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Matthew Whitaker Quartet at South Beach Jazz Festival at North Beach Bandshell, Miami Beach.

Courtesy of Amanda MacMaster | Posted on December 23, 2020

Where

Matthew Whitaker Quartet at South Beach Jazz Festival at North Beach Bandshell, Miami Beach.

When

Fri, January 8, 2021
8:00 pm

Musicians

Matthew Whitaker
organ, Hammond B3

About

The South Beach Jazz Festival kicks off with Sobe at Nobe featuring Matthew Whitaker, an 18-year-old, blind American jazz pianist with an impressive resume and incredible talent. This multi-award-winning, internationally recognized, young jazz phenomenon has played world-renowned stages including Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, Cargenie Hall, and New Orleans Jazz Festival… just to name a few. You may have seen him featured on 60 Minutes earlier this year.
The two-time ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award winner will take the stage with his quartet on Friday, January 8 at 8 pm. Matthew Whitaker's sound is filled with refined dynamics, a light and artful touch, accompanied by bright strings and rhythm. His approach to each instrument is thoughtful and distinctive- melodic and improvisational on piano, complex textured and harmonically dense on the organ. With a personal touch, supported by highly skilled colleagues, Matthew, whose enthusiasm is incessant, is the center of this quartet, smooth, graceful, and full of energy. Matthew and his band will have any audience on their feet swaying and shouting with delight....

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