If you like jazz, you will love this thrilling trio of New York jazz nobility.
Sylvia Cuenca leads from the drummer’s throne. A touring veteran with Joe Henderson, Clark Terry and Eddie Henderson, Sylvia has swung with a raft of masters—Al Grey, Jimmy Heath, Frank Wess, Marian McPartland, Joe Williams, Billy Taylor, Kenny Barron, Michael Brecker, Hilton Ruiz, Gary Bartz, Dianne Reeves and Dianne Schuur among them.
Sylvia memorably joined Tootie Heath, Louis Hayes and Joe Saylor at Dizzy’s in 2015 for “The Whole Drum Truth,” a breathtakingly musical conference of rhythm masters. This July, Sylvia joined a faculty including Regina Carter, Kenny Barron, Terri Lyne Carrington, Tia Fuller and Stefon Harris for an all-female jazz residency at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center....
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If you like jazz, you will love this thrilling trio of New York jazz nobility.
Sylvia Cuenca leads from the drummer’s throne. A touring veteran with Joe Henderson, Clark Terry and Eddie Henderson, Sylvia has swung with a raft of masters—Al Grey, Jimmy Heath, Frank Wess, Marian McPartland, Joe Williams, Billy Taylor, Kenny Barron, Michael Brecker, Hilton Ruiz, Gary Bartz, Dianne Reeves and Dianne Schuur among them.
Sylvia memorably joined Tootie Heath, Louis Hayes and Joe Saylor at Dizzy’s in 2015 for “The Whole Drum Truth,” a breathtakingly musical conference of rhythm masters. This July, Sylvia joined a faculty including Regina Carter, Kenny Barron, Terri Lyne Carrington, Tia Fuller and Stefon Harris for an all-female jazz residency at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Riel Lazarus commends Cuenca’s “mix of power and restraint…providing energetic yet unobtrusive color from start to finish.”
Essiet Okon Essiet began his professional music career with Famoudou Don Moye and Abdullah Ibrahim before joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers—Art’s last bassist. He received critical acclaim as a member of saxophonist Bobby Watson’s post hard bop group Horizon. He is now one of the premier bassists in jazz. He’s performed with Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, James Moody, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Azar Lawrence, Cedar Walton, Sam Rivers, Pat Martino, Kenny Burrell, Jackie McLean, Kenny Barron, Louis Hayes, Billy Higgins, Art Farmer, Abby Lincoln, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Steve Turre, Kenny Garrett, Mulgrew Miller and Jeff “Tain” Watts—and that’s the short list.
Essiet leads his own group “IBO,” a Nigerian jazz project which mixes jazz harmonies with West African rhythms.
Dave Kikoski is a phenomenon, having played on over 100 records, including 18 as leader. Perhaps you caught him at this year’s Center City Jazz Festival in a spellbinding performance with Alex Claffy and Justin Faulkner. Talk about exuberance! I can’t wait to hear him in this ensemble.
A Berklee graduate, Kikoski moved to New York City in 1985, touring and recording, subsequently, with Roy Haynes, Randy Brecker, Bob Berg and Billy Hart. He won a 2011 Grammy Award with the Mingus Big Band for “Live at the Jazz Standard” He also had a Grammy nomination with Roy Haynes for the “Birds of a Feather" CD.
His first trio album as leader featured Eddie Gomez and Al Foster. Subsequent albums chronicle comrades the likes of Seamus Blake, Alex Sipiagin, Boris Kozlov, Donald Edwards, Billy Hart, Essiet Essiet, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Scott Colley, John Patitucci and Christian McBride.
Please join us. We’re talking modernist, energetic straight-ahead jazz with this trio—the kind some of us live for.
Cuenca • Essiet • Kikoski
7-10 pm Thursday, September 27
1220 N. Mascher St. (steps away from the Girard Ave. El stop) [map]
We contemplate a $25 donation to support the musicians and provide appropriate refreshments.
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Matt Yaple
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@exuberance parties at Matt’s are by invitation only to provide a dignified, comfortable and acoustically ideal setting for worthwhile art and ideas. Cellphones and other devices are to be holstered during the performances. Between sets, conviviality rules.
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