Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts at Murrys

During the course of the last quarter century, the Jazz Series has been pleased to think of numerous artists as our friends. Drummer Matt Wilson, who now famously said, Columbia has more jazz per capita than any other city in the country, certainly falls into that category. During his previous visit two seasons ago, he unveiled his Honey & Salt project, a reflective work centered on Carl Sandburg poetry that also included bassist Martin Wind. The time before that, he spent the holidays with us, leading his interpretive TreeO endeavor; there was also his two horn quartet that morphed into a quintet by pianist John Medeski...

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During the course of the last quarter century, the Jazz Series has been pleased to think of numerous artists as our friends. Drummer Matt Wilson, who now famously said, Columbia has more jazz per capita than any other city in the country, certainly falls into that category. During his previous visit two seasons ago, he unveiled his Honey & Salt project, a reflective work centered on Carl Sandburg poetry that also included bassist Martin Wind. The time before that, he spent the holidays with us, leading his interpretive TreeO endeavor; there was also his two horn quartet that morphed into a quintet by pianist John Medeski. And then there is Arts & Crafts, his tremendously playful quartet that not only includes Wind, but yet another Jazz Series friend, trumpeter Terell Stafford, whose visits here have seen him in a leadership role, placed him with Bobby Watson as well as with the Clayton Brothers. Joining the three is pianist Dawn Clement, who makes her second Jazz Series appearance.

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