Event

Exodus To Jazz: Four80East

Led by co-founders Rob DeBoer and Tony Grace, Four80East returns to Rochester for their annual "Rite of Spring" engagement. With an infectious heavy-groove sound characterized by distinctive melodies, their sound "lies at the forefront of what has been called the nu jazz movement taking the best of contemporary jazz and pop styles and aligning them to produce an improvisational dance-infused sound." Although co-leaders/founders Rob DeBoer and Tony Grace never considered their music typical of the smooth jazz genre, the group remains a bright spot on the smooth jazz radar screen.

As a special feature, Paradigm Shift will again open the concert with their signature grove jazz. Popular among Rochester-area music fans, the band continues to "tear up stages across the globe with boiling-hot grooves and a gritty attack that pleasantly recaptures the music's rightful street-level ambiance."

Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Location: Water Street Music Hall
204 N. Water Street, Roch., NY 14604
Time:
- 7:00PM - Doors open, "Meet & Greet" reception
- 7:30PM - Paradigm Shift
- 8:15PM - Intermission
- 8:30PM - Four80East
- 9:30PM - Intermission
- 9:50PM - Four80East
- 10:50PM - Concert ends

Tickets:
- Patron - $35 - Reserved mezzanine seating; includes "Meet & Greet" reception beginning at 7:00PM;
- Premium- $25 Reserved theatre seating on lower level, closest to the stage;
- Gen. Adm. - $20 Lower level standing room behind the Premium section of theatre seating.