From Pops to Bop featuring Craig Bailey, Lewis Nash + Derrick Gardner
Schedule
Fri Apr 08 2022 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
The Jazz Kitchen | Indianapolis, IN
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Craig Bailey returns to The Jazz Kitchen with a brand new sextet featuring Lewis Nash, Derrick Gardner, Rob Dixon, Steve Allee & Nick Tucker exploring Louis Armstrong to bebop to hard bops. Get ready to feel the power from this all-star show.Craig Bailey is a jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist who is known for his warm and lyrical sound, as well as the special rapport he develops with his audience. He loves to invite you in on his experiences and history of playing as a jazz musician. He has played with numerous musicians and bands like Ray Charles as lead alto. Charlie Persip's Superband, Panama Francis and his Savoy Sultans and Tana Reid Quintet.
Lewis Nash is acclaimed “the most valuable player” in jazz (Modern Drummer Magazine) and has one of the longest discographies in jazz and has played on over 400 records. In this jazz mecca, Nash had the incredibly good fortune to join Betty Carter’s band, giving him the opportunity to hone his chops with world-class musicians like Benny Green, Stephen Scott, and Don Braden. Nash also performed with a veritable who’s who of jazz luminaries, including Ron Carter, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Stitt, Art Pepper, Red Garland, Lee Konitz, Barney Kessell and Slide Hampton Cyrus Chestnut, and Horace Silver, to name only a few.
"Swing, swang, swingin’! Splang-a-lang! Snap, crackle, pop! These well-worn words go a long way toward describing this thing of ours we call jazz, but they also illustrate the style of one of the idiom’s modern masters: Lewis Nash. Nash has consistently proven why he’s the first-call drummer in a myriad of splang-a-lang-driven situations. If the rhythm is swinging, chances are Lewis is providing the pulse." - Modern Drummer Magazine
Jazz trumpeter, Derrick Gardner, inspired by the finest hard-blowing funky bop bands of the 1960?s, is working to extend that great tradition as a composer, arranger, performer, leader and educator. With extraordinary, creative natural talent, Derrick quickly made his mark upon arriving on the New York jazz scene in 1991. There he began a top-flight career that has taken him around the world performing internationally with the Count Basie Orchestra, (1991-present), Frank Foster?s Loud Minority Band, Harry Connick Jr.?s Big Band, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and Swiss tenor player Roman Schwaller?s European Sextet. Over the last 18 years Derrick has worked with a tremendous litany of artists that include late Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Frank Foster, Jon Faddis, Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, Rufus Reid and Clark Terry.
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Where is it happening?
The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N College Ave, Indianapolis, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
