Thursday Night Jazz: Mila Shadel Takes On Pop at City Of Asylum @ Alphabet City

One of Pittsburgh’s best emerging jazz musicians and lifelong guitarist, Mila Shadel, takes to the Alphabet City stage with one mission: to honor her myriad influences and merge the worlds of jazz and pop. In the form’s many years of life, jazz has never been a stranger to play. It is a genre itching to be riffed on, blurring lines and bending rules. With influences including jazz guitarists like George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, Pat Metheny, and Emily Remler, Mila Shadel and her accompanying musicians use this performance to reimagine some of Mila’s favorite pop songs in a jazz quartet setting...

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One of Pittsburgh’s best emerging jazz musicians and lifelong guitarist, Mila Shadel, takes to the Alphabet City stage with one mission: to honor her myriad influences and merge the worlds of jazz and pop. In the form’s many years of life, jazz has never been a stranger to play. It is a genre itching to be riffed on, blurring lines and bending rules. With influences including jazz guitarists like George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, Pat Metheny, and Emily Remler, Mila Shadel and her accompanying musicians use this performance to reimagine some of Mila’s favorite pop songs in a jazz quartet setting.

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