Steven Kirby "illuminations" Jazz Project at The Black Box

Steven Kirby’s “Illuminations” Project: has been described as “richly textured, multi-layered, exhilarating and lyrical jazz”. It features  original compositions and arrangements, as well as some creative arrangements of standard tunes,  using a quintet of instrumentalists and a singer performing both wordless and lyrical vocals.
An award winning  guitarist/composer and Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Kirby’s music is most often categorized as contemporary jazz but it is influenced by a variety of genres.
“Illuminations” was recently an Editor’s Pick in the prestigious jazz publication Downbeat:...

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Steven Kirby’s “Illuminations” Project: has been described as “richly textured, multi-layered, exhilarating and lyrical jazz”. It features  original compositions and arrangements, as well as some creative arrangements of standard tunes,  using a quintet of instrumentalists and a singer performing both wordless and lyrical vocals.
An award winning  guitarist/composer and Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Kirby’s music is most often categorized as contemporary jazz but it is influenced by a variety of genres.
“Illuminations” was recently an Editor’s Pick in the prestigious jazz publication Downbeat:
“Steven Kirby, a guitarist of rippling technique and a poetic mind, has developed a modern jazz guitar style that bridges the angular lyricism of Pat Metheny and the painterly asceticism of Jim Hall”.

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