Featuring John Ellis on sax, Boris Kozlov on bass, and Terreon Gully on drums, expect their music to, as Monk urged, “lift the bandstand!”
Date/Time: May 5 2017, 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Vancouver, Frankie's Jazz Club | Event calendarCost: $25
For Thelonious Monk’s centennial year, it is unsurprising that pianist/composer Helen Sung has a lot to say, and play. JazzTimes wrote, “Monk may very well be her patron saint,” and the legendary icon has indeed played a central role in her inspiring journey from classical to jazz: Sung graduated from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance and was a semifinalist in the 1999 Monk Jazz Piano competition. She also wrote the theme song for North Coast Brewing’s Belgian ale “Brother Thelonious” (featured on her acclaimed Anthem For A New Day). Having honed her distinctive style with ensembles ranging from the Mingus Big Band to T.S.Monk's Sextet to Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project, Sung now leads a quartet comprised of some of this generation’s finest artists.
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