(TUCKERTON, NJ) -- The Lizzie Rose Music Room presents The Rachel Z Trio featuring Omar Hakim on Saturday, February 8, 2025. Rachel Z is a keyboardist with a long history of award-winning performances in the worlds of jazz and rock. Omar Hakim is widely known as a rock and pop, jazz and jazz fusion drummer / producer / composer and arranger. Doors are at 7:00pm, showtime is 7:30pm.
Rachel Z co-wrote the Grammy-winning song ‘Tokyo Blue’ with saxophonist Najee. In addition to her 13 albums as bandleader and her work in internationally acclaimed bands such as Steps Ahead, Vertú, the Omar Hakim Experience, she has played and toured with artists like Wayne Shorter (on the Grammy-winning album High Life), Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Terri Lyne Carrington, Al Di Meola, and Regina Carter. Rachel came to worldwide prominence in the rock world in the Peter Gabriel concert films Growing Up Live and Still Growing Up Live.
Since 2000, she has been a Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music Studies at The New School University in New York. She is also a Professor of Jazz Studies and Electronic Music at Montclair State University and Cali School of the Arts sing 2022.
Omar Hakim's lengthy associations with Weather Report, Miles Davis, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Sting, Madonna, Kate Bush, Dire Straits, Daft Punk, Brian Ferry, Michael Jackson, The Pussycat Dolls, Journey and countless others put him in a category that has uniquely imprinted the sound of these artists on both performances and recordings. Omar has recorded on over 100 albums and has extensive producer and composer credits.
Tickets are $45 in advance and $50 at the door. Tickets are available for purchase online. Lizzie Rose Music Room is located at 217 East Main Street in Tuckerton, New Jersey. Free parking is available.
The Lizzie Rose Music Room is a "listening room", not a bar or restaurant. They present a variety of music including blues, jazz, bluegrass, country, rock, soul, singer-songwriters, and more.
