Matt Wilson’s "Arts & Crafts"Featuring Terell Stafford (tpt) • Martin Wind (b) • Dawn Clement (p) 
Photo Credit John Abbott Can you say “Old Home Week”? During the course of the last quarter-century, the “We Always Swing”® 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 season’s ago, he unveiled his “Honey & Salt” project – a reflective work centered on Carl Sandburg poetry and prose that also included bassist Martin Wind. The time before that, he spent the holidays with us, leading his interpretive “Tree-O” 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, not to mention a 2009 appearance as a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Joining her three comrades is pianist Dawn Clement, who makes her second Jazz Series appearance, having been here previously in support of René Marie. Audio and Video |
Sunday, Apr. 19, 2020"Sundays @ Murry's"
 Murry's Show 1 | Doors: 2:30 | Start: 3:30 Show 2 | Doors: 6 | Start: 7 Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts
Matt Wilson: Drums “There are a few more emphatically dazzling drummers working today, but almost nobody in Wilson’s peer group with a broader sense of jazz history, or a more natural sense of time, or a stronger signature as a bandleader, or more goodwill among his fellow players.” - Nate Chinen, JazzTimes “One of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player.” - McCoy Tyner on Terell Stafford |
