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Noce is proud to present a show featuring Max Wellman alongside the Max Wellman Big Band, celebrating the life & music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Initially developed in 2015 following Sinatra’s centennial birthday, the show has been a consistent favorite at Noce, covering some of Sinatra’s early hits from Dorsey days such as All Or Nothing At All, or All Of Me, all the way through the famous concept albums like Only the Lonely & In The Wee Small Hours.
New & Revamped for 2022, the beloved show is back to its full 17 piece Big Band glory, pulling new selections from Sinatra’s extensive catalogue.
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Vocalist Max Wellman is enticing music lovers throughout the region. With a sound evoking the likes of Sinatra and Connick, Wellman’s recordings & performances promise that the Great American Songbook is alive & well for a new generation of listeners.
Wellman co-founded Noce, a state-of-the-art jazz club in the Western Gateway neighborhood of downtown Des Moines. Additionally, Wellman has appeared at some of the great clubs throughout the country, from Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center to Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago to Dazzle in Denver & many in between. Performances alongside vocalist Rose Colella & pianist Annie Booth have been met with rave reviews.

Noce is proud to present a show featuring Max Wellman alongside the Max Wellman Big Band, celebrating the life & music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Initially developed in 2015 following Sinatra’s centennial birthday, the show has been a consistent favorite at Noce, covering some of Sinatra’s early hits from Dorsey days such as All Or Nothing At All, or All Of Me, all the way through the famous concept albums like Only the Lonely & In The Wee Small Hours.
New & Revamped for 2022, the beloved show is back to its full 17 piece Big Band glory, pulling new selections from Sinatra’s extensive catalogue.
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Vocalist Max Wellman is enticing music lovers throughout the region. With a sound evoking the likes of Sinatra and Connick, Wellman’s recordings & performances promise that the Great American Songbook is alive & well for a new generation of listeners.
Wellman co-founded Noce, a state-of-the-art jazz club in the Western Gateway neighborhood of downtown Des Moines. Additionally, Wellman has appeared at some of the great clubs throughout the country, from Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center to Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago to Dazzle in Denver & many in between. Performances alongside vocalist Rose Colella & pianist Annie Booth have been met with rave reviews.

“Elaine Dame has risen to the top ranks of Chicago Jazz Singers” – Neil Tesser, Playboy Guide to Jazz
Elaine Dame sings – and people stop and listen. Since 1996, the woman Time Out Chicago calls “a jazz dynamo” and “a gem in the city’s vocal jazz scene” has been turning heads at the nation’s finest clubs and venues. From her multiple appearances at the world-famous Rainbow Roomand Michael Feinstein’s 54 Below in New York City to her performances at the 2015 and 2017 Chicago Jazz Festival to headlining venerable jazz venues across the country, Elaine brings her virtuosic interpretations to vintage vocal classics and modern standards alike.
It’s the joy she exudes with every note that makes Elaine’s performances unforgettable. A graduate of The Theater Repertory Program at California State Northridge, Elaine worked for years in Chicago’s theater scene before turning her whole focus to jazz. She’s a singer who understands the importance of stage presence. It’s no wonder the Chicago Reader wrote, “Ms.Dame has a winning stage presence and chameleon-like vocal flexibility.”

Annie Booth is a versatile and award-winning composer and jazz pianist based in Denver, CO. She has established herself as an active force on the local and national scene as a composer and leader-performer of her many projects (the Annie Booth Trio, Sextet, and Big Band) and as a busy side-musician. Booth holds a Bachelors of Music Performance (summa cum laude, 2011) and a Masters of Music in Jazz Performance and Pedagogy (summa cum laude, 2020) from the Thompson Jazz Studies Program at the University of Colorado. When Annie is not performing, traveling or composing, she is an in-demand educator, on faculty at the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts (CCJA) and maintaining an active schedule as a guest clinician, artist, and adjudicator at jazz festivals and high school and university programs across the U.S. and Canada. She is currently on adjunct faculty at the University of Northern Colorado, teaching jazz piano and jazz arranging.

Dr. Damani Philips is a native of Pontiac, MI, and currently serves as Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of African-American Studies at the University of Iowa. Phillips has earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from DePaul University and The University of Kentucky in classical saxophone, a second Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Wayne State University and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Jazz Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. An active performer, pedagogue and lecturer, Phillips has taught and performed throughout the world. He has previously served on the faculty of Grinnell College and Oakland University, and is actively sought as a guest artist, clinician, adjudicator and presenter throughout the country. He has performed with artists/groups such as Lewis Nash, Christian McBride, Wycliffe Gordon, Bobby McFerrin, Marcus Belgrave, Terrell Stafford, Hank Jones, Red Holloway and Pat Bianchi among many others. He has released 5 albums as a leader, and published his first book “What Is This Thing Called Soul: Conversations on Black Culture and Jazz Education” in 2017.

Every Thursday night, Noce hosts different jazz musicians to play free of cover.
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Choro Moingona is an instrumental band from Des Moines that plays a Brazilian style of music called choro (or chorinho). Choro, a virtuosic predecessor to samba, arose in Rio de Janeiro during the late-19th century. The cosmopolitan atmosphere and multicultural explosion, rivaling that of New Orleans at the time, gave birth to a music that blended the intricate syncopation of African polyrhythms with the serpentine melodic language of European classical tradition.

Noce is proud to present a show featuring Max Wellman alongside the Max Wellman Big Band, celebrating the life & music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Initially developed in 2015 following Sinatra’s centennial birthday, the show has been a consistent favorite at Noce, covering some of Sinatra’s early hits from Dorsey days such as All Or Nothing At All, or All Of Me, all the way through the famous concept albums like Only the Lonely & In The Wee Small Hours.
New & Revamped for 2022, the beloved show is back to its full 17 piece Big Band glory, pulling new selections from Sinatra’s extensive catalogue.
––––––––––
Vocalist Max Wellman is enticing music lovers throughout the region. With a sound evoking the likes of Sinatra and Connick, Wellman’s recordings & performances promise that the Great American Songbook is alive & well for a new generation of listeners.
Wellman co-founded Noce, a state-of-the-art jazz club in the Western Gateway neighborhood of downtown Des Moines. Additionally, Wellman has appeared at some of the great clubs throughout the country, from Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center to Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago to Dazzle in Denver & many in between. Performances alongside vocalist Rose Colella & pianist Annie Booth have been met with rave reviews.

Noce is proud to present a show featuring Max Wellman alongside the Max Wellman Big Band, celebrating the life & music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Initially developed in 2015 following Sinatra’s centennial birthday, the show has been a consistent favorite at Noce, covering some of Sinatra’s early hits from Dorsey days such as All Or Nothing At All, or All Of Me, all the way through the famous concept albums like Only the Lonely & In The Wee Small Hours.
New & Revamped for 2022, the beloved show is back to its full 17 piece Big Band glory, pulling new selections from Sinatra’s extensive catalogue.
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Vocalist Max Wellman is enticing music lovers throughout the region. With a sound evoking the likes of Sinatra and Connick, Wellman’s recordings & performances promise that the Great American Songbook is alive & well for a new generation of listeners.
Wellman co-founded Noce, a state-of-the-art jazz club in the Western Gateway neighborhood of downtown Des Moines. Additionally, Wellman has appeared at some of the great clubs throughout the country, from Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center to Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago to Dazzle in Denver & many in between. Performances alongside vocalist Rose Colella & pianist Annie Booth have been met with rave reviews.

Every Thursday night, Noce hosts different jazz musicians to play free of cover.
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Saxophonist/vocalist Dave Bohl is one of the busiest musicians in town. A graduate of Drake University, he’s performed with Aretha Franklin, Idina Menzel, 10,000 Maniacs, and many others. He performs regularly with the Des Moines Big Band, the Tighten Up, Orquesta Alto Maiz, as well as his own quartet. When he’s not performing, you can hear him anchoring news on radio markets throughout the Midwest including Des Moines, Madison, Wisconsin, and Omaha, Nebraska.

Since the 1990s, The Soul Searchers have been one of the most in-demand live music groups in Iowa. The group, whose music is best described as boogie-woogie blues, typically performs more than 100 dates a year at music festivals, bars, wineries, breweries, company gatherings, wedding receptions, and graduation parties. The band’s members, Scott Eggleston (guitar and vocals), Neil Stoffregen (piano and organ), Erich Gaukel (electric and upright basses) and Mark Grimm (drums), are in-demand musicians in Iowa and have toured and performed onstage with Pieta Brown, Bo Ramsey, The Nadas, Sam Salomone, The Turner Center Jazz Orchestra, R.J. Mischo, Rockin’ Johnny, Aki Kumar, Jim Viner’s Incredible B3 Band, among many others.

Gina Gedler and the Soya Vista Jazz Orchestra plays swinging, lounge jazz music from the 50’s thru the 70’s. This is an eight to ten piece ensemble that specializes in cool mainstream lounge jazz music from the 1950’s thru the 1970’s. It is a mixture of big band sound and some reduced combo format music as well. This band features music from Frank Sinatra, The Andrew Sisters, Billie Holiday, Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Peggy Lee and Bessie Smith. The music is lively and hip as well as smooth and sophisticated.

Noce is proud to present a show featuring Max Wellman alongside the Max Wellman Big Band, celebrating the life & music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Initially developed in 2015 following Sinatra’s centennial birthday, the show has been a consistent favorite at Noce, covering some of Sinatra’s early hits from Dorsey days such as All Or Nothing At All, or All Of Me, all the way through the famous concept albums like Only the Lonely & In The Wee Small Hours.
New & Revamped for 2022, the beloved show is back to its full 17 piece Big Band glory, pulling new selections from Sinatra’s extensive catalogue.
––––––––––
Vocalist Max Wellman is enticing music lovers throughout the region. With a sound evoking the likes of Sinatra and Connick, Wellman’s recordings & performances promise that the Great American Songbook is alive & well for a new generation of listeners.
Wellman co-founded Noce, a state-of-the-art jazz club in the Western Gateway neighborhood of downtown Des Moines. Additionally, Wellman has appeared at some of the great clubs throughout the country, from Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center to Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago to Dazzle in Denver & many in between. Performances alongside vocalist Rose Colella & pianist Annie Booth have been met with rave reviews.

Noce is proud to present a show featuring Max Wellman alongside the Max Wellman Big Band, celebrating the life & music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Initially developed in 2015 following Sinatra’s centennial birthday, the show has been a consistent favorite at Noce, covering some of Sinatra’s early hits from Dorsey days such as All Or Nothing At All, or All Of Me, all the way through the famous concept albums like Only the Lonely & In The Wee Small Hours.
New & Revamped for 2022, the beloved show is back to its full 17 piece Big Band glory, pulling new selections from Sinatra’s extensive catalogue.
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Vocalist Max Wellman is enticing music lovers throughout the region. With a sound evoking the likes of Sinatra and Connick, Wellman’s recordings & performances promise that the Great American Songbook is alive & well for a new generation of listeners.
Wellman co-founded Noce, a state-of-the-art jazz club in the Western Gateway neighborhood of downtown Des Moines. Additionally, Wellman has appeared at some of the great clubs throughout the country, from Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center to Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago to Dazzle in Denver & many in between. Performances alongside vocalist Rose Colella & pianist Annie Booth have been met with rave reviews.

Vocalist, Lauren Vilmain is a graduate of Drake University where she majored in vocal performance with a minor in musical theatre. In her studies she fell in love with both the thrill of live performance and the beauty of self-expression. While being classically trained, Lauren also dove into musical theater repertoire. After her studies she found a challenging and deep love for American Jazz music. Her repertoire ranges widely from Nina Simone, Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux to blues artists like Lizz Wright, Tracy Chapman, and Eva Cassidy. She performs locally with NOLA Jazz Band as well as her Quintet and is proud to regular the Noce Jazz Club in Downtown Des Moines. Lauren is privileged to work with some of the best musicians in the state and to collaborate with them for her personal projects.

Noce is proud to present a show featuring Max Wellman alongside the Max Wellman Big Band, celebrating the life & music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Initially developed in 2015 following Sinatra’s centennial birthday, the show has been a consistent favorite at Noce, covering some of Sinatra’s early hits from Dorsey days such as All Or Nothing At All, or All Of Me, all the way through the famous concept albums like Only the Lonely & In The Wee Small Hours.
New & Revamped for 2022, the beloved show is back to its full 17 piece Big Band glory, pulling new selections from Sinatra’s extensive catalogue.
––––––––––
Vocalist Max Wellman is enticing music lovers throughout the region. With a sound evoking the likes of Sinatra and Connick, Wellman’s recordings & performances promise that the Great American Songbook is alive & well for a new generation of listeners.
Wellman co-founded Noce, a state-of-the-art jazz club in the Western Gateway neighborhood of downtown Des Moines. Additionally, Wellman has appeared at some of the great clubs throughout the country, from Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center to Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago to Dazzle in Denver & many in between. Performances alongside vocalist Rose Colella & pianist Annie Booth have been met with rave reviews.

Noce is proud to present a show featuring Max Wellman alongside the Max Wellman Big Band, celebrating the life & music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Initially developed in 2015 following Sinatra’s centennial birthday, the show has been a consistent favorite at Noce, covering some of Sinatra’s early hits from Dorsey days such as All Or Nothing At All, or All Of Me, all the way through the famous concept albums like Only the Lonely & In The Wee Small Hours.
New & Revamped for 2022, the beloved show is back to its full 17 piece Big Band glory, pulling new selections from Sinatra’s extensive catalogue.
––––––––––
Vocalist Max Wellman is enticing music lovers throughout the region. With a sound evoking the likes of Sinatra and Connick, Wellman’s recordings & performances promise that the Great American Songbook is alive & well for a new generation of listeners.
Wellman co-founded Noce, a state-of-the-art jazz club in the Western Gateway neighborhood of downtown Des Moines. Additionally, Wellman has appeared at some of the great clubs throughout the country, from Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center to Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago to Dazzle in Denver & many in between. Performances alongside vocalist Rose Colella & pianist Annie Booth have been met with rave reviews.