Tres Amigos Productions, 100 E 5th Street (UCO Jazz Lab), Edmond, OK (2025)

07/19/2024

The Tres Amigos want to offer to loyal supporters the opportunity for the special SEASON TICKETS seating offer below:

The Tres Amigos are going to offer everyone the ability to have tickets at the front, second or third row tables to every show if you agree to purchase season tickets for all our shows and, ALSO, make an additional (above the cost of each ticket) $125/ticket or $750/table (seats 6) contribution to our scholarship fund. If you agree to become a “Season Ticket Holder” and make the additional contribution, you will, in return, have the same table for all the shows in that season. Please note, there are only fifteen tables w/ 6 seats each (total of 90 tickets) available in this offer. You do not have to buy a full table to participate. You can buy two, or four, season tickets. But, if you purchase less that a full table, you will be put with others who also do not purchase a full table, as well, to fill the seats. Also, the additional $125/ticket contribution or $750/table contribution shall be made payable to the “UCO Foundation – Tres Amigos Scholarship Fund,” and it will be a pure contribution to our endowed scholarship fund at the UCO Foundation. All seats/tables (on the first three rows) will be on allocated on a “first paid / first pick” basis. Each Season Ticket will be honored for one calendar year.

It is our hope and desire to raise an additional $7,500 this year with this program and continue to grow our third scholarship. Please contact me at your earliest convenience if you desire to become a “Season Ticket Holder” and want to make the additional contribution.

The 4 Shows for the TRES AMIGOS season…
Fall 2024 through Spring 2025
(and one Re-Scheduled Concert from April) are:

“A Night of Jerry Jeff Music!” with
Django Walker & the last Jerry Jeff Walker Band
Friday, September 6, 2024 – 8:00 PM Tickets $85/each

Django (the son of Jerry Jeff) will be bringing the last Jerry Jeff Walker Band (that toured with his father) to perform all the favorites that you would hear at a Jerry Jeff concert when he was still touring, and to celebrate the incredible legacy of his father!

A Very Special Evening with
John Pizzarelli
Friday, October 11, 2024 – 8:00 PM Tickets $85/each

An Intimate Evening with
JD Souther - SOLD-OUT!
Friday, November 15, 2024 – 8:00 PM Tickets $80/each
(NOTE: This is a Re-Scheduled concert from last Spring Season – It is SOLD-OUT!)

Below are the Tres Amigos Concerts after Christmas in the Spring of 2024 Season
– Dates &/or Ticket Prices still to Be Finalized & Determined:

A Very Special Concert featuring
“the Songs that were written for Linda Ronstadt” with
JD Souther & Karla Bonoff (TOGETHER!)
2 Shows on 2 Nights! currently scheduled for:
Friday March 28, 2025 – 8:00 PM
Tickets $110/each
Saturday March 29, 2025 – 8:00 PM
Tickets $110/each

Although JD Souther will be here in November (due to the reschedule from his Covid cancellation in April of 2024) this will be an entirely different and BRAND-NEW show! The UCO Jazz Lab will be one of the first places it will be performed. Both artists will perform the songs that they wrote specifically for, and became hits by, Linda Ronstadt!

If Karla wrote the song, she will be singing the lead and JD will sing harmony. And, if JD wrote the song he will sing lead, and Karla will back him up with vocal harmonies. This will probably be a two-hour performance!

The Last show of the season is still being negotiated.
A Concert Evening with (3 different performance offers currently being negotiated)
Artist to be Named Later
TBD April, or May, 2025 – 8:00 PM
Tickets will be approximately $75/each

04/19/2024

BREAKING NEWS!
The Tres Amigos' JD Souther show TONIGHT (Friday, April 19, 2024) @ the UCO Jazz Lab has been POSTPONED
& will be RE-SCHEDULED!

On Wednesday morning JD Souther tested positive for COVID in Houston, TX and flew back to CA that afternoon to recuperate.
We will contact everyone who has tickets to this SOLD-OUT Show when the new date has been determined. We are genuinely sorry for any inconvenience this may cause to any of our patrons. We hope everyone understands this is beyond anybody’s control.

As the old bumper sticker used to remind us, (and we modified)…. “Life Happens!”

03/18/2024

Looks like someone has made a FAKE copy of my page! BEWARE!

03/04/2024

Before the show started we were told that it would be an evening you would remember for the rest of your life, and last Saturday evening's concert with Joy Harjo turned out to be exactly that! I now know why she was a three term poet laureate for the U.S. Congress and was just recently informed she would be receiving the 2024 Robert Frost Medal for poetry. However, her humility is so powerfully quiet, she didn't mention either one of these facts during her entire time on stage. Her quartet included Nathan Eicher on bass, George Toumayan on drums and Josh Westbrook on guitar.

Joy Harjo transported the audience into her personal dreams with poems spoken, over incredibly sensitive jazz music, that painted images and opened windows into the important events of our lives. Joy Harjo is more than a poet, and an incredible jazz saxophone musician; she is the epitome of an artist who possesses a spiritual awareness of the meaning of everything we see as well as the things around us that are usually invisible. Her poetry and music has a simple spirituality that reflects her Native American beliefs, and for everyone listening becomes a channel for what I believe is akin to the holy spirit.

She invites listeners to mix their memories, with her poetry and songs, into something that reconnects with themselves, with the land, and with the truth. She does it all with a calming resonance that most of us so rarely experience, yet we are comfortable with the feeling it leaves in our soul - and we usually are afraid to acknowledge.

These kind of experiences and evenings, ...
"You remember for the rest of your life!"

The Tres Amigos last show of this season will be:
JD SOUTHER
Friday, April 19th - 8:00 PM
at The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab.

This show is SOLD-OUT! Call or text (405) 641-6380 to get on the waiting list for tickets.

www.thetresamigos.org

01/26/2024

The Tres Amigos are proud to announce our next concert in the 2023 - 2024 season!

Joy Harjo will be performing on Saturday, March 2, 2024 @ 8:00 PM at The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab!

She will be playing selected jazz pieces with her combo, as well as reading from several of her nine published books of poetry.

In 2019, Joy Harjo became the first Native American to hold the position to of United States Poet Laureate, and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. She is also a renowned musician and performer, and has produced seven award-winning music albums including her newest, I Pray for My Enemies. Her album of traditional flute, "Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way," won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009.

She is currently finishing a commissioned work for the Public Theater of NY writing a musical play “We Were There When Jazz Was Invented” — that will restore southeastern natives to the American story of blues and jazz.

ONE SHOW ONLY – 2 March 2024

Doors @ 7:00 PM & Show @ 8:00 PM
Tickets $50 each!
For Tickets, Call or Text - (405) 641-6380

Come, and be part of this Magical & Special Evening,
and Celebrate 21 years of Entertainment at the UCO Jazz Lab with Tres Amigos Productions!"

www.thetresamigos.org

01/20/2024

Last night, at the UCO Jazz Lab, in the introduction the audience was told that if you didn’t know “Who Peter Asher was?” before the show was over, you certainly would. That statement turned out to be prophetic to most attendees. The 79 year old (80 in June) recipient of the Commander of the British Empire has enjoyed at least three lives in the music business: as a singer and guitarist, as an executive for the Beatles’ Apple Records, and as a manager and producer of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, over the more than fifty years of his musical career. Jeff Alan Ross, the keyboardist in Mr. Asher’s quartet, assisted with the vocal harmonies that used to be filled by Gordon Waller. Completing the foursome was Aubrey Richmond providing harmony vocals, playing violin and mandolin, as well as Jennifer Oberle on base who also sang harmonies, and provided a wonderful lead vocal on “Blue Bayou.”

The entire performance includes film footage and photos from Peter’s considerable personal archive, brought to life with his storyteller’s gift, as it transported the audience back to the heart of 1960s. Mr. Asher delighted the audience with stories of his sister's, Jane Asher, romance with Paul McCartney (who moved into the Asher house), and of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s meeting for the first time at the Indica Gallery, a hip London hangout he founded with John Dunbar and Barry Miles. He conjured stories that, for all who were present now recognize, was musical history in the making and the infancy of the “British Invasion” in the U.S.

Mr. Asher began the evening regaling the patrons with stories of his acting roles as a child before explaining how he was fortunate to record “A World Without Love,” which was written by Sir Paul McCartney. Prior to, and in addition to, “Blue Bayou,” Asher and the band performed the Peter and Gordon hits “I Go to Pieces,” I Don’t Want to See You Again,” “Nobody I Know,” “True Love Ways,” and their last Top 10 hit, “Lady Godiva.”

An unexpected, yet, pleasantly surprising & rewarding experience occurred when Peter asked a UCO student, Mason Longey, to come out of the crowd and play trombone on the song. It is moments like this that make us see the value in continuing to support the Tres Amigos (non-profit) programs, and who truly benefits from the profits of these concerts.

After they concluded the show with (an audience in participation version of) “ A World Without Love,” the proper British gentlemen that he is, Commander Asher came out and signed his books, CD's, and any memorabilia that was presented before him, such as old Peter and Gordon albums & personal photos. The members of the band were also out and about taking photos with, and chatting up, the concert attendees. With his vintage pictures and television clips (such as Peter and Gordon’s first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show) last night reminds all of us, who were living then and still remember, of how very young we were and how much our lives were changed by this incredible cultural paradigm shift.

The Tres Amigos invite you to attend their NEXT Performance:

Joy Harjo - Saturday, March 2nd - 8:00 PM @ the UCO Jazz Lab
Tickets $50 each

For Tickets Text or Call (405) 641-6380

12/01/2023

The NEXT Tres Amigos Next Show will be Friday, Jan 19, 2024!

3 - Time GRAMMY Winner & "Commander of the British Empire"
Peter Asher returns in new version of:

“Peter Asher: A Musical Memoir of the 60s and Beyond”
Friday, January 19, 2024 – 8:00 PM - Tickets $65/each

We still have 18 tickets on the floor - 3 full tables. and 14 tickets along the rail in the balcony.

Peter Asher was a member of the pop music vocal duo ”Peter & Gordon” before going on to a successful career as a manager & record producer who became instrumental in shaping the ”Laurel Canyon” / CA rock sound prominent during the 1970s, producing records for James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, JD Souther, Carole King, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Loggins, Randy Newman, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Cher, and Ringo Starr. Asher currently hosts a weekly, hour-long series on Sirius XM Radio for “The Beatles Channel” called "From Me To You". In 2015, was appointed Commander of the British Empire.

ONE SHOW ONLY!
FOR INDIVIDUAL TICKETS call or text now – (405) 641-6380
ONLY EIGHTEEN SEATS REMAINING on the FLOOR!

Come, and be part of this Magical Evening, and Help Us
"Celebrate 21 years of Incredible Entertainment at the
The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab!"

www.thetresamigos.org

11/03/2023

The Next “C.R. McBeek” Productions Concert Promotion Event
WILL BE ON “BLACK FRIDAY” – NOVEMBER 24TH, 2023 @ 8:00 PM at THE UCO JAZZ - The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab

C.R. MCBEEK PRESENTS - “THE WISEGUYS”
PERFORMING ANOTHER “ALL BEATLES” SHOW!
Consider it “A Wise Guys Friends-Giving” and their serving Choice “Left-Overs!”

This will be a new show with Beatles songs performed as only the Wise Guys can! It will also include the Fab Four singles during the era that became known as the “British Invasion!”

Plus, their new Brand-New T-Shirts will be on sale. The First “Wise Guys” T-Shirt in 20 years!!!

With a matching video to compliment every song, …. It’s going to be a Great Show!

ONE SHOW – Friday, 24 November 2023 @ 8:00 PM
FOR TICKETS CALL OR TEXT NOW – (405) 641-6380
TICKETS $25 EACH!

10/22/2023

Arguably more popular in Europe than in the United States, jazz singer Stacey Kent and her husband (since 1991), the British tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, graciously entertained a 'Sold-Out' Tres Amigos crowd Saturday night for the fifth time since 2008. On their last stop in the U.S. before leaving for Hong Kong, the pair showed how they have steadily continued to elevate and expand their musical talents and scope. Accompanied by the virtuoso musicians her band — Art Hirahara on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass and Anthony Pinciotti on drums - with her soft, pert voice, Ms. Kent’s performed a plethora of numbers that mixed bossa nova classics by Antonio Carlos Jobim with American standards, and new songs from her latest album to be released on November the 10th.

Mr. Tomlinson, whose smoky tenor sax recalls Stan Getz, has added the flute to his instrumental arsenal. He also contributed with vocal harmonies. Both the flute and his incredible vocal harmonies (the first time in 5 trips Brenda & I have ever heard him sing!) were accomplished with the same attunement to atmosphere and mood that he does with his horn.

The more softly Ms. Kent sang, the more feeling she conveyed. She was at her most insightful when she slowed the pace so that you couldn’t help but absorb the words of the ballads she sung in an unaffected, vibrato-less voice, unaltered or enhanced by digital technology. Ultimately, what she and Mr. Tomlinson brought to the UCO Jazz Lab was their own personal, still-evolving love story.

Please consider joining us for the next Tres Amigos Concert on Friday, January 19, 2024 when Peter Asher returns back the UCO Jazz Lab! There are still about 30 tickets remaining!

10/09/2023

The Tres Amigos Next Show is a week from this Friday!
We still have about 24 tickets on the floor.

A Very Special & Intimate Evening with Stacey Kent
Friday, October 20, 2023 – 8:00 PM - Tickets $80/each

“Stacey Kent ….transforms songs into short stories that brim with passion, romance, and wonder.. Lean into her muted declarations and Kent can bring the world to you.” – New Yorker Magazine

Stacey Kent is an American jazz singer in the mold of the greats, with a legion of fans, a host of honors and awards including a Grammy nomination, album sales in excess of 2 million, more than half a billion streams, Platinum, Double-Gold and Gold-selling albums that have reached a series of chart-topping positions.

ONE SHOW ONLY!
FOR INDIVIDUAL TICKETS call or text now – (405) 641-6380
ONLY TWENTY-FOUR SEATS REMAINING on the FLOOR!
Come, and be part of this Magical & Special Evening, and Celebrate 21 years of Entertainment at the UCO Jazz Lab!"

10/02/2023

Last Saturday night at the UCO Jazz lab, set against the backdrop of a small living room, the trio “Girl Named Tom” (the first group act to win in the history of “The Voice”) performed for a Sold-Out and eagerly awaiting audience. Their concert was characterized by tight, perfectly blended harmonies, personal stories, original songs, and covers. Their intimate acoustic performances of “Wichita Lineman,” “Dust in the Wind,” and “The Chain” brought the audience to their feet after each. My personal favorite was a new song written by them and not even released yet, “Like I Do.” Their encore of “Helplessly Hoping,” was every bit as powerful as what you saw on NBC in the “Blinds” when they had a 4-Chair turn.

The passion and deep bond between these three siblings is so palpable, that from the perspective of the audience you understand their love for music and their joy in singing music to others. Family harmonies have become icon in the music industry. For me, this is like the Everly Brothers with a sister (that happens to have a boy’s nickname)! This was the first time that “girl Named Tom” has ever played in the state of Oklahoma. It WILL NOT be their last!

2 weeks from this Friday, 20 October, come hear “Stacey Kent” – the second show in the Tres Amigos Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 Season!
Only about 40 tickets remain, and we still have a few seats on the floor!

09/11/2023

To All our Loyal Followers:
The Next Season of the Tres Amigos Concerts is now set! Below are the concerts for "Fall 2023 – Spring 2024."

Girl Named Tom Saturday, September 30, 2023 – 8:00 PM Tickets $60/each

Stacey Kent Friday, October 20, 2023 – 8:00 PM Tickets $80/each

Peter Asher Friday, January 19, 2024 – 8:00 PM Tickets $65/each

Joy Harjo Saturday, March 2, 2024 – 8:00 PM Tickets $50/each

JD Souther Friday, April 19, 2024 – 8:00 PM Tickets $80/each

The TRES AMIGOS hope to see you at one, if not ALL, of the shows!

07/19/2023

For all the loyal WISE GUYS Fans in the OKC area -
Before the Tres Amigos Season begins in September - Be Advised:

FRIDAY - August "25TH!" 2023 @ 8:00 PM
OKC’s Favorite Local Band! THE WISE GUYS,
Will be performing for the third time this year at the UCO Jazz Lab
in a very special show, titled "BANGERS & MASH -Take 2!"

The Wise Guys will mesmerize you with highly-articulated 4 and 5 part harmonized vocals over instrumentation that is period-correct. Drawing from a repertoire of hundreds of songs, Randy Colton, Jeb Reid, Brad McPherson, Jeff Curran, Mike Harris, Dave Copenhaver and Jeff Hanes invite you to come out and dance the night away with them as they will sing the most relevant songs songs from "the British Invasion" by, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, the Kinks, the Who, the Zombies, the Animals, the Yardbirds, Herman's Hermits, the Dave Clark Five and, of course, The Beatles!

ONE SHOW ONLY AT THE UCO JAZZ LAB
CALL (or Text) 405-641-6380, NOW - TICKETS $25!

Every Show that has been at this facility has SOLD OUT - FAST!
Call (or text) 405-641-6380 for Tickets

06/29/2023

THE TRES AMIGOS ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
AND PRESENT AN EXTRODINARY CONCERT

AT THE UCO JAZZ LAB IN EDMOND – ONE SHOW ONLY!
”GIRL NAMED TOM”
WITH ONE VERY SPECIAL EVENING
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH 2023 @ 8:00 PM

“Girl Named Tom” (2 brothers and their sister) made history as the first trio to ever win “The Voice.” During Season 21, they landed 4 songs concurrently on the iTunes Top 10 charts, with 2 songs reaching #1.

Their homegrown style combines the classics (Joni Mitchell; Crosby, Stills & Nash and Fleetwood Mac) with pop artists of today and yesterday (Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, & Glen Campbell).

Click on these links to see/hear examples of their vocal/musical proficiency:
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FOR TICKETS CALL - 405/ 641-6380 - TICKETS $60

THIS SHOW WILL SELL OUT - FAST!

06/29/2023

BREAKING NEWS!
The Tres Amigos are excited to announce news about our next season! The Tres Amigos have already completed negotiations on 3 of the shows below, and are offering you tickets for the following season listed below:

Here are the proposed 5 Shows for the next
Tres Amigos Concert Season - "Fall 2023 through Spring 2024"

FIRST -A Special Performance of "Winner" of Season 21 - NBC's "the VOICE" and an Intimate Evening with:

Girl Named Tom Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 8:00 PM Tickets $60/each

SECOND - A Very Special & Intimate Evening with:

Stacey Kent Friday, October 20, 2023 - 8:00 PM Tickets $80/each

THIRD - An Intimate Evening of Music & Poetry
with 3 Time US Poet Laureate

Joy Harjo Saturday, March 2, 2024 - 8:00 PM Tickets $50/each

Two Other Concerts for the finish of the Spring 2024 Season - Dates & Ticket Prices are finalizing agreements

FOURTH - A Very Special Concert with
JD Souther TBD Late Jan or Early Feb, 2024 - 8:00 PM Tickets approximately $70/each

FIFTH - An Intimate Evening with
John Pizzarelli TBD April, 2024 - 8:00 PM Tickets approximately $65/each

Here is our proposal, we want to offer to our season ticket holders to our ardent and loyal supporters the special seating offer below:

The Tres Amigos are going to offer everyone the ability to have the front 3 rows of tables to every show if you agree to purchase season tickets for all our shows and make an additional (above the cost of each ticket) $125/ticket or $750/table (seats 6 max) contribution to our scholarship fund. If you agree to become a "Season Ticket Holder" and make the additional contribution, you will, in return, have the same table for all of the shows in our upcoming season. Please note, there are only fifteen tables w/ 6 seats each available in this offer. You do not have to buy a full table to participate, You can buy two or four season tickets. But, if you purchase less than a full table, you will be put with others who also do not purchase a full table, as well, to fill the seats. Also, the additional $125/ticket contribution or $750/table contribution shall be made payable to the "UCO Foundation - Tres Amigos Scholarship Fund," and it will be a pure contribution to our endowed scholarship fund at the UCO Foundation, and therefore 100% tax deductible. Previous Season Ticket Holders will be able to keep the same table they had last year if they confirm prior to June 30, 2023. All new seats/tables (on the Front Row &/or Second Row) will be on allocated on a "first (come) paid / first (served) pick" basis. Each Season Ticket will be honored for the "Fall 2023 - Spring 2024" Tres Amigos Productions season.

Individual tickets for "Girl Named Tom," "Stacey Kent" and "Joy Harjo" can also be purchased now.
FOR TICKETS CALL : (405) 641-6380

Season Ticket Holders and Scholarship Donors have seating / ticket priority. Also note: The Tres Amigos reserve the right to change the last two shows if the negotiations / reservations for dates, hotel, and airfare are not completed to the mutual satisfaction of all parties.

04/08/2023

If you missed the 'Tres Amigos' concert last night at The UCO Jazz Lab you missed one of the most epic and historic evenings to ever happen on the stage of this uniquely celebrated and intimate venue in Edmond, Oklahoma! In an event that was co-presented by 'Broadway Tonight' (the ultimate 'Sax' Machine) "Blue Lou" Marini with some of his Blues Brothers Buddies (and newly coronated Amigos) Lee "Funkytime” Finkelsten on drums, James "Haggs” Haggerty thumping on bass, "Rusty” Cloud mesmerizing on keyboards, David “I Can’t Perform Like This!” Spinozza smokin' on guitar and Lou Marini III "Louie Tre" on vocals created one incredible blues and jazz performance to culminate the celebration of 20 years of Tres Amigos concerts at the Jazz Lab!

From the rousing “Peter Gunn Theme’ that started the evening, to the final encore “Everybody Needs Somebody’ the audience continually augmented three different vocalists (Lou, Cloud and Louie III) with foot stomping and crowd clapping that was "on beat” through the 15 song, 90 minute performance that ended with two encores. It was the perfect way to end the Tres Amigos 20th season, and to honor the first two decades of the UCO Jazz Lab, constantly voted as the best venue to experience live music in the metropolitan area.

Thanks to "Blue Lou" Marini and his BB Buddies for the ultimate climax of another incredible season!

Stay tuned for information regarding the Tres Amigos Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Season!

03/15/2023

The Tres Amigos' NEXT CONCERT
and the Last show of the 2022 - 2023 Season
WILL BE ON FRIDAY NIGHT - APRIL 7TH, 2023 @ 8:00 PM
at THE UCO JAZZ LAB
THE TRES AMIGOS & BROADWAY TONIGHT
PROUDLY PRESENT “BLUE LOU” MARINI
& HIS BLUES BROTHERS BUDDIES!

After attending North Texas State University, Lou Marini played in Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1972 to 1974. In 1975 he was the saxophone player with the iconic riff that opened the very first episode of Saturday Night Live and has opened every episode since, becoming synonymous with show! During his seven year association with the original SNL band he was asked by John Belushi to help create The Blues Brothers band, appearing in 1980 movie The Blues Brothers” with Aretha Franklin and its sequel, “Blues Brothers 2000,” playing the part of "Blue Lou", a moniker by Dan Ackroyd. Since leaving the show in 1983, Lou has had an incredible career collaborating and recording with such legendary artists as Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, The Band and Steely Dan. He has just come off his 5th tour with James Taylor where he has been a mainstay with his saxophone touring with JT since 2001.

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ONE SHOW – 7 April 2023 @ 8:00 PM
We have only 5 tables remaining on the floor!
FOR TICKETS CALL NOW – (405) 641-6380
TICKETS $60 EACH!

03/11/2023

Last night, at the UCO Jazz Lab, Tony nominated pop/jazz singer Ann Hampton Callaway performed an incredible tribute with the brilliant songwriter, singer, musician and Grammy winner, Bill Stritch as they both celebrated one of my generation's (and America’s) most beloved female vocal artists, Linda Ronstadt. The show traces the growth and breadth of Ronstadt’s career through a set of fifteen of her familiar songs, interspersed with background information and contextualization from her 2013 autobiography "Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir" and from personal exchanges with Ms. Callaway, who also adds her own engaging comments about her friend and musical colleague.

She began with a rocking rendition of Different Drum” (written by Michael Nesbitt before the Monkees), then shifting to the bittersweet mood of “Long, Long Time,” and continued with the damning attitude of “You’re No Good,” the emotional devastation of “Tracks of My Tears,” “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me,” and “When Will I Be Loved?” The show also includes such unforgettable classics as “Blue Bayou” and poignant duets with Billy Stritch on “Don’t Know Much” and “Somewhere Out There.” My wife’s and my personal favorite of the evening was “Heart Like a Wheel,” that epitomizes Ronstadt’s heartfelt “songs of longing” and showcased Callaway’s powerful voice and empathetic delivery. The show ended in her encore of the haunting anguish of “Desperado,” made famous by Ronstadt prior to it’s release by the Eagles!

Proving she is the consummate entertainer, Ms. Callaway, engaged the crowd, asking for words and phrases from the audience. And, from the piano, she proceeded to create an improv song-on-the-spot. Romantic, intelligent, funny and joyous, Ann Hampton Callaway and "The Linda Ronstadt Songbook” delivered a perfect night of entertainment for those in attendance, and once again exemplifies why the UCO Jazz Lab has been for two decades recognized and awarded the "Best Place to Experience Live Music" in the OKC metropolitan area.

There are still a few tickets available for tonight’s performance. For Tickets, Call 405-641-6380

02/28/2023

The Last Concert of the 2022 - 2023 Tres Amigos Season

WILL BE ON FRIDAY NIGHT - APRIL 7TH, 2023 @ 8:00 PM @ THE UCO JAZZ LAB

THE TRES AMIGOS & BROADWAY TONIGHT PRESENT
“BLUE LOU” MARINI
& HIS BLUES BROTHERS BUDDIES!

After attending North Texas State University, Lou Marini played in Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1972 to 1974. In 1975 he was the saxophone player with the iconic riff that opened of very first episode of Saturday Night Live and has become synonymous with show through 1983! During his seven year association with the original SNL band he was asked by John Belushi to help create The Blues Brothers band, appearing in 1980 movie The Blues Brothers” with Aretha Franklin and its sequel, “Blues Brothers 2000,” playing the part of "Blue Lou", a moniker by Dan Ackroyd. Lou has recorded with such legendary artists as Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones The Band and Steely Dan. And he has just come of his 5th tour with James Taylor where he has been a mainstay with his saxophone touring with JT since 2001.

www.https//:thetresamigos.org

ONE SHOW – 7 April 2023 @ 8:00 PM
FOR TICKETS CALL NOW – (405) 641-6380
TICKETS $60 EACH!

01/13/2023

For all the loyal WISE GUYS Fans in the OKC area - Be Advised:
FRIDAY - February "24TH!" 2023 @ 8:00 PM

OKC’s Favorite Local Band! THE WISE GUYS, Will be performing once again at the UCO Jazz Lab in a very special show, as the band is going to showcase the Wise Guys "FAVORITE SONGS!"

The Wise Guys will mesmerize you with highly-articulated 4 and 5 part harmonized vocals over instrumentation that is period-correct. Drawing from a repertoire of hundreds of songs, Randy Colton, Jeb Reid, Brad McPherson, Jeff Curran, Dave Copenhaver and Jeff Hanes invite you to come out and celebrate the 2023 New Year with them as they will sing their favorite songs songs from artists such as The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, The Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, The Cars, CSN, The Hollies, The Romantics, America, Maroon 5 and, of course, The Beatles!

ONE SHOW ONLY AT THE UCO JAZZ LAB
CALL 405-641-6380 NOW - TICKETS $25!

Every Show that has been at this facility has SOLD OUT - FAST!
Call 405-641-6380 for Tickets