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Scott Sawyer Group at The Station
Courtesy of Robbie Link | Posted on November 17, 2016
Where
The Station
201 East Main St.
Carrboro, NC
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When
Sat, December 3, 2016
2:00 pm
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Part of the Jazz Saturdays @ The Station series.
SCOTT SAWYER displays his musical diversity like a badge of honor. He continues to explore the jazz tradition & beyond, but labeling Sawyer as “just jazz” is like appreciating only one color from the palette of a master painter. The deep blues shade every note Sawyer plays. He bends the strings, hesitates, surges and slurs, dipping the music into the dirty water of some mythical Delta.
Born in Chicago, Sawyer eventually settled in North Carolina and since 1984 has been a major contributer to the NC Jazz scene. He hosted and performed regularly at the legendary weekly Pyewacket Jazz Series in Chapel Hill from 1984- 1996 and has collaborated for years with many of North Carolina's prominent jazz musicians, including Nnenna Freelon, Jon Metzger, Ron Brendle, Ed Paolantonio, and the late Brother Yusuf Salim....