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NY Standards Quartet at Herts Jazz Club
Courtesy of Stephen Hyde | Posted on March 30, 2012
Where
Herts Jazz Club
Campus West
Welwyn Garden City
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When
Fri, April 13, 2012
7.45-10.30pm
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About
The NY Standards Quartet, spearheaded by saxophonist Tim Armacost, came together in 2006. Its members, four New York jazz musicians, have developed a near telepathic relationship playing together in a variety of settings, including in some of the top bands in New York. Conceptually, the NYSQ strives to develop its own language by radically reinterpreting great songs in the tradition of the standard jazz repertoire.
Drummer Gene “Action” Jackson has played with pretty much all jazz royalty in the States but his particular seven years with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Dave Holland marked him out as the go-to rhythm-meister for the cream of jazz....