Hot August Nights : Weekend At Harvelle's

Soul Funk : DJ Vicious Lee Pix

It's Soul Funk time!

Joining Ryan Cross was the star of the Sunday night residency at Harvelle's known as The Toledo Show. The inimitable Mr. Diamond hasn't been seen round here on a Tuesday night in ages.

DJ Vicious Lee shot the pix!

Thanks VL!

Toledo expounds on the nature of cool with Ryan Cross on bass.

TheArtist Kiki proves who's got the love!

Ian Martin on bass and Todd Washington on guitar!

Soul Funk : Welcome to Tuesday

Ryan Cross and Soulfunk are hardly strangers around these parts. The West side home to L.A.'s coolest jazz cat, it is with major enthusiasm and elation that brings this one all home. Let's not forget Mr.'s Coye and Coleman (drums, keys respectively) and the plethora of talent available to Mr. Cross.

Tonight's guests include Octavius Terry, DJ Vicious Lee and Karma.

**HARVELLE'S CLOSED FOR REPAIRS**

The word is, that tonight, So Cal Edison will be conducting repairs to the grid in the adjacent areas to Harvelle's. The power will be shut off and is scheduled to remain off all night long.

Tonight's SoulFunk! featuring Maiya Sykes will be rescheduled.

Next week : Frat Tuesday with DJ Vicious Lee

Tomorrow night :

Chali 2na

with the

House Of Vibe All Stars

Toledo Show : A View From The Decks

Vicious Lee is the world's greatest D.J.

He's at Harvelle's every Sunday night.

The place is a sweaty frenzy of funky madness when he's spinning.

He also has a first row view of The Dames, the burlesque dancing beauties that provide the show with unbridled sexuality. He also has a camera. Here's some of his flicks of Dame Mindy.

Thanks Vicious.

SoulFunk : Nikki Grier : Caught Up In The Rapture

Sometimes when I'm watching the world-class musicians that perform at Harvelle's, I think to myself 'if they hadn't discovered they were musicians, what would they be doing?' I can't imagine Nikki Grier doing anything but singing. People listen to Nikki. People want to listen to Nikki. They REALLY want to listen to her. The room was practically silent as she opened up her heart and poured out it's contents for all to see. Whew!

Of course Ryan Cross and his SoulFunk! stalwarts Gene Coye (drums) and Brandon Coleman (keys and vox) tore they place apart with their sonic combo. Whether jammin' some hard bop, or backing the folks who sit in they rock the house.

Ask for it by name: SoulFunk! Every Tuesday night at Harvelle's!

SoulFunk : Nikki Grier & DJ Vicious Lee

Ryan Cross introduced the ultra cool soul singer Nikki Grier to an enthusiastic crowd at Harvelle's Tuesday Soulfunk 2 weeks ago. While headliner Judith Hill took a short break, Nikki took the stage and showed up to sing! Her performance of "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" brought the house down!

Graciously she invited Judith back onstage to do some side-by-side vocalizing and competitive "add-a-note" jamming. Once again, as often happens at Harvelle's, the audience totally won!!! (See video below.)

Also featured tonight - DJ Vicious Lee on the 1's and 2's. Vicious is the DJ at Harvelle's insanely popular Sunday night Toledo Show. Vicious is known to keep the dance floor beyond packed, and he knows which crates to dig into. 

Big shout-out to Ryan Cross for bringing the talent to the people.

Keep it coming!

The Toledo Show : Liver Than You'll Ever Be!

Note to self : 

Toledo Show. 

9pm. Harvelle's. 

Downtown Santa Monica.