Jazz Ain't Dead Performs at Joyce SoHo 3/24-27

Jazz Ain't Dead®, a young urban Jazz music and dance collective known for taking classical jazz standards and re-imagining them into house, acid jazz, funk, and soul music will be performing their 2011 Spring season with two hot programs of exhilarating live music, singers, and dancers, at Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, in six shows, Thursday through Sunday, March 24 - 27.

For the Joyce SoHo season 2011, Jazz Ain't Dead® will perform new music and classics revived as well as selections from their tribute concert, Jazz Ain't Dead Celebrating the Legacy of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Jazz Ain't Dead takes the score of Gershwin's hit opera, Porgy and Bess and re-imagines the music into young urban jazz inspired by house, funk, acid jazz, and soul. Danced music includes Summertime as jazzy burlesque with original spoken word by special guest, Mo Beasley, Ain't Necessary Soul as acid house, My Man's Gone Now as a sexy acid jazz lounge, A Woman is a Sometime Thing performed as an old time juke joint boogie down funk, I Got Plenty of Nuttin' as a rip roaring "dancing horn players" feature, Bess, You is My Woman Now as urban jazz, I Loves You Porgy as a spoken word and blues number, and our signature favorite, Summertime House JAD Style, a New Orleans inspired music and dance jam session to the driving rhythm of house.

The JAD Lounge will feature funky new arrangements of classics like Whatever Lola Wants and My Funny Valentine, along with Nu-Jazz and/or contemporary jazz renditions of music by Esperanza Spalding, Teena Marie, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin and hot spoken word by the UrbanErotika headmaster himself, Mo Beasley. Both productions feature live music, dancers, singers, and a live DJ.

Tickets are $22 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased online at joyce.org, via phone at 212-242-0800 or in person at The Joyce Theater at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street, Mon-Sun, 12 noon - 6pm. A free wine bar will be open to patrons with tickets.

For more information about Jazz Ain't Dead shows, JAD dancers, JAD musicians, and the entire JAD company, please visit the website at www.JazzAintDead.com or call 212-426-1305.