Branford Marsalis Quartet at The Appel Room

What To ExpectOne of jazz’s most renowned and longest-running bands playing music like no one elseSelections from the quartet’s brand-new album, featuring new originals by Marsalis and his bandmatesThe multi-Grammy Award–winning Branford Marsalis Quartet is a standard-bearer of modern instrumental jazz. In a concert season loaded with big ideas and premier collaborations, the story of tonight’s show is simply one of jazz’s longest-running bands playing extraordinary music like no one else.The group will play music from the brand-new record, The Secrets Between the Shadow and the Soul, featuring new originals by Marsalis and members of the band, as well as a couple of upbeat selections by Keith Jarrett and Andrew Hill...

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What To ExpectOne of jazz’s most renowned and longest-running bands playing music like no one elseSelections from the quartet’s brand-new album, featuring new originals by Marsalis and his bandmatesThe multi-Grammy Award–winning Branford Marsalis Quartet is a standard-bearer of modern instrumental jazz. In a concert season loaded with big ideas and premier collaborations, the story of tonight’s show is simply one of jazz’s longest-running bands playing extraordinary music like no one else.The group will play music from the brand-new record, The Secrets Between the Shadow and the Soul, featuring new originals by Marsalis and members of the band, as well as a couple of upbeat selections by Keith Jarrett and Andrew Hill. Ask Marsalis what the album title means, and he’ll tell you, “There is no further explanation—it’s just a nice sound.”We don’t need to know anything more to be excited for the return of the ever-evolving, always-superb Branford Marsalis Quartet.As a bonus, the show will start with an opening set by Citizens of the Blues, a quartet featuring some of the finest young musicians on the scene: Anthony Hervey, Isaiah J. Thompson, Philip Norris, and Domo Branch.

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