Special EFX All Stars Featuring Chieli Minucci + More!

Name: Special EFX All Stars Featuring Chieli Minucci + More!
Start: 2025-06-08T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-08T20:00:00-04:00
Location: The Funky Biscuit

Schedule

Sun Jun 08 2025 at 05:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Funky Biscuit | Boca Raton, FL

Special EFX All Stars Featuring Chieli Minucci, Eric Marienthal, Brian Bromberg, Lao Tizer & Joel Rosenblatt
*All reserved seats for this event are subject to a $25 food or beverage minimum. All Premium Stage Bar Seats have a direct, unobstructed view of the stage, and a $25 food or beverage minimum.

*All ticket orders are non-refundable.

*This event is 21+ unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.

About Special EFX All Stars:
Guitarist, composer, producer, and arranger Chieli Minucci's longtime leader of the Grammy-nominated jazz-fusion group SPECIAL EFX featuring Chieli Minucci, a major force on the jazz and world music scene for over 40 years.

Earlier this year Chieli and Special EFX released “Meant To Be”, the chart-topping single! In the summer of 2024, their previous single, “Cool Summer”, reached the #1 spot on Billboard,as well asa total of 5 charts simultaneously! Chieli has also recently released 3uniqueprojects-“Return to Budapest With Love”,is an archived, 1990 live concert recording of Special EFX from their early days on tour in Europe; thesolo, and mainly acoustic release,“Someone’s Singing”;as well as the 40th anniversary Special EFX CD, “Twenty Twenty 2”.

Chieli & Special EFX previous release saw title track, “Deep as the Night”, win Billboard Magazine’s 2018 top honors,best-song-of-the-year.Besides writing and performing his own music, Chieli shares his guitar brilliant throughout the entertainment world. He has recorded and performed with many topartists, such as Celine Dion, Lou Reed, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel, MarcAnthony, Michael Bolton,Rupert Holmes, Anastasia,even classic artists Eartha Kitt, and Eddie Fisher.He’s collaborated and worked alongside contemporary jazz artists Kirk Whalum, Maysa, Jeff Lorber, Norman Brown, Bernie Williams,Marion Meadows, Lao Tizer, Mindi Abair, Rick Braun, Gerald Veasley, Omar Hakim, and many others.

Although renowned in the jazz and pop world, Chieli is also a gifted television and film composer. He has won 3 Emmy Awards and been nominated 10 times for his eclectic compositional work. His music can also be heard on the soundtracks of the film No Country for Old Men,Bowfinger, Legally Blonde, Panic, and others.Chieli's original scoring work can be heard in live stage productions ofPeter Pan,Dora the Explorer,Thomas The Tank Engine, and others.

Saxophonist Eric Marienthal Started his professional career in 1980 with famedNew Orleans trumpeter Al Hirt. After returning to Los Angeles, Eric became a member of theChick Corea Elektric Band. He recorded six albums with that band and two of them won Grammy Awards. Six of the songs that Marienthal has recorded have made it to the top 10 of the National Contemporary Jazz Radio Charts and two have made it to No.1. His Oasis album hit the top 5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart. Shortly after that, he was voted one of the year "Favorite Alto Sax Players" in Jazziz magazine's Readers' Poll. Marienthal Has also written instructional books, including Comprehensive Jazz Studies & Exercises, The Ultimate Jazz Play Along, and The Music of Eric Marienthal and instructional videos, including Play Sax From DayOne, Modern Sax and Tricks of the Trade.

Brian Bromberg Is one of the few bassists to master the tapping technique made famous by guitarists Stanley Jordan & Eddie Van Halen, sometimes sounding likethree bassists at once during his often-thunderous solos. He has long been know as one of the world’s most versatile acoustic and electric bassists, capable of playing practically any style, whether it be straight-ahead jazz, funk, rock fusion, or pop.By the time he was 19, he was part of the legendary Stan Getz group. Besides Decades as a bandleader on his own, Bromberg has been a valuable sidemen withmany, including Horace Silver, Monty Alexander, Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Ritenour,Dave Grusin, many others. Continually stretching himself on bass, Bromberg haslong been one of the premiere bassists on the contemporary jazz scene.

Keyboardist Lao Tizer Is one of today’s rising stars of the world-fusion genre.Tizer Original music has spurred comparisons of a modern twist to the 1970s and early 1980s heyday of jazz fusion, when trailblazing ensembles like Return ToForever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report set the aesthetic standard.Lao’s music has a multi-genre, multi-national appeal and his group,The Lao Tizer Band,has toured the USA and the world while being nominated“Jazz Group of the Year”!Their new 2018 CD/DVD combo release,Songs From The wing house has received acclaim across the industry while debuting near the top of the Billboard Jazz Album Chart!

Joel Rosenblatt Is a world-renowned drummer and producer.He has performed and recorded with such greats as: Spyro Gyra, Special EFX, Lee Ritenour, Freddy Jackson, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton. Eileen Ivers, Michel Camilo, Chick Corea,Steps Ahead, Paquito d Rivera, Manhattan Transfer, Randy Brecker, Ken Navarro,Bill Evans and many more. Having toured the world many times over, Joel bringsan international musical awareness to the music.Currently the owner and main engineer at world class Cliff Sound Productions, Joel is also actively involved in producing and cultivating new artists.