the moment i was pushed into the wa mouth while hiding my tongue i knew all this is not the place i belong i cried my heart  for no reason at all that i could find i just did not like this strange humankind enough to be here it was all out of mind one who pushed me wh my next form is about the cover off my book midnight connection and if you look at this closely you would see a man and a woman in this romantic setting jersey with his privoxy and moving improvisational style dave's debut album a place beyond words offers tasteful sensitive piano improvisations jewish literature melodies the album won a silver medal for outstanding achievement from the global music awards and was listed as one of the organization's top albums for fall of twenty seven team so dave where are you here please come on up welcome to and where i was so glad to have you he that this particular genre has neglected deserves more attention to be paid to it and so as a result i decided to go around you know try and promote the beauty of this so these are things that you might hear in a typical friday night at chabad services you might not saying you would but the good thing about it is that it's instrumental it's all solo piano so chances are if you like music you might enjoy it anyway this song i'm going to play now is called bay another case which is a typical conservative jewish kind of tune  from my next piece i'd like to do a classic what's considered a classic jewish song that everyone who's jewish i would same most of them know by heart very beautiful song called of which means jerusalem of go so this is my version  you i'd like to offer one more song this is also from my album it's a song called it's the last track on my album is called a nazir which my fiance tells me she thinks means like means it comes it's like a table song from from the jews of spain and this particular him show you if i may i just want to show you what i do with it so you can understand  when i do it so this song ok i'll just play it for you so it goes like this so it's a very simple song and when i first heard it i was struck by how it's it's ionian in nature meaning it's basically just on this mode you know major scale right simple enough and so what came to me was  all i could think of was aaron copeland and this kind of thing  and so i decided to when i play this i would infuse it with that little kind of appalachian expensive kind of past oral country kind of big america great you know buffalo everywhere kind of feeling so with that said please enjoy at festivals schools and activists communities struggling for peace and human rights and environmental justice charlene has released two collections of original songs and is currently in the studio recording for the ninety nine her new cd out later this so so honored to be here this is my second time here i was here in twenty fourteen a lot of happened since then i'm now in a studio again with a new album due out later this year and i'll be doing three three songs from the new album and this is the first song called do in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine a young african man in the bronx in new york city was killed by four undercover police officers and this is a story about the divided country seem to be more divided than when i first wrote this and this is a story right out of the daily newspapers just twenty years ago i traveled to seneca falls new york i heard about something called the women's suffrage movement and they were having an anniversary and it was one hundred fifty years since the first women activists had their first woman suffrage conference and i attended and learned the story of how women american women including my own mother got the vote my mother was born in one nine hundred thirty on the lower east side of new york and she was born without the vote so only one generation away how did she get the vote and how was she able to cast that vote many many many times during her lifetime well it took seventy two years of intense struggle lot of courage and fortitude and i was shocked when i learned the story and part of my shock was never having been taught this in school or the years that i spent in classrooms so i eventually wrote a song about it and it's called the woman suffrage song i'd like to do it for you now by the way it  right to speak simply because she was a woman and that is how this whole movement really got started the solacing of a of a woman your voice cannot be allowed said the all male convention crowd this is a public place and a woman millions of women are coming to know that the fate of mother earth the pens on our mobil saxophone the next song i actually did not take totally from the newspapers i actually experienced it it was the one and only time i down there i've never seen it in quite like it they had the bloomberg administration dismantled it in middle of the night and i wrote a song about it that was inspired by that movement which is really still very relevant in so many ways and the song is called for the ninety nine it's a title track from the new album well thank you so much for that i  was founded in twenty eleven as a fresh and original project conserving the musical art form of jazz and the great american songbook they perform works of duke ellington miles davis antonio carlos jobim yeah rodgers and hammerstein herbie hancock cole porter and many many more so the band takes pride in presenting fresh interpretations while remaining true to the spirit of the pieces here we go ladies and gentlemen we are extremely pleased to welcome for the very first time ever going to happen the perfect alibi quartet thank you thank you very much we are very very happy to be here tonight thank you very much for having us we've got some great jazz for you as well o thank you very much our first number was moondance you may recognize in this of course was from cannonball adderly smersh the mercy mercy our next song tonight is a special dedication for i understand a very thank you very much our final selection deceiving is an old favorite and if you love duke ellington we hope you'll enjoy our version of it