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Kenny Barron & Mulgrew Miller at SFJAZZ Spring Festival at Herbst Theater
Courtesy of Marshall Lamm | Posted on March 27, 2012
Where
Herbst Theater
SFJAZZ Spring Festival
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA
Map
415.621.6600
When
Sat, May 26, 2012
8:00pm
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Musicians
Kenny Barron
pianoAbout
The piano duo is one of the great pleasures in jazz, a format that allows colleagues to collaborate with 20 fingers flying. Keyboard savants Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller have enjoyed several prior encounters, inspiring each other’s dazzling improvisations. The Philadelphia-born Barron, 68, and Memphis-raised Miller, 56, share the same aesthetic outlook, putting a premium on elegance, beauty and crisp articulation, and each is a brilliant composer. Barron, an NEA Jazz Master, has helped define and extend the jazz tradition since his work with Dizzy Gillespie in the early ‘60s catapulted him into the spotlight...