Special EFX All-Stars
Featuring Chieli Minucci, Eric Marienthal, Elliott Yamin,
Karen Briggs, Lao Tizer, Joel Rosenblatt, Dave Livolsi
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2025 AT 12:00 PM
DOUBLETREE GRAND BALLROOM
Special EFX, the GRAMMY-nominated Contemporary Jazz Supergroup with 29 combined albums, 7 Billboard #1’s and decades of domestic and international touring to their credit! Featuring a musical mix of renowned musicians and vocalists, all with extensive credits to their names.
Guitarist, composer, producer, and arranger Chieli Minucci is 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.
In the summer of 2024, “Cool Summer”, reached the #1 spot on Billboard, a total of 5 charts simultaneously!
Chieli has also recently released 3 brand new projects – “Return to Budapest With Love”, the archived, 1990 live concert recording of Special EFX from their early days on tour in Europe, solo project, and mainly acoustic “Someone’s Singing”, as well as his 40th anniversary Special EFX CD, “Twenty Twenty 2” (both ChieliMusic). Chieli & Special EFX’s previous release saw title track, “Deep as the Night”, win Billboard Magazine’s 2018 top honors, best-song-of-the-year.
ARTIST WEBSITES: Special EFX All-Stars