TODAY IN NYC: "THE MASTERS" QUARTET AT BIRDLAND
"The Masters" Quartet: Steve Kuhn (piano), Dave Liebman (sax), Steve Swallow (bass), Billy Drummond (drums) will perform at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080 - ) Tuesday through Saturday, September 7th through 11th with shows at 8:30 & 11:00 pm. For this five-night run, four of the genre's leading instrumentalists come together in a quartet setting to play the best in modern jazz. Pianist Steve Kuhn first put his mark as a sideman with John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, and grew beyond the powerful influence of Bill Evans into a unique stylist with incredible technique and sense of dynamics and lyricism. Saxophonist Dave Liebman has played with some of the best in the business, spending extensive periods as a member of the Miles Davis and Elvin Jones groups. Double bass and bass guitar master and composer Steve Swallow joined the Paul Bley Trio in 1960, subsequently playing in groups led by Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Art Farmer, Stan Getz and Gary Burton. Highly in-demand sideman and drummer Billy Drummond began his career with the Horace Silver Sextet and, later, played with J. J. Johnson and Sonny Rollins. A longtime member of Carla Bley's Lost Chords Quartet as well as the Steve Kuhn Trio, Drummond rounds out this all-star jazz quartet. There is a $30-$40 cover plus a $10 food/drink minimum.
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