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Measures of Brilliance: A Jazz Tribute to an American Icon

November 3, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Date: Friday, November 3
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 pm
Cost: $15 member, $25 non-member
Price includes (1) drink ticket for beer or wine

The Club continues its Friday Night Jazz series with an exclusive evening featuring two veteran jazz musicians and faculty members from Williams College’s Music Department – Avery Sharpe and Kris Allen. Sharpe and Allen will give a special performance featuring compositions and arrangements inspired by the life and work of George Washington Carver. This session will use America’s most original art form – interwoven with anecdotes – to celebrate one of America’s great icons.

Avery Sharpe has played electric and acoustic bass with jazz legends such as Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny and McCoy Tyner, playing in Tyner’s sextet and trio from 1980 through 2002. He has also played as a sideman with Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Dizzy Gillespie, and Cab Callaway. Currently, Sharpe is an Artist Associate at Williams College where he coaches jazz combos and the gospel choir.

Kris Allen, alto saxophonist, has enjoyed a long career as a sought-after sideman, working in the groups of Illinois Jacquet, Gerald Wilson, Andy Gonzales, Jimmy Greene, Helen Sung, Winard Harper, and Andy Laverne, among others. Allen is a founding member of the collaborative Jazz Samaritan Alliance and the Hartford Legacy Big Band, and as a composer has been honored with numerous awards and commissions.  A dedicated educator, Allen is currently the Lyell B. Clay Artist-In-Residence in Jazz at Williams College.

Reservations are required and can be made at programs@williamsclub.org.  Reservations become final sale on Wednesday, November 1.

The Williams Club and the Princeton Club of New York proudly co-sponsor this event.

 

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Date:
November 3, 2017
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm