GARY MOTLEY

Late Night Jazz Lab: Muse & The Flame Sessions with Gary Motley Quartet live at Eddie’s Attic!

Join us for an electrifying evening of jazz innovation as acclaimed pianist Gary Motley and his dynamic ensemble featuring Terreon Gulley, drums, Rod Harris, guitar, and Andy Eulau, bass, transform Eddie’s Attic into an intimate jazz laboratory. This unique 90-minute experience combines masterful performance with hands-on learning in Atlanta’s premier listening room.

The Evening Unfolds

9:00 PM – Experience the artistry of Gary Motley Quartet as they showcase selections from his latest project “Muse and The Flame,” featuring original compositions that blend traditional jazz vocabulary with contemporary innovation.

Interactive Jazz Lab

The evening features a special workshop segment where a selected student quartet will perform, receiving real-time guidance and insights from the pros. This rare opportunity offers musicians and audiences alike a glimpse into the collaborative spirit of jazz mastery.

His latest album, “Muse and the Flame,” features bassist Edwin Livingston and drummer Clarence Penn, adding to a catalog that showcases his distinct voice at the piano. When he’s not performing at major jazz festivals across the U.S. and internationally, you’ll find him at Emory University, where he founded the Jazz Studies program. There, he launched a technology-based Jazz Studio, reimagining how jazz education meets the digital age.

Tickets: $20.00 ~ $25.00

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JULIUS RODRIGUEZ

His genre-defying greatness, from jazz and gospel to hyperpop and ambient, Julius Rodriguez shatters musical boundaries—crafting a sound that’s boldly experimental yet unmistakably his own.

Multi-instrumental mastery whether he’s behind the piano, drums, bass, or guitar, Julius brings unmatched energy and finesse—blazing through each set with fearless creativity and technical brilliance.

Evergreen energy with music that transcends time and trend, Julius invites you into his ever-evolving sonic world—a place where you can move, reflect, and feel something real.

Tickets: $28.00 | VIP Experience: $200.00

Shows: 6:30pm & 9:00pm

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KENNY GARRETT

Newly named an NEA Jazz Master in 2023, saxophonist Kenny Garrett is one of the most powerfully expressive, uplifting, and influential instrumentalists and bandleaders of our time. Kenny’s fiery quintet swings into Keystone Korner Baltimore for 2 nights, Saturday & Sunday, April 26th & 27th, to celebrate his latest release, Sounds From The Ancestors, which reflects the rich jazz, R&B, and gospel history of his hometown of Detroit and deeply resonates with the Afro-Caribbean rhythms of Cuba, Nigeria and Guadeloupe.

With his illustrious career that includes hallmark stints with Miles Davis, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, as well as a heralded career as a solo artist that began more than 30 years ago, Kenny Garrett is easily recognized as one of modern jazz’s brightest and most influential living masters. And with the marvelous Sounds From The Ancestors, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Garrett shows no signs of resting on his laurels.

Kenny Garrett ~ saxophones
Keith Brown ~ piano
Corcoran Holt ~ bass
Rudy Bird ~ percussion
Ronald Bruner ~ drums
Melvin Santa ~ vocals & keys

Tickets: $45 – $55 | $4.16 – $4.86 Fees

Shows: Saturday ~ 6:00pm & 8:30pm | Sunday ~ 5:00pm & 7:30pm

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DAVE STRYKER TRIO

Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker leading his own group (with 30 CD’s as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.” Hot House magazine awarded him Best Guitarist Fans Decision for 2017.  He was recently voted once again as one of the top Jazz Guitarists in the 2019 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls for the 10th time.

Warren Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore, MD. From the young age of three years old, Warren has been trained on the Vibraphone/Marimba, Drums, and Piano. Under the guidance of his father Warren Wolf Sr., Warren has a deep background in all genres of music. Vibraphonist Warren Wolf is one of the hardest swinging virtuosos in all of modern music.

The Band:

Dave Stryker – Guitar
Warren Wolf – Vibes
Jared Gold – Organ
McClenty Hunter – Drums

Tickets: $35 – $45 | $3.46 – $4.16 Fees

Shows: 6:00pm & 8:30pm

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SEAN JONES, DAVE BALLOU & REX RICHARDSON

Trumpet Project

Music and spirituality have always been intertwined in the artistic vision of trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and activist Sean Jones. He has performed at and/or with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis ensemble, SFJAZZ Collective, Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Gerald Wilson, and Marcus Miller. He is president of the Jazz Education Network and holds the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair in Jazz Studies at The John Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in Baltimore. As well as artistic Director for the NYO JAZZ Program of Carnegie Hall.

Trumpeter/Composer Dave Ballou can be heard in a variety of settings; from solo trumpet improvisations to large ensembles performing notated compositions. Ballou has performed or recorded with ensembles led by Rabih Abou-Kahlil, Steely Dan, Michael Formanek, Woody Herman, Andrew Hill, John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble, Sheila Jordan, Oliver Lake, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Dewey Redman and Maria Schneider.  Ballou is a Professor of Music at Towson University and member of the Jazz/Commercial music division and director of the Murray Jazz residency.

Renowned as champion of new, genre-busting music featuring the trumpet as a solo voice, Yamaha Performing Artist Rex Richardson was named the 2008 Brass Herald International Personality of the Year, has been called “One of the finest virtuosos of our time” (Brass Herald, 2018). A veteran of the acclaimed chamber ensemble Rhythm & Brass, jazz legend Joe Henderson’s Quintet and Sextet, William Russo’s Chicago Jazz Ensemble, and the world-renowned Brass Band of Battle Creek, his hundreds of soloist appearances include festivals and ensembles on six continents, such as the Phoenix Symphony and Thailand Philharmonic Orchestras, the U.S. Army Field Band and Tokyo Symphonic Winds, England’s Fodens Brass Band, and the U.S. Air Force’s Airmen of Note Jazz Ensemble.

Tickets: $35 – $45 | $3.46 – $4.16 Fees

Sows: Thursday ~ 7:00pm | Friday ~ 6:00pm & 8:30pm

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