Michael Gregory Jackson at Rockwood Music Hall

ALTERNATIVE GUITAR SUMMIT!
Four improvisers Debuting Singer/Songwriter Projects

Michael Gregory Jackson guitar & voice with Keith Witty bass
Doug Wamble guitar with Mino Cinelu percussion
Joel Harrison guitar with Glenn Patscha keyboard
Adam Levy with Sheryl Bailey guitar

“One of the most lyrical musicians working today…singularly personal and arresting and one of contemporary music’s few genuine poets… Jackson’s daring, darting vocal is so serene yet intense that one is hard-put naming a contemporary vocalist of similar grace and power.” –Down Beat...

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ALTERNATIVE GUITAR SUMMIT!
Four improvisers Debuting Singer/Songwriter Projects

Michael Gregory Jackson guitar & voice with Keith Witty bass
Doug Wamble guitar with Mino Cinelu percussion
Joel Harrison guitar with Glenn Patscha keyboard
Adam Levy with Sheryl Bailey guitar

“One of the most lyrical musicians working today…singularly personal and arresting and one of contemporary music’s few genuine poets… Jackson’s daring, darting vocal is so serene yet intense that one is hard-put naming a contemporary vocalist of similar grace and power.” –Down Beat

Michael Gregory Jackson is one of the most influential and innovative guitarists to emerge during NYC’s avant-garde loft scene in the 70s, has embraced everything from avant-garde, creative music, jazz, blues, rock and electronica soundscapes to harmonically rich and lyrically deep vocal tunes. Rolling Stone Magazine called Jackson, “the most original jazz guitarist to emerge since the sixties.”

Keith Witty
 bassist, is a native of New York City, Witty has straddled the worlds of Hip-Hop, popular music forms, and Jazz's Avant-Garde in his young career. In 2000, before graduating from Wesleyan University, he made his recording debut with the Anthony Braxton Quartet. Work soon followed in the bands of drummer/producer Guillermo E. Brown, which spawned the opportunity to fill in for William Parker in the David S. Ware Quartet. In 2007, Keith formally joined Ware's new quartet. That same year, he joined the touring band of Grammy-nominated singer and song-writer Amel Larrieux, with whom he has toured extensively and contributed to her “Lovely Standards” (2008) and “Ice Cream Everyday” (2013) records. In 2010, Keith joined the band of acclaimed East African vocalist Somi, with whom he has played concerts throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, partaking in the album, "Live at the Jazz Standard".
Most recently,

Keith produced and performed on Somi’s major label debut, “Lagos Music Salon”, released in August 2014 on Sony/Okeh Records. Simultaneously, Keith has collaborated with some of the most innovative musicians of Jazz's upcoming generation, playing in bands led by Matana Roberts, Taylor Ho Bynum, Pyeng Threadgill and many others.

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