About Us

Since its beginning the band has demonstrated its ability to perform the music of jazz greats from Duke Ellington to John Coltrane and even the new music masters of today such as Phillip Mossman, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett and Bobby Watson. This also includes the music styles of the contemporary jazz masters such as Grover Washington Jr., Art Porter, Najee, and David Sanborn. His band repertoire includes Kevin's own compositions and favorites of the swing era, funky standards by the jazz greats, and an array of styles form various jazz idioms, funk, fusion, swing, bop, reggae, and latin.

Not only has Kevin Flowers performed all over world as a guest artist of many jazz greats such as Harry Connick Jr., Roy Hargrove, Bobby Watson, David Haynes, Hanibal Peterson, and Richard Davis. He has headlined jazz festivals in Berlin and played in several of the majors clubs throughout Germany such as, Berlin: Quasimodo Jazz Club, A-Trane, Franz Club, Frankfurt: Jazz Life, Jazz Keller, Jazz Kneipe, Munich: The Unterfahrt, Heidelberg: Cave 54.

The leader and saxophonists, Kevin Flowers, have brought together some of the finest musicians from the Norfolk VA area, to form a unique sound that is constantly maturing into a solid wall of diverse talents. His saxophone is the heart and nucleus of the group that offers traditional elements of jazz with new and fresh modern tastes of his own personnel American and European experiences.

He is supported by a rhythm section of drums, Leon Alexander, Dexter Whitaker on Bass, and on Guitar Andre Avelino, and Tim McDonald on keyboards that demonstrates its ability to swing and change a groove from one style to the next from the mood or direction of the music.

When the time is called for, he adds one or two horns, Trombone and a trumpet, that makes the sound of pleasure to the listeners ear, with his carefully arranged horn lines and harmony its hard to turn away that "wall of sound." For more effect he adds a vocalist. It is well know that words are a key factor in music. With the vocals of James Dewberry, singing any style with the band and can "whoo" the crowd at any given moment. Even when the audience native tongue is not English the pitches of the vocalist can overwhelm any audience. The combination of his horn and rhythm creates a fascinating sound that forces the listener to truly concentrate on the mood of the music. Be it the "fat accompaniment" of a saxophone background lick backing up a solo or a "locked grove" of the rhythm section makes the audience snap their fingers or clap their hands. If the aforementioned does not give you enough then a down home "straight ahead" solo will give the feeling of being back in the cool-era. This total package not only plays the music, but also puts on a show that gives visual impact. They give the audience something to focus upon wile hear the beautiful sounds coming out of the band. Nonetheless the Kevin Flowers Band can be summed in four words: spontaneous, diverse, powerful and entertaining.