Benny Golson Tribute - Part 1 at Jazz Monster Concerts at Soka Performing Arts Center

For this performance, the Soka Performing Arts Center presents a dynamic duo of two of the most legendary jazz musicians in the scene. One of jazz's most valuable sidemen BUSTER WILLIAMS is a prodigious artist whose playing knows no limits. Raised and rigorously trained by his father, a bassist, Buster is best known since the 1980s for his solid, dark tone and highly refined technique on the acoustic bass. He reflects, "I've served my apprenticeship under many great masters and feel that it's my honor and privilege to carry on the lineage that makes this music such an artistically rich art form." BENNIE MAUPIN is a Detroit, Michigan jazz multireedist who performs on various saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet. He is noted for having a harmonically-advanced improvisation style, while having a different sense of melodic direction than other jazz musicians in this genre. As a composer, he has an ability to create brief melodies and song forms that create vast landscapes for improvisation....

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For this performance, the Soka Performing Arts Center presents a dynamic duo of two of the most legendary jazz musicians in the scene. One of jazz's most valuable sidemen BUSTER WILLIAMS is a prodigious artist whose playing knows no limits. Raised and rigorously trained by his father, a bassist, Buster is best known since the 1980s for his solid, dark tone and highly refined technique on the acoustic bass. He reflects, "I've served my apprenticeship under many great masters and feel that it's my honor and privilege to carry on the lineage that makes this music such an artistically rich art form." BENNIE MAUPIN is a Detroit, Michigan jazz multireedist who performs on various saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet. He is noted for having a harmonically-advanced improvisation style, while having a different sense of melodic direction than other jazz musicians in this genre. As a composer, he has an ability to create brief melodies and song forms that create vast landscapes for improvisation.

Following the jazz duo will be Grammy-nominated singer and pianist KARRIN ALLYSON and her trio. Audience members and critics alike are marveling at the range of this extraordinary musician. What unites this wide world of music — brings it together and makes sense of it all — is Karrin Allyson’s warmth and depth. The Houston Press praises, "If there's a choir in heaven, someday the exquisite vocalist Karrin Allyson will lead it. She's such an otherworldly talent that the creator probably already has her on heavy rotation.

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