Pat began playing professionally in 1961. He has performed with a wide variety of artists including Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Richard Groove Holmes, John Handy, Bobby Hutcherson, Chick Corea, Jack McDuff, Don Patterson, Stanley Clark, Eric Kloss, Trudy Pitts, Willis

The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts announces that it will host the first ever “Musicians Mingle" on Wednesday, September  21, 2016.  The purpose of this event is to create a forum where members of Philadelphia's  musicians community

Saxophonist, flutist, and multi-reed player Sonny Fortune is a progressive musician with a harmonically aggressive style who came to prominence as a member of trumpeter Miles Davis' fusion groups of the '70s. Born in Philadelphia in 1939,Fortune attended the Wurlitzer and Granoff music schools

Bobby Zankel & The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, Warriors of the Wonderful Sound and the Philadelphia Clef Club are proud to present guest artist alto Saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, the winner of the Rising Star alto Saxophone category in the

Admission is payable at the door in cash only, $25 for adults and $15 for students with I.D. Internationally renowned bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma is pleased to present The Outsiders Improvised & Creative Music Festival for the second year in a row,

Two Sets 8pm and 10pm! To purchase tickets click here or call 215-893-9912 for more information. NEA Master and Grammy® Award nominee, Angel R. "Papo" Vázquez is a jazz trombonist with his own style, arranger, composer, and he is one of the

In the 1950s, Dale Turner (Dexter Gordon), a gifted black saxophonist with a drinking problem, leaves behind New York and his estranged family and relocates to Paris. There he plays for a progressive, jazz-loving audience without being judged by his

COME JOIN US FOR A MEMORABLE ALL STAR CONCERT AND BUFFET FEATURING GUEST STARS: CHUCK LOEB, POOGIE BELL, BILL EVANS, ALEX BUGNON, JEFF "TAIN" WATTS, DEXTER WANSEL, OMAR HAKIM, JAMAALADEEN TACUMA, DARYL BURGEE, DOUG GRIGSBY, NOBLE SOUL, ROSLYN KING AND

To purchase tickets click HERE Professional Saxophonist, Composer and Educator When Mack Avenue recording artist, Tia Fuller picks up her sax to play, something amazing happens as the reverberations of her musical elixir fill the room. Balancing both worlds of performance

Join us as we celebrate the music and legacy of Bill Doggett.  Born in Philadelphia,  February 16, 1916 he was an American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist. He is best known for his compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy", and variously working with the Ink Spots, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ella

The Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame in partnership with the Philadelphia Clef Club Presents: A Benefit for George Manney featuring: George Pettignano, Steve Kurtz, Philadelphia Fire and Police Pipe and Drum, Bobby Rydell, Clef Club Big Band, Nik Everett, The Soul Survivors, Marty Watt, The Orlons w/Soul Survivor Band, The Tymes, Ready