Mae
"Lady Jazz"
Wheeler"
Mae's birthday celebration on Sun May 20th was a virtual
Who's Who of St. Louis music...over 35 musicians and
vocalists joined in the celebration, including Denise Thimes
(just back from DC where she performed for the Queen),
Jeanne Trevor, Peanuts Whalum, Kim Massie and Gene
Lynn. Like "Lady Jazz" said..."It was
magic honey!"
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Oct
2006
RFT: BEST WINGS
June
2006
Alive Magazine
"Hot Spots"
Best People Watching Patio
May 2006
Alive Magazine
Best Place for Live Music
Second year!
Voted Best Jazz Club!
Voted
"Best Jazz Club", AOL City Guide
2005, 2006 & 2007
Listed in
"Where St. Louis"
Annual Hot Picks as
Best Place for Jazz
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Kirk
Whalum
I had an extraordinary live music experience seeing Kirk
Whalum's uncle, Hugh
"Peanuts" Whalum, who played with Count Basie, Nat
King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald. Rendezvous
signed Peanuts, who
plays genius sax and piano, and he has a voice like velvet.
His set, was
so amazing that everyone in the room seemed to sigh
collectively and say quietly after each song "oh,
yeah" or "beautiful." Indeed, it was exquisite
and heartbreakingly beautiful. "
Carol Archer
radioandrecords.com
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Tues.
June 24
Peanuts played the original Red
Carpet Lounge on Gaslight Square in the mid 60s which was
owned by current Brandt's owner, Adam Brandt's, grandparents
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Rendezvous
Entertainment
Recording Artist
Hugh
"Peanuts"
Whalum
WATCH
Peanuts' VIDEO
Voted
"Best Lounge Performer"
Riverfront Times
(Peanuts performs with Dave
Koz, Euge Groove, Jeff Golub,
Jonathon Butler and other jazz greats on Jazz Cruises,
LLC's Dave Koz Jazz Cruise. (see www.jazzcruisellc.com
)
- play«
I'll Close My Eyes
- play«
Can't Help Falling In Love
- play«
It's Always Four A.M.
- play«
Beautiful Friendship
for Jazz Cruise info
please click below
www.jazzcruisellc.com
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Best Lounge Act
Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum
As cool and smooth as the perfect martini, Hugh
"Peanuts" Whalum has provided sophisticated
musical entertainment for several generations of St.
Louisans, starting in Gaslight Square and continuing into
the present day. A fine tenor saxophonist as well as a
pianist and singer, Whalum somehow manages to be both
suave and down-home, charming audiences even as he
educates them in the finer points of jazz and the Great
American Songbook. Recently signed to the internationally
distributed Rendezvous Music label, Whalum is getting a
well-deserved late-career chance to reach a wider
audience. We can only hope his future success won't
preclude frequent appearances in the cozy confines of
local spots like Brandt's Red Carpet Lounge, where Whalum
has held forth most Thursdays for the past several years.
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Wed.
June 25
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Thurs.
June 26
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Hot
Club Caravan
with
Sandy Weltman
Harmonica
virtuoso Sandy Weltman's talents
are diverse to say
the
least. While at home in the jazz realm, he is equally
skilled in blues, Celtic, Klezmer, Latin and much
more. He has gained international recognition in
the World Harmonica Competitions. Sandy has won numerous
awards and is equally skilled on
the
banjo, with which he fronted his own band called the
SanDroids (see cd entitled "Escape
Velocity").
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Every band Sandy Weltman touches turns to gold! come hear his newest
musical adventure...Gypsy Jazz! Think the gypsy jazz stylings of Django
Rheinhardt!
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Fri.
June 27
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The
Dave Black
Trio
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Sat. June 28
Welcome
Javier home
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...and it all began at Brandt's!
See a lot more Javier at:
www.youtube.com/javiermendozacanas
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Tues. July 1st.
Watch for her in the Muny's production of "The
Producers".
Make
Tuesdays your special night out with St. Louis' Legends of
Jazz
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Miss
Jeanne Trevor
Spend the evening
with a Legend!
St. Louis City
Mayor Francis Slay has
proclaimed March 18th as "Jeanne Trevor Day"! |
"St.
Louis' First Lady
of Jazz"
St. Louis Post
Dispatch
"One
of St. Louis most exciting jazz talents"
"A St. Louis Jazz legend!"
KTVI TV |
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July 3
THE
4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION STARTS HERE!
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Hot
Club Caravan
with
Sandy Weltman
Harmonica
virtuoso Sandy Weltman's talents
are diverse to say
the
least. While at home in the jazz realm, he is equally
skilled in blues, Celtic, Klezmer, Latin and much
more. He has gained international recognition in
the World Harmonica Competitions. Sandy has won numerous
awards and is equally skilled on
the
banjo, with which he fronted his own band called the
SanDroids (see cd entitled "Escape
Velocity").
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Every band Sandy Weltman touches turns to gold! come hear his newest
musical adventure...Gypsy Jazz! Think the gypsy jazz stylings of Django
Rheinhardt!
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Celebrate
the 4th of July...
and PARTY!! |
Dub
Kitchen!
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"Dub
Kitchen remains an elusive presence in St. Louis, rarely
playing out and offering only a perfunctory bio on their Web
site. But make no mistake: This is dub reggae as played by a
handful of white twentysomethings who — praise Jah —
don't pretend to come from funky Kingston. The alternating
male and female vocals come and go in a sweet, unassuming
fashion, but this band's core is their rhythm section.
Stuttering organ chords, rumbling bass lines and sharp snare
hits fall into the cavern of echoing ephemera. The members
of Dub Kitchen are proud students of '70s dub, and they keep
the pot simmering at the perfect temperature."
-Riverfront Times-Music Awards -2006 Nomination |
Sat.
July 5
THE PARTY JUST KEEPS ON GOING!
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The Incredible
KIM MASSIE!
Damn
Your Eyes *Click
to Sample*
Dr
Feelgood *Click to Sample*
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"her voice gently grabs
your soul and leads it someplace where inhibitions melt and
smiles are currency.
...she hits notes tenaciously enough to karate chop through
oak and emits chords tender enough to lull a newborn baby."
Debra D. Bass
St. Louis Post Dispatch 4/11/07
At Kim's performance you can jazz
style it with Norah Jones, "Don't Know Why I didn't
Call", Diva dish It with "Better Than Love"
or go to church with her in "just a Closer Walk with
thee". Kim serves up a platter of Jazz and blues
desserts with sweet, sassy, and soulful sounds!
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July 8
Peanuts played the original Red
Carpet Lounge on Gaslight Square in the mid 60s which was
owned by current Brandt's owner, Adam Brandt's, grandparents
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Rendezvous
Entertainment
Recording Artist
Hugh
"Peanuts"
Whalum
Voted
"Best Lounge Performer 2006
Riverfront Times
(Peanuts has just returned
from performing with Dave Koz, Euge Groove, Jeff Golub,
Jonathon Butler and other jazz greats on two Jazz
Cruises. (see www.jazzcruisellc.com
)
- play«
I'll Close My Eyes
- play«
Can't Help Falling In Love
- play«
It's Always Four A.M.
- play«
Beautiful Friendship
for Jazz Cruise info
please click below
www.jazzcruisellc.com
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Best Lounge Act
Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum
As cool and smooth as the perfect martini, Hugh
"Peanuts" Whalum has provided sophisticated
musical entertainment for several generations of St.
Louisans, starting in Gaslight Square and continuing into
the present day. A fine tenor saxophonist as well as a
pianist and singer, Whalum somehow manages to be both
suave and down-home, charming audiences even as he
educates them in the finer points of jazz and the Great
American Songbook. Recently signed to the internationally
distributed Rendezvous Music label, Whalum is getting a
well-deserved late-career chance to reach a wider
audience. We can only hope his future success won't
preclude frequent appearances in the cozy confines of
local spots like Brandt's Red Carpet Lounge, where Whalum
has held forth most Thursdays for the past several years.
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July 9
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July 10
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RFT
"Farshid has created his own lavish, passionate, dreamlike language"
Sauce magazine, January 2004, by Lisette Dennis:
"For Farshid, three different cities and countries, three different cultural
environments
and three different languages result in music that is not limited to one
tradition."
Where
magazine, March 2003 by Amanda Doyle:
"…Such is the effect of St. Louis based Farshid etniko, whose
seamless blend of middle
eastern instruments, latin beats, American blues sensibilities and plenty of
other
make it one0 of the most engaging bands on the city’s music scene.
…It seems inevitable that the group’s music would be such a melting pot of
traditions,
both cultural and musical."
St. Louis
Post Dispatch, special section, December 2002:
"Extremely
talented and versatile musicians, Farshid etniko combines gypsy
jazz latin and world music to create unique sounds from original creations
to jazz standards and songs with a latin flavor and Persian touch."
Playback
magazine CD review October 2002 by Peggy Reilly:
"Farshid etniko’s music can be enjoyed in so many ways.
The skill the band displays with their instruments makes each performance a
form of visual entertainment.
After one performance, you are hooked and end up buying a copy of their CD
anyway."
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July 11
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Mo
and Dawn
Begin the evening with
The
Acid Lounge Set
End the night with
The
Remix Project |
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Sat.
July 12
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The
Joe Pastor
"Jazz Trinity"
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Tues.
July 15
Peanuts played the original Red
Carpet Lounge on Gaslight Square in the mid 60s which was
owned by current Brandt's owner, Adam Brandt's, grandparents
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Rendezvous
Entertainment
Recording Artist
Hugh
"Peanuts"
Whalum
WATCH
Peanuts' VIDEO
Voted
"Best Lounge Performer"
Riverfront Times
(Peanuts performs with Dave
Koz, Euge Groove, Jeff Golub,
Jonathon Butler and other jazz greats on Jazz Cruises,
LLC's Dave Koz Jazz Cruise. (see www.jazzcruisellc.com
)
- play«
I'll Close My Eyes
- play«
Can't Help Falling In Love
- play«
It's Always Four A.M.
- play«
Beautiful Friendship
for Jazz Cruise info
please click below
www.jazzcruisellc.com
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Best Lounge Act
Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum
As cool and smooth as the perfect martini, Hugh
"Peanuts" Whalum has provided sophisticated
musical entertainment for several generations of St.
Louisans, starting in Gaslight Square and continuing into
the present day. A fine tenor saxophonist as well as a
pianist and singer, Whalum somehow manages to be both
lyave and down-home, charming audiences even as he
educates them in the finer points of jazz and the Great
American Songbook. Recently signed to the internationally
distributed Rendezvous Music label, Whalum is getting a
well-deserved late-career chance to reach a wider
audience. We can only hope his future success won't
preclude frequent appearances in the cozy confines of
local spots like Brandt's Red Carpet Lounge, where Whalum
has held forth most Thursdays for the past several years.
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Wed.
July 16
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Thurs. July 17
THE WEEKEND BEGINS NOW!
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...and it all began at Brandt's!
See a lot more Javier at:
www.youtube.com/javiermendozacanas
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Fri. July
18
Make
Tuesdays your special night out with St. Louis' Legends of
Jazz
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Miss
Jeanne Trevor
Spend the evening
with a Legend!
St. Louis City
Mayor Francis Slay has
proclaimed March 18th as "Jeanne Trevor Day"! |
"St.
Louis' First Lady
of Jazz"
St. Louis Post
Dispatch
"One
of St. Louis most exciting jazz talents"
"A St. Louis Jazz legend!"
KTVI TV |
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Sat.
July 19
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Satin
Motown Review
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Three of
the HOTTEST
female vocalists in town....backed by one of the HOTTEST
bands in town...Get ready to party Motown style!!
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from
JazzReview.com...
"Tommy Halloran performs old-timey music
anyone would appreciate, but as is often the case, his savvy draws many unusual
folks. Tommy, on a first-name basis with practically anyone cool in Saint
Louis, has always hung on the fringes. He is to jazz as Uncle Tupelo was to
country-western or Steve Earle to bluegrass. He possesses the schooling (both
formal and hard-knocks) as well as the "chops" of a great jazzman...
The basic truths of Delta-blues, swing, Gospel, and Bohemia are deeply rooted
in Tommy's songwriting psyche. Like Randy Newman or Tom Waits (who seldom
appear in the same sentence), his cooking belies his ingredients. He may not be
"Chasin' the Bird", but he's certainly flippin' the bird as a
top-rate improviser. In this aspect at least, Tommy embodies the original
spirit of jazz. His blues, his bounce, and his ballads rival great musicians
from any era.
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The wait is
over....
She's Back!
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Contemporary
Soul, R&B, Smooth Jazz and Top 40 Hits.
Her smooth tones and luscious vibrato are sure to melt your musical soul.
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The Sydney Street
Trio
...Miles, Monk,
Mingus and more!
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with Joe Pastor on vibes...Daryl Mixon on
Bass and James Warfield on Sax!
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Blues
Party
@ Brandt's
With
Rough
Grooves
get ready to groove!
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Originating
in St. Louis, Missouri, Rough Grooves creates high energy
blues covering the blues greats and performing original
compositions. From intimate clubs to large festivals, these
musicians have been captivating audiences throughout the
U.S. and Europe for over twenty years. Members of the band
have performed and recorded with the legendary Johnnie
Johnson, Juno Award winners Kenny "Blues Boss"
Wayne and Jim Byrnes and with Bennie Smith, and have opened
for Albert King, Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker, Chuck Berry,
Bo Didley, Koko Taylor and many others. They have played at
blues festivals in Holland, Germany, Norway and Hungary
along with the Poconos Blues Festival, Mississippi Valley
Blues Festival and the Big Muddy Blues Festival. The best
way to experience this band is from out in the audience.
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Mary
Dyson
with
Brock Walker
on keyboard
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Mary
Dyson is a presence on stage to be reckoned with. From
the moment she takes the microphone she captivates her
audience and holds them until the last note. Whether
it's the saucy tilt of her signature fedora, the way she
looks her audience in their eyes or the clear, sweet notes
she sings...she's hard to ignore once she's taken stage;
dinner forks stop in midair, conversations cease in
mid-sentence. Her renderings of the Great American
Songbook make old melodies new again...and she doesn't stop
there...from blues to R & B, jazz standards to jazzy pop
her range and repertoire are impressive and completely
entertaining.
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Guilty
Pleazure
Cassandra Llea |
JEFF
MAK,Lead vocal/keys,is a veteran of the Midwest music scene
& Keyboardist for legendary funk group, Morris Day &
The Time. CASSANDRA LLEA, Lead vocalist, is STL's hottest
new discovery,with various songwriting credits & an
impressive collection of music from her highly anticipated
CD.Mr C.,bass/vocals,is a V.I.P of the STL Funk
Collective,with an extensive production resume with local
& national artists,including a recent collaboration with
Parliament/Funkadelic guitarist Gary Shider.KEVIN
WILLIAMS,drums,is a phenomenal percussionist & studio
musician,providing his brand of explosive drum mastery to
various new projects.Together,GUILTY PLEAZURE ignites the
stage with a fun,sexy,superfly atmosphere 2 pleaze every fan
of 80's Funk hits,as well as current Pop/Dance/Hip-Hop jam |
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Make
Tuesdays your special night out with St. Louis' Legends of
Jazz |
Trio
Tres Bien
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Brothers
Jeter (piano), Harold (bass) and Howard (drums) Thompson
form one of St. Louis' most revered jazz combos. From
Gaslight Square to the world's stage they have performed
together for over four decades. |
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The
Bottoms Up
Blues Gang
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"There
is a warmth that generates from the stage and makes the
listener feel enveloped in the proceedings; participation is
not an option. A lot of this comes from Kari Liston. As a
front "man," she is the perfect object of
attention and affections. She comes across as that big
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Jim Dunn
Playback Magazine |
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Spend
the evening with a Legend!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADY JAZZ!!
St. Louis' Legendary Jazz Performer
"Lady Jazz" Mae Wheeler
5-8pm
U. City Mayor Joe Adams
has proclaimed Ms. Wheeler's birthday, May 15th, as
"Lady Jazz Day"
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Peanuts
Whalum
St. Louis Jazz
Notes
(June 27th, 2006)
by Dean
Minderman (St.
Louis Jazz Notes)
» view website
A couple of months ago, StLJN had a
brief item about longtime St. Louis mainstay Hugh
"Peanuts" Whalum signing with Rendezvous Music, the
company owned by saxophonist Dave Koz that already included
Whalum's nephew, smooth jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum, on its
roster of artists.
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Now we've found out a bit more about Rendezvous' plans for the
elder Whalum, Rendezvous has reissued
Whalum's eponymous 2001 CD, originally recorded for Top
Drawer, a small custom label established by Kirk Whalum prior
to his signing with Rendezvous. Hugh "Peanuts"
Whalum, the CD, will get new cover artwork and will receive
nationwide distribution under the combined imprint of
Rendezvous/Top Drawer.
It'll be interesting to see how Rendezvous
markets the Whalum CD, as it is very much a straight ahead jazz
recording, rather than one in the smooth jazz that has been the
label's meat and potatoes. Based on a couple of listens, I can
see the material and production style appealing to fans of both
Cole brothers - Nat "King" and Freddy, that is - as
well as to those who enjoy the saloon song stylings of Frank
Sinatra and Tony Bennett. The production by Kirk Whalum is
nicely understated, showing off his uncle's talents as vocalist,
pianist and saxophonist in a program of swing, standards and
ballads.
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Of course, people in St. Louis know what a fine musician and
singer "Peanuts" is, but in today's highly fragmented
and youth-obsessed music marketplace, how does a record company
break a "new" artist who's been in the music business
for a half-century already? It's a challenge, to be sure, but
there's no doubt Hugh Whalum deserves a wider audience, and
perhaps now he'll get it. For now, he can still be heard most
Thursday nights at Brandt's in University City, and will also
make a guest appearance at the Rendezvous All-Stars show at the
Pageant.
Peanuts
Whalum News
Peanuts Whalum on
St. Louis Jazz Notes
Local
Jazz Legend Starts
Music Scholarship
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 home
Brandt's Cafe was proud to Welcome:
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Seven
time Grammy Nominee
Kirk Whalum
"...he's one of his
generation's most inspirational and accomplished jazz
instrumentalists. However, his talent's more than just
saxophone deep. Even with all the remarkable notches on his
resume -- he's played on projects for Whitney Houston, Vince
Gill, Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones and other legends" -- Rolling Stone Magazine
with St. Louis' own
Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum
What a show! Click Kirk's
picture to go to his website and learn more about this
incredible musician! |
7
Time Grammy Nominee
Winner of the
Stellar Award
for Best Gospel Instrumental
65 weeks on Billboard's
Contemporary Jazz Charts
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Javier Mendoza
visit his website
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Brandt's Hall of Fame
It had to begin somewhere...
We're proud these wonderful performers, for a time, called Brandt's "home"!
home |
Erin Bode
click here to listen
click here to read
Erin's Wall Street Journal Review |
