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Joel Ross at Virginia Arts Festival at Perry Pavilion

Courtesy of Mark Robbins | Posted on February 23, 2022

Where

Perry Pavilion
Virginia Arts Festival

440 Bank St
Norfolk, VA
Map

When

Tue, May 10, 2022
7:30 pm

At Door

$25.00

Musicians

Joel Ross
vibraphone

About

For the past several years, Joel Ross has been refining an expression that’s true to his sound and his generation. In 2019, the vibraphonist-composer released his anticipated Blue Note debut KingMaker to eruptive critical acclaim. He’s topped the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star category for vibraphone and in 2017, he became one of the youngest artists to receive a coveted Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery. With the release of Who Are You? (Blue Note, 2020), Ross shares the culmination of a year-long exercise in experimenting and risk-taking on and off the bandstand.

Inspired by mentor Stefon Harris’ empathetic, whole-self approach to articulation, Ross has adopted an entire ethos dependent on truthful, ongoing communication...

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Concerts

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