Wild Eye Pub, 535 Mill St, Grass Valley, CA 95945, USA
About The Event
International jazz recording artist Greg Abate makes a stop in Grass Valley for this night of straight ahead jazz with Matt Langley. Greg is featured on Sax and Flute, and Matt on Sax. Greg and Matt have performed together many times in the east. This will be the first time the two will perform together since Matt’s move to Nevada County,CA.
Joining Greg and Matt are Kit Bailey on Drums, Joe Carlson on Bass and Alan Feeney on Keys, all individual master artists who perform frequently in various bands and ensembles across Northern CA and beyond.
On A Song of Hope, his second album for Whaling City Sound, saxophonist Eric Wyatt offers more than hope; he offers assurance that contemporary jazz is alive and well in and around his home base of Brooklyn, NY. Wyatt, the godson of another rather well-known saxophonist, Sonny Rollins, performs in groups of various sizes, from quartet to octet, with vocals by Samara Joy on two numbers, “Fragile” and Wyatt’s “Say Her Name.” The almost-constants are pianist Donald Vega, bassist Eric Wheeler and drummer Jeff Watts, who are on board for eight numbers but step aside for a pair of Wyatt-Watts duets and are replaced by bassist Mike Boone and his talented fourteen-year-old son, drummer Mekhi Boone, on John Coltrane‘s “Central Park West” and McCoy Tyner‘s “Contemplation.”
Watch Jeff “Tain” Watts and Delbert Felix meet after over 25 years!
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