TOM HARRELL QUINTET

The trumpeter Tom Harrell has been doing this a long time, through various schools and vogues: He can play slow and fast and in between, sometimes all within a single line. But his improvising is always temperate and proportionate. He keeps you on the hook, but doesn’t shout, doesn’t stop the clock. Plenty of improvisers are specialists in now-ness, revealing a solo as a series of events, or present-tense flashes. With Mr. Harrell, it’s all one event. He’s always processing ahead and behind, and you feel as if you’re hearing the whole of the narrative at all times, from was to is to will be.

Tom Harrell – Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Dayna Stephens – Saxophone

Luis Perdomo – Piano

Ugonna Okegwo – Bass

Adam Cruz – Drums

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DONNY MCCASLIN QUINTET

For more than two decades, protean saxist and composer Donny McCaslin has relentlessly expanded his musical purview in a variety of ensemble settings: as a sideman, as the pilot of his own diverse groups and, more recently, as a collaborator on the late Bowie’s final album, Blackstar. That investment in genres outside of jazz is visible on the tenorist’s recent work.

Donny McCaslin – Saxophone

Gregoire Maret – Harmonica

Julian Lage – Guitar

Scott Colley – Bass

Johnathan Blake – Drums

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BEN WENDEL QUARTET

Ben Wendel is a naturally inquisitive musician whose credentials branch out beyond jazz. He briefly toured with Snoop Dogg. He’s a member of Kneebody, a postmillennial groove band with a sizable following, as well as an accomplished solo artist and producer.

Ben Wendel – Saxophone

Gerald Clayton  – Piano

Linda May Han Oh – Bass

Obed Calvaire – Drums

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RAVI COLTRANE 3+3

Ravi Coltrane is the son of saxophonist John Coltrane and jazz harpist Alice Coltrane and is a jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has produced pianist Luis Perdomo, guitarist David Gilmore, and trumpeter Ralph Alessi.

Dezron Douglas & Johnathan Blake ~ Oct 25-27

Gadi Lehavi & Éle Howell ~ Oct 28-30

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FRED HERSCH TRIO

In the quest to describe the music of Fred Hersch in a word — a preposterous task, but not a pointless one — you could do a lot worse than “refinement.” Mr. Hersch is a pianist of cultivated taste and erudition; he’s also the sort of jazz musician who brings a lissome elegance to his playing, disinclined to accentuate the effort behind it all. But there’s another definition of refinement that has to do with painstaking progress, the incremental stretch toward an elusive ideal.

Fred Hersch – Piano

Drew Gress – Bass

Jochen Rückert – Drums

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