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Pocketwatch And The Equanimous Jones Quartet at Bar Fedora
Courtesy of Susan Gordon | Posted on September 25, 2017
Where
Bar Fedora
710 W 1st St,
Los Angeles, CA
Map
213-617-2533
When
Sat, September 30, 2017
7:30 pm
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An evening of Contemporary Jazz and Classical music from PocketWatch led by pianist Gerry Bryant followed by The Equanimous Jones Quartet led by saxophonist Tommy Myers at Downtown Los Angeles’ Au Lac Restaurant-Bar Fedora.
Bryant, Harvard trained, describes his music as “Third Stream”, a term coined in 1957 by world renowned composer/conductor Gunther Schuller to describe a musical genre that is a synthesis of classical music and jazz. Bryant has had extensive classical training since childhood and notes that his musical influences range from classical masters Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, to jazz legends Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington, to contemporary pianists Keith Jarrett and Ramsey Lewis. ...