Featuring Buster Williams, bass & Matt Wilson, drums
SUMMER EAST COAST PERFORMANCES
Tuesday, August 29
Scullers Jazz Club
at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Boston 400 Soldiers Road
Boston, MA 02134
Shows at 8 & 10
For Tickets and Information: 617.562.4111
Email: [email protected]
Thursday, August 31 thru Sunday, Sept. 3
Iridium Jazz Club
1650 Broadway (51st St.)
New York, NY 10019
Shows: 8:30pm and 10:30pm Sunday through Thursday
8:30pm, 10:30pm, and Midnight on Friday and Saturday
Tel : 212 582 2121
Fax: 212 974 0833
Email: [email protected]
Denny Zeitlin, internationally renowned jazz pianist-composer- psychiatrist, brings his world-class trio to the East Coast this summer, featuring award winners Buster Williams on bass, and Matt Wilson, drums.
Denny Zeitlin has recorded over thirty albums; twice won first place in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics Poll; written original music for Sesame Street; appeared on Network TV, including CBS Sunday Morning and repeats on the Tonight Show; and composed the critically acclaimed electronic-acoustic-symphonic score for “Invasion of the Body Snatchers." He has concertized throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Europe, and has appeared with jazz greats such as Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bobby Hutcherson, Charlie Haden, Marian McPartland, David Friesen, and many others.
Buster Williams and Matt Wilson are on the short list of most highly sought out jazz musicians in the world. In the many years of their contributions to the jazz scene, they have appeared on hundreds of albums and performed around the globe with players that constitute a “who's who" of jazz. Buster Williams is particularly well known for his work with Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock. His awards include a Grammy and a NEA grant. Matt Wilson has made contributions to a wide stylistic array of artists, including Dewey Redman, Janis Siegal, Michael Brecker, Fred Hersch, and Lee Konitz. In the late 90s, he was named “Best New Artist" by the New York Jazz Critics Circle, chosen by Downbeat Magazine as one of “The 25 for the Future," and won first place in their critics' poll in 2003. In addition to their collaborations with other musicians, both Buster and Matt lead and record with their own groups.
Denny Zeitlin has led a series of groundbreaking trios since his first recordings for Columbia in the 60s. He has been performing with Buster and Matt since 2001, and the trio released their critically acclaimed Slickrock on Maxjazz in 2004. They come to Scullers and the Iridium reverberating with a year punctuated by performances at the Litchfield, Chicago, Monterey, San Francisco, and Hollywood Florida Jazz Festivals, where they played to packed venues and standing ovations.
“Zeitlin unfurls some of the most intriguing, idiosyncratic jazz piano to be heard these days ... he plays with a degree of freedom and musical curiosity one doesn't regularly encounter"--Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
“There was a sense of play, creativity, and boldness; one felt the power of improvisation as a skill and as an almost philosophical endeavor"--Ben Ratliff, New York Times
For more information contact All About Jazz.
