CecilsOnline.com
Welcome to CecilsOnline.com, the
website for Cecil's Bar and Restaurant, "Home of New
Jersey's Finest Music". A new, full scale web site is under
development, and will soon be at this web address, but this page
will be updated regularly. Check back frequently!
ANNOUNCING:
364 Valley Road, West
Orange, NJ
Cocktail Bar, Live
Music, Good Food!!
(973) 736-4800
- OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK
FROM 11am 'til 2am -
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Cecil's features the
finest in Jazz, Big Band, Latin, Smooth Jazz, Blues,
Spoken Word, and has a swinging weekly Jam Session. The
restaurant is open for lunch, dinner and late nite meals.
Call for more info!
(Photo by Don Braden)
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EVENTS CALENDAR (All shows
start at 9pm unless otherwise noted):
Sundays: Organic Blues and Swing!
Mondays: Cecil's Big Band featuring Joe Elefante
Tuesdays: Jam Session, featuring the best in upcoming talent.
Hosted by alto saxophonist Bruce Williams
Wednesdays: Smooth Jazz and Fusion with Phil Fields and
D-Slyce
Thursdays: Latin Music with the Latin Jazz Alliance
Fridays and Saturdays: World Class Jazz Artists (Call
for details)
Watch out for regular performances of the CBIII Band,
featuring Radam Schwartz on Hammond organ, Bruce Williams on alto
saxohpone, Riley Mullins on trumpet and Cecil Brooks III on
drums.
FRIDAY / SATURDAY DECEMBER
19/20: JAZZ FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
with the Don Braden Organic Group, featuring rising star
Kyle Koehler on Hammond organ, and Cecil Brooks III on drums and
Don Braden on Tenor and Soprano saxophones. Featuring groovin'
standards, originals and holiday classics.
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Don Braden has toured the world and recorded
extensively both as a leader and as a sideman with jazz
greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Haynes, Freddie
Hubbard, Tom Harrell, and many others. He has also spent
many years composing and producing for comedian and actor
Bill Cosby. His latest CD on the HighNote label is Brighter
Days, and the next one, The New Hang,
is due out in early 2004! See www.DonBraden.com
for more information. (Photo by John Abbott)
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 24: CHRISTMAS EVE with Phil Fields and D-SLYCE
FRIDAY / SATURDAY DECEMBER
26/27: The Winard Harper Group, featuring
Winard on drums, Patrick Rickman on trumpet and flugelhorn, and
others. LIVE RECORDING!
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 31: NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION (see below)!
SPECIAL NEWS:
VISIT CECIL'S on DECEMBER 31st
for a SWINGING NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION, with CECIL BROOKS III
and the CBIII BAND, DON BRADEN, ROSEANNA VITRO, and PHIL FIELDS
featuring D-SLYCE. $75.00
admission includes full dinner buffet, champange toast and party
favors.
NOVEMBER 5, 2003: Famed
comedian BILL COSBY
appeared in Cecil's, to a SOLD OUT HOUSE! The event was covered
by national news media, including CNN.
DIRECTIONS TO CECIL'S:
By CAR:
Cecil's is very easy to find and has its own parking lot.
From New York City:
Take the Lincoln Tunnel to the New Jersey Turnpike South, to
Exit 15W (I-280 West). Follow I-280 and stay in the left lanes at
the split (avoiding the Oraton Pkwy). Take Exit 10 (W. Orange, S.
Orange, Monclair) and at the end of the ramp (at the traffic
light), take a right turn onto Northfield Ave. Then take a right
turn at the next light (Valley Road). Cecil's is 1/10 of a mile
down, on the left side.