Joe Locke Subtle Disguise at South Florida JAZZ Studio

Joe Locke is a six-time recipient of the Jazz Journalists Association’s “Mallet Instrumentalist of the Year” award and has won numerous further accolades and polls. In 2016 he was honored with induction into the Music Hall of Fame in his hometown, Rochester, New York. He remains an active clinician and educator both in the United States and in Europe, and holds the prestigious title of Honorary Associate of London’s Royal Academy of Music.

Locke asserts that Subtle Disguise, both the new band and the eponymously named record, represents “the total expression of who I am as a musician and human being.” Notably, it was distinguished by Jazziz magazine as “a crowning achievement from a certified vibraphone master.” This pronounces a happy continuation of his perpetual search to unite his love and gift of composition with the connective qualities of melody and, of course, groove, of which he is an absolute master. ...

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Joe Locke is a six-time recipient of the Jazz Journalists Association’s “Mallet Instrumentalist of the Year” award and has won numerous further accolades and polls. In 2016 he was honored with induction into the Music Hall of Fame in his hometown, Rochester, New York. He remains an active clinician and educator both in the United States and in Europe, and holds the prestigious title of Honorary Associate of London’s Royal Academy of Music.

Locke asserts that Subtle Disguise, both the new band and the eponymously named record, represents “the total expression of who I am as a musician and human being.” Notably, it was distinguished by Jazziz magazine as “a crowning achievement from a certified vibraphone master.” This pronounces a happy continuation of his perpetual search to unite his love and gift of composition with the connective qualities of melody and, of course, groove, of which he is an absolute master.

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