KEVIN O’NEAL GROUP featuring PATRICE QUINN @ Upstairs at Vitello's

8pm Show doors 6:30pm / $36

Kevin O’Neal – bass, voice, composition

Patrice Quinn – voice

Gary Matsumoto – piano

Aaron Serfaty – drums

Kevin O’Neal loves traversing the road less traveled, with flair, aplomb, and is always swinging.

Kevin & Patrice love making music together. Their sounds are sophisticated, original and moving.

Kevin hails from Los Angeles and Patrice from New York City: Sunset & Harlem.

Kevin & Patrice have been spreading their “Whole New Way of

Thinking” nationally and abroad, with standing room crowds in Los

Angeles, New York City, Havana and other fine cities. They front a

stunningly beautiful, swinging band, featuring outstanding original

compositions and championing the compositional works of the great

American masters Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk.

Patrice Quinn is art and soul. In addition to being a fine vocalist,

she is also a well decorated actress, featured in film, stage and

television, including  “NYPD Blue”, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”,

“Melrose Place” and John Patrick Shanley’s play “Doubt.”

Kevin O’Neal is a Grammy winning bassist, specializing in acoustic

music and multi-media productions, who has mastered the piano and is a

brilliant writer, arranger, vocalist, director and composer known

nationally and internationally for his innovation with improvisational

based music. He has lent his talents, in concert and recording settings

to diverse artists including Tracy Chapman, Barry Harris, Kevin Toney,

Nnenna Freelon, Outkast, Barbara Morrison, Stix Hooper, Brian Setzer,

Hank Crawford, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. and many others.

Kevin also leads and directs Radiant Voices, a vocal ensemble

specializing in original jazz influenced music.

Kevin composed the music and score for the musical “North On South

Central” and Radiant Voices are the featured performers on the original

soundtrack CD. Kevin also composed the music for the Walter Mosley

penned 9 hour radio drama “Black Betty”, sponsored by KCRW. Kevin has

composed for and appeared in the pace setting films “48 Hours”,

“Ghostbusters” and “Devil with the Blue Dress.”

Both Kevin and Patrice are offspring of fine parents, who have been

and are very active in humanities and human rights. This is reflected in

Kevin & Patrice’s commitment to young people, with Patrice serving

as an instructor of acting at Los Angeles County High School for the

Arts, and Kevin as Associate Professor of music at Santa Monica College,

specializing in Jazz and American culture: not the standard how and

when music is created, but why. Kevin’s class has become the

most popular course in the department, with international students

coming from all over the world to attend the course.

The future is bright for Kevin & Patrice, as they move forward

with two new music films in the works; a short film featuring the music

of Thelonious Monk and a feature length film with full length, original

music performances. They are also finishing an album dedicated to Billie

Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington.

Kevin & Patrice lead the way for innovation, culture, class and fun: A Whole New Way of Thinking!