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Immanuel Wilkins Quartet at Groton Hill Music Center
Courtesy of Groton Hill Music Center | Posted on November 29, 2022
When
Sat, February 4, 2023
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Immanuel Wilkins
saxophone, altoAbout
“His sound is most often silky and lush… with a gorgeous tone and phrasing… but he can shift into a grittier gospel gear or an airier whisper as the art requires.” — PopMatters.com
“… contemporary jazz at its most thrilling.”— MOJO
The music of alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins is filled with empathy and conviction, bonding arcs of melody and lamentation to pluming gestures of space and breath. PopMatters.com says his “impulse is to bring 21st-century creative music forward and reclaim the beating heart of its past without sounding retrospective.” Listeners were introduced to this riveting sound with his acclaimed debut album Omega, which was named the #1 Jazz Album of 2020 by The New York Times. The album also introduced his remarkable quartet, which “is willing to push him and follow him, galloping into the musical adventure.”...