STEVE JOHNS
January 16 @ 7:30 pm ~10:30 pm EST
Celebrating the release of Steve Johns latest recording “Mythology” for the Steeplechase label.He has played with John Hicks, Larry Coryell, Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz, Diane Schuur, Roy Hargrove, Randy Brecker, Stanley Turrentine, Thomas Chapin, and Benny Carter. He has toured the U.S. with the Count Basie Orchestra and Europe with the Gil Evans Orchestra and the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra conducted by Gunther Schuller.
Johns played with George Russell’s Living Time Orchestra from 1988 to 1993 and has been playing with the Mingus Big Band. He played in the Billy Taylor Trio on Jazz At The Kennedy Center, the radio show hosted by Taylor, for five years. More recently, he has played with Sonny Fortune and Bob DeVos. He has also taught at several music colleges, schools and jazz centers.