Sunday "meet The Artist" Jazz Series - Winard Harper Presents Vincent Herring at Moore's Lounge

Those lucky to spend the evening at Moore’s on Sunday, will have the privilege of listening to a saxophone virtuoso with a uniquely intense and vigorous musical voice, considered one of the premier saxophonists of his generation. During the Q and A, he might tell a story or two of his years of studying, jamming, gigging and recording—with everyone from Nat Adderley, Lionel Hampton and Lainie Kazan to Abdullah Ibrahim and Arthur Taylor, from Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Hayes, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver Quintet, Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, Larry Coryell, Steve Turre, The Mingus Big Band, Kenny Barron, Nancy Wilson, Dr...

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Those lucky to spend the evening at Moore’s on Sunday, will have the privilege of listening to a saxophone virtuoso with a uniquely intense and vigorous musical voice, considered one of the premier saxophonists of his generation. During the Q and A, he might tell a story or two of his years of studying, jamming, gigging and recording—with everyone from Nat Adderley, Lionel Hampton and Lainie Kazan to Abdullah Ibrahim and Arthur Taylor, from Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Hayes, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver Quintet, Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, Larry Coryell, Steve Turre, The Mingus Big Band, Kenny Barron, Nancy Wilson, Dr. Billy Taylor, Carla Bley, and John Hicks, David Murray and McCoy Tyner to Jack DeJohnette and Roy Haynes—to arrive at his own identity on the instrument, while part of his education involves long days and nights playing on the streets of Manhattan in the early ’80s, which for sure will make for interesting storytelling. Vincent Herring has recorded 19 albums as a leader and can be heard on over 200 as a sideman.

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