The Beat Hotel proudly presenta The Doug Johnson Quartet featuring Chris Cheek on Thursday, March 27 at 9:00 PM at 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 presenta The Doug Johnson Quartet featuring Chris Cheek on Thursday, March 27 at 9:00 PM at 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 Boston’s 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 Swallow’s Quintet, Guillermo Klein’s “Los Guachos” and the newly formed Axis Saxophone Quartet alongside Joshua Redman, Chris Potter and Mark Turner. In addition to appearing on numerous CD’s 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 Jordan Perlson. Lauded by Jazz Times magazine for his “great dexterity,” 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 graduate of Berklee, New York based drummer Jordan Perlson has shared the stage with jazz greats such as Dave Liebman, Hiromi, Chris Potter, Greg Osby and more.
The concert will feature original music and newly arranged standards. “Much of the original music for these shows is inspired by the particular sounds and music of each of these wonderful musicians,” says Johnson, “the lyrical gift and uniquely personal sound of Chris Cheek, the rhythmic sense and colors created by Jordan Perlson and the sounds and the anchor provided by Edward Perez have all inspired new music which you can hear at the Beehive and the Beat Hotel.”
The Beat Hotel is thrilled to present The Doug Johnson Quartet on March 27th at 9pm. The Beat Hotel functions as a full service restaurant and bar.
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