SNARKY PUPPY

Snarky Puppy is an American instrumental ensemble led by bassist Michael League. Founded in 2004, Snarky Puppy combines a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk and has won four Grammy Awards. The once Texan, now New York-based quasi-collective Snarky Puppy has gone from the best-kept secret to one of the most respected names in instrumental music.

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CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE QUARTET

Christian McBride is an American jazz bassist, composer and arranger. He has appeared on more than 300 recordings as a sideman, and is an eight-time Grammy Award winner. This group was the original Joshua Redman touring quartet of the 1990s.

Christian McBride ~ Double Bass

Joshua Redman ~ Saxophone

Brad Mehldau ~ Piano

Brian Blade ~ Drums

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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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