Snap On 2&4 W/ Evan Cobb at Nashville Jazz Workshop

On Friday, January 27 at 8pm, NJW welcomes back to the Jazz Cave saxophonist Evan Cobb!

"Cobbs fluency on the horn neatly disguises the complexities of his improvisations complexities that gird but remain subservient to his overriding concern with propulsive melody. - Neil Tesser, The Examiner

"As a tenor saxophonist, Cobb goes back to [Dexter] Gordon and [John] Coltrane, forward into the present but never abandoning the basic principles of melodic, swinging improvisation. His quintet always sounds larger than its numbers: Cobb has a bright future as a player, arranger, and composer." - Cadence Magazine...

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On Friday, January 27 at 8pm, NJW welcomes back to the Jazz Cave saxophonist Evan Cobb!

"Cobbs fluency on the horn neatly disguises the complexities of his improvisations complexities that gird but remain subservient to his overriding concern with propulsive melody. - Neil Tesser, The Examiner

"As a tenor saxophonist, Cobb goes back to [Dexter] Gordon and [John] Coltrane, forward into the present but never abandoning the basic principles of melodic, swinging improvisation. His quintet always sounds larger than its numbers: Cobb has a bright future as a player, arranger, and composer." - Cadence Magazine

Since making Nashville his home in the fall of 2008 (by way of New York and Chicago), Evan Cobb has become one of Nashville's most in-demand woodwind players. Cobb has performed with myriad ensembles including the Nashville Symphony, the Nashville Jazz Orchestra, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, JD Souther, Cage the Elephant, and Aretha Franklin. Also an active educator, Cobb is the director of our own Nashville Jazz Workshop Summer Camp and NJW Scholarship Program, and keeps a large studio of private students on the saxophone, oboe, flute, and clarinet. He is also the host of our popular NJW monthly jam sessions.

Evan has just released "Hot Chicken" on Ear Up Records, his second CD as a leader.

Joining Cobb on the date are trumpeter Matt White, pianist Bruce Dudley, bassist Jonathan Wires, and drummer Josh Hunt, a can't miss "modern-day jazz quintet."

There will be two sets beginning at 8:00 pm in the Jazz Cave at the Workshop. Admission is $25 / $15 high school and college students with ID. Tickets will go on sale Monday January 16 at 10AM and will be available online on this page, by phone 24/7 at Brown Paper Tickets (800-838-3006) or during business hours at the NJW office (242-5299). A small convenience charge is added to online or 800-number purchases.

Doors open at 7:15 pm.

Policies: The Jazz Cave is a BYOB establishment, with no alcohol or food service. You are free to bring alcoholic beverages and snacks. We sell soft drinks and bottled water. The Jazz Cave is a listening room, and we ask patrons to keep conversation to a minimum and silence cell phones. Audio and video recording is prohibited. Ticket sales are final.

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