Branford Marsalis Quartet With Special Guest Kurt Elling at Scottsdale Center for the Arts

7:30 pm; Tickets: $39, $49, $69. The Branford Marsalis Quartet will be joined by Grammy Award-winning guest-vocalist Kurt Elling in a singular collaboration of musical forces. The tight-knit working band, featuring Marsalis on saxophones, Joey Calderazzo on piano, Eric Revis on bass and Justin Faulkner on drums, rarely invites other musicians into the folds of their nearly telepathically cohesive unit. Elling’s deep jazz vocabulary, technical versatility and outstanding intonation will enable the band to perform a variety of material in new ways. Energized by the artistic promise of this collaboration and looking beyond the Great American Songbook, the band members have all contributed new arrangements to perform with this special lineup. Although following the format of a standard jazz quartet with vocals, the collaboration between jazz’s most intense band and one of jazz’s foremost singers will prove to be anything but standard. Signature Sponsor: Merrill Lynch...

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7:30 pm; Tickets: $39, $49, $69. The Branford Marsalis Quartet will be joined by Grammy Award-winning guest-vocalist Kurt Elling in a singular collaboration of musical forces. The tight-knit working band, featuring Marsalis on saxophones, Joey Calderazzo on piano, Eric Revis on bass and Justin Faulkner on drums, rarely invites other musicians into the folds of their nearly telepathically cohesive unit. Elling’s deep jazz vocabulary, technical versatility and outstanding intonation will enable the band to perform a variety of material in new ways. Energized by the artistic promise of this collaboration and looking beyond the Great American Songbook, the band members have all contributed new arrangements to perform with this special lineup. Although following the format of a standard jazz quartet with vocals, the collaboration between jazz’s most intense band and one of jazz’s foremost singers will prove to be anything but standard. Signature Sponsor: Merrill Lynch

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