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Laurence Hobgood/ Ernie Watts Quintet at Kentucky Country Day Theater
Courtesy of Larry Cooper | Posted on October 3, 2013
Where
Kentucky Country Day Theater
4100 Springdale Road
Louisville, KY
Map
502.423.0440
When
Tue, October 8, 2013
7:30 am
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Musicians
About
Grammy Award winner Hobgood has been the pianist and arranger for singer Kurt Elling for 20 years. All About Jazz calls him "one of the finest pianists out there. Period." He's joined by sax virtuoso Watts, another Grammy winner who has played on everything from the soundtracks to Chariots of Fire and Ghostbusters to cds by Frank Zappa and Steely Dan to Charlie Haden's Quartet West, and has done a number of gigs and CDs with Hobgood and Elling over the past decade. Opening act Liberation Prophecy, led by reed man Jacob Duncan and singer Carly Johnson and featuring some of the best jazz musicians in the region, has recently released a debut CD and toured the East Coast including a show at the Blue Note. ...