Eddie Allen Quartet At WCT

The Eddie Allen Quartet is a well-respected jazz combo with a wealth of performance experience. Joining Allen on trumpet at WCT will be Oscar Perez on keyboard, Gregory Jones on acoustic bass and Jerome Jennings on drums. The group will play at WCT’s Black Box, 23 Water St. in Ossining, NY.

Trumpeter, composer, arranger, author, educator, Allen is known as a versatile musician on the New York scene. He has worked with such musical legends as Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Bette Midler, Etta Jones & Houston Person, Aretha Franklin, Randy Weston, John Mayer, Henry Threadgill, Gladys Knight, Gloria Gaynor, Benny Carter, T.S. Monk and Kool & the Gang.

Allen has performed in the orchestras of such Broadway hits as Ain’t Misbehavin’, Black & Blue, Side Show, Jelly’s Last Jam, Five Guys Named Mo’, The Color Purple and Rollin’ On the T.O.B.A. He is the author of the instructional method book, An Introduction to The Bb Concert Blues (Charles Colin Publishing - N.Y.C.).

Allen currently leads a jazz quartet, a jazz quintet, an Afro-Cuban/Brazilian septet called Salongo, a jazz septet named Push, and a 16-piece big band, the Eddie Allen Aggregation.

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