Ralph Peterson Trio Featuring The Curtis Brothers at Dizzy's Club

Powerhouse drum veteran Ralph Peterson was the last drummer selected for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and he has since led a consistently excellent career and worked with dozens of top jazz musicians from the 1980s through today. Tonight’s performance is an album release party for Tri-Angular 3 (released on Peterson’s own Onyx Productions label), an anticipated follow-up to 2000’s acclaimed Tri-Angular 2. As with his previous Tri-Angular projects, tonight’s group is a brand new trio formation that features Luques and Zaccai Curtis–two Jazz at Lincoln Center favorites known together as the Curtis Brothers...

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Powerhouse drum veteran Ralph Peterson was the last drummer selected for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and he has since led a consistently excellent career and worked with dozens of top jazz musicians from the 1980s through today. Tonight’s performance is an album release party for Tri-Angular 3 (released on Peterson’s own Onyx Productions label), an anticipated follow-up to 2000’s acclaimed Tri-Angular 2. As with his previous Tri-Angular projects, tonight’s group is a brand new trio formation that features Luques and Zaccai Curtis–two Jazz at Lincoln Center favorites known together as the Curtis Brothers. The pair has made a mark in jazz and Latin music by exploring the blues harmonies and swing rhythms of the Africa-Caribbean-New Orleans lineage that, as a cultural and musical melting pot, make for a distinct and irresistible fusion. It’s an exciting new collaboration, and this is the first chance to hear their new music

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