The Beat Hotel proudly presents The Doug Johnson Quartet featuring Chris Cheek on Thursday November 14 at 9:00 PM The Beat Hotel. The Beat Hotel is located at 13 Brattle Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge. More information can be found by online by visiting www.beathotel.com.
An active member of the Boston jazz scene, Doug Johnson is an accomplished pianist and composer who has played alongside a cascading list of legendary jazz musicians. Johnson has played extensively alongside Grammy Award winning bassist Esperanza Spalding as well as legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods. Other jazz musicians Johnson has played alongside include Terri Lyne Carrington, Luciana Souza and Jerry Bergonzi, among others. His most recent release is The Doug Johnson Trio, Live at the Royal Garden. Johnson is currently an Associate Professor of Piano at Berklee College and on faculty at Wesleyan University....
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The Beat Hotel proudly presents The Doug Johnson Quartet featuring Chris Cheek on Thursday November 14 at 9:00 PM The Beat Hotel. The Beat Hotel is located at 13 Brattle Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge. More information can be found by online by visiting www.beathotel.com.
An active member of the Boston jazz scene, Doug Johnson is an accomplished pianist and composer who has played alongside a cascading list of legendary jazz musicians. Johnson has played extensively alongside Grammy Award winning bassist Esperanza Spalding as well as legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods. Other jazz musicians Johnson has played alongside include Terri Lyne Carrington, Luciana Souza and Jerry Bergonzi, among others. His most recent release is The Doug Johnson Trio, Live at the Royal Garden. Johnson is currently an Associate Professor of Piano at Berklee College and on faculty at Wesleyan University.
Joining Doug Johnson is saxophone giant Chris Cheek. A graduate of Bostonโs Berklee College of Music, Cheek has been a fixture on the New York jazz scene since his arrival to New York in 1992. Over the past 20 years, Cheek has performed with Paul Motian, Brian Blade, Brad Mehldau, and Kurt Rosenwinkle, among others. Currently, Cheek plays with the Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout, Rudder, Steve Swallowโs Quintet, Guillermo Kleinโs โLos Guachosโ and the newly formed Axis Saxophone Quartet alongside Joshua Redman, Chris Potter and Mark Turner. In addition to appearing on numerous CDโs as a sideman, Cheek has recorded four albums as a leader for Fresh Sound Records.
Also sharing the stage with the aforementioned is bassist Edward Perez and drummer Eric Doob. Lauded by Jazz Times magazine for his โgreat dexterity,โ New York based bassist and composer Edward Perez has toured extensively throughout Europe, South America and Japan, appearing in numerous jazz festivals as well as the principal New York jazz clubs. A diverse bassist who is equally versed in modern jazz and Latin jazz, Perez has shared the stage with such luminaries as Lee Konitz, Mark Turner, Seamus Blake, Ignacio Berroa, The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Hector Martignon, and Lionel Loueke. A 2006 graduate from Berklee, Eric Doob began his career by touring with nine-time Grammy Award winner Paquito DโRivera. He has also toured with Miguel Zenon, Christian Scott and Victor Prieto, among others. He has appeared as a guest artist with Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as with the NDR Big Band of Hamburg, Germany.
The concert will feature original music and newly arranged standards. โMuch of the original music for these shows is inspired by the particular sounds and music of each of these wonderful musicians,โ says Johnson, โthe lyrical gift and uniquely personal sound of Chris Cheek, the rhythmic sense and colors created by the Eric Doob and the sounds and the anchor provided by Edward Perez have all inspired new music which you can hear at The Beat Hotel.โ
The Beat Hotel is thrilled to present The Doug Johnson Quartet on November 14th at 9pm. The Beat Hotel function as a full service restaurant and bar.
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