New Mexico Jazz Jam - $10, Spontaneous, Innovative Jazz Night~

Name: New Mexico Jazz Jam - $10, Spontaneous, Innovative Jazz Night~
Start: 2025-10-16T19:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-10-16T22:00:00-06:00
Location: 903 Early Street, Santa Fe, NM, United States, New Mexico 87505

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

903 Early Street, Santa Fe, NM, United States, New Mexico 87505 | Santa Fe, NM

New Mexico Jazz Jam - Based on NY Jazz Club model, Paradiso beginning frequent New Mexico jazz jams featuring some our great talents, with house band Bob Fox on piano, Alex Murzyn on sax and flute, Gordy Johnson on bass, and this monthThor Rodriguez on drums. They will be playing one set followed by the spontaneous jazz jam with invited NM finest guest jazz artists. TIckets $10, Students 18 and under Free
https://tickets.holdmyticket.com/tickets/453234
Alex Murzyn’s versatile musicianship has made him the most in demand saxophonist in New Mexico. Relocating from the San Francisco area, where he played with numerous bands, including Huey Lewis and the News, Ray Obiedo, Pete Escovedo, Tito Puente, Sheila Escovedo (Sheila E), Ray Charles Orchestra, Stanley Clark, and the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra, with a career spanning three decades. He has three CDs under his name, and is working to complete the fourth soon to be released. He brings his unique background of R & B and modern jazz to the table whenever he plays. He is equally accomplished on flute and clarinet.
John Rangel, a native of New York City, is a pianist, composer, and producer. John moved to Los Angeles in the early 90’s to become involved in Music Production and Film Scoring. He performed and recorded there with numerous Jazz legends.
Since moving to Santa Fe in 2005, he has composed a “Solar Concerto for Chamber Orchestra”, recorded Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 & 2, composed music for film and audio books, and produced numerous audio CD’s. John has won 15 New Mexico Music Awards for music production. Some of John’s performance highlights include; Joy of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg, Inntone Jazz Festival in Austria, Carnegie Hall, Royce Hall, Gene Harris Jazz Festival, the Playboy Jazz Festival, Central Avenue Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott’s, Jazz Café in London, North Sea Jazz Festival.John has performed with Nat Adderley, Eddie Daniels, Dave Grusin, Sam Rivers, Dwight Trible, Billy Higgins, Eric Bibb, and many others.
Gordie Johnson is a bass player extraordinaire - fluid, inventive, smart, tasteful. His world tours include Maynard Ferguson, Gene Bertoncini, Roy Buchanan, the Paul Winter Consort, CBS All Stars and Chuck Mangione. He has contributed to over 150 recordings, from jazz (Jimmy Hamilton, Maynard Ferguson, etc.) to blues/R&B (Buchanan, Doug Maynard) to bluegrass (Becky Schlegel) to folk (Greg Brown, Arlo Guthrie). Network television appearances run the gamut from the Merv Griffin Show to Soul Train. He has played with scores of national artists, including Joanne Brackeen, Herb Ellis, Rosemary Clooney, Scott Hamilton, Michael Johnson, Jay McShann, Dewey Redman.
Paradiso now hosting regular NM Jazz Jams, featuring NM Jazz Greats, including Alex Murzyn sax, Gordy Johnson Bass, Bob Fox piano, and invited guest artists for exciting original music!