The highly regarded Julian Gerstin Sextet at Stage 33 Live on Sunday, September 29 at 7:00 PM. $20 in advance through http://stage33live.com or at the door. Advance ticket sales close Saturday at midnight, or when the 40 tickets are gone. Tickets at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Limited seating! The performance will be recorded and filmed.
The Julian Gerstin Sextet includes some of New England's most creative talents: clarinet virtuoso Anna Patton; versatile trumpeter Don Anderson; pianist Eugene Uman, who ranges across traditions and from funky grooves to experimentalism; bassist Wes Brown, whose career spans gigs with early jazz master Earl 'Fatha' Hines to avant-gardists like Wadada Leo Smith and Anthony Braxton; Ben James, who was John Tchicai's drummer for several years and can both swing and go wild.
Julian Gerstin has spent a lifetime playing music of the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S. — funk, R&B, and jazz. He's lived and studied in Martinique, Cuba and Ghana, mastering dozens of percussion instruments and hundreds of traditional rhythms. On a given song you might hear him playing congas, jawbone, an enormous beaded shaker, or the tanbou drum of Martinique on which he sits and uses his heel to change the pitch.
Gerstin founded the Sextet to bring his wide range of instruments and influences to a jazz setting, where they serve as a platform for his fellow musicians' creativity.
Global jazz with lively Caribbean drums and sparkling trumpet, velvety clarinet and muscular piano, by turns lyrical and humorous, intense and peaceful, grooving and thoughtful, and always surprising.
"Global sensibilities on full display… Infusing jazz composition and instrumentation with his worldly orientation and rhythmic arsenal, Gerstin teases out the African and Caribbean elements so prevalent in jazz." — JazzIz Magazine
"Full of danceable grooves, along with swirling irresistible ensemble playing and strong solos that are easy to listen to but far from being easy listening music… A magical musical stew." — Ron Weinstock, Jazz and Blues Report
Julian Gerstin Sextet at Stage 33 Live on Sunday, September 29 at 7:00 PM.
$20 in advance through http://stage33live.com or at the door.
Advance tickets guarantee entry. Limited seating.
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