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Joel Ross at South Jazz Club
Courtesy of Wendy Wolf | Posted on January 9, 2020
When
Fri, February 7, 2020
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Joel Ross
vibraphoneAbout
“I never had a doubt that I was going to do music,” says Joel Ross, the most thrilling new vibraphonist in America. “My whole life it was just about finding a way to do it.” In the past few years, keeping up with all of those ways has, for aficionados, turned into a virtuosic practice unto itself. The Chicago-born, Brook-lyn-based player and composer has a way of being everywhere interesting at once: from deeply innova-tive albums (Makaya McCraven’s Universal Beings, Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens’ In Common) to re-liably revolutionary combos (Marquis Hill’s Blacktet, Peter Evans’ Being & Becoming) to the buzzing debut of Blue Note’s 2018 breakout star James Francies (Flight). Even with his own bands—which include quartets and a large ensemble dedicated to the works of and in-the-style-of Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett’s...