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Alan Lewine Xtet at Heard Museum
Courtesy of Alan Lewine | Posted on March 29, 2022
When
Fri, April 1, 2022
4:00 pm
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Musicians
Alan Lewine Xtet
band / ensemble / orchestraAlan Lewine
bassMalik Alkabir
multi-instrumentalistGlendon Gross
trumpetJohn Rumbaugh
drumsFrank Valdes
percussionFrank Smith
saxophoneGarrett Jones
bassAna María Ruimonte
vocalsAbout
Alan Lewine’s AZXtet [sometimes THE ALAN LEWINE XTET] presents some of the finest players in Arizona playing an exciting mix of hard-hitting jazz drawing on the entire history of the genre, with an emphasis on the 3 Big Ms: Mingus, Monk and Morton (Jelly Roll) – M cubed – M3 – with a heavy emphasis on the sound of the Mingus ensembles of the
early-mid-sixties in this his centennial year. The Xtet performs many original compositions and covers of jazz and songbook classics with an original take or arrangement. The Xtet draws on the classic jazz sound of the 60s, with reference to the tradition of simultaneous improvisation that characterized the early days of the music and the African roots that helped to spawn it...