Join some of today's hottest performers at BB King's Blues Club and Grill on Saturday, March 27 for Hot & Cool NEC Jazz 40th Summit. The event features keyboardist JOHN MEDESKI and drummer BILLY MARTIN of Medeski, Martin & Wood with turntable maestro DJ LOGIC; Parliament / Funkadelic founding member keyboardist BERNIE WORRELL whose new group SociaLybrium is taking the world by storm; MacArthur Fellowship winning composer/pianist RAN BLAKE; drummer ANTON FIG of the David Letterman show; contemporary bluegrass prodigy" and NEC student SARAH JAROSZ who has earned wide acclaim for her debut CD Song Up in Her Head; jazz vocal legend DOMINIQUE EADE, guitarist JOE MORRIS who's earned a reputation as one of jazz's most exciting and original players; pianist/composer JASON MORAN who creates some of the best live jazz around today; pianist MATTHEW SHIPP, one of the leading lights of his generation; and the joyous and bold music of LAKE STREET DIVE (Rachael Price, Michael Calabrese, Bridget Kearney, Mike Olson). Host for the evening will be WBGO's JOSH JACKSON, and proceeds will support jazz scholarships at NEC.
7:30 p.m. Tickets $25 + $10 drink minimum.
B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill, 237 W. 42nd Street, NYC
212-997-4144
This performance is part of a week-long New York celebration of NECs first-in-the-nation Jazz Studies program. With a faculty that has included 5 MacArthur genius" grant winners and 4 NEA Jazz Masters, and alumni that reads like a who's who of jazz, NEC's Jazz Studies Program has spawned numerous Grammy winning composers and performers. As Mike West writes in JazzTimes: Four decades after its founding, NEC's jazz studies department is among the most acclaimed and successful in the world; so says the roster of visionary artists that have comprised both its faculty and alumni."