DC Jazz Festival: Wayne Shorter Tribute @ The Hamiliton

DC Jazz Festival:
Wayne Shorter Tribute

June 5th  as apart of the DC Jazz Festival we open for the Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band at the The Hamilton in DC at 7:30 pm.
With special guests J.S. Williams and Jabari Exum, we explore a selection of some of Shorter’s more free form compositions from various stages of his career, including his work with the groundbreaking Miles Davis quintet, as well as his later recordings as a leader for Blue Note records.

Address:600 14th St, Washington, DC 20005
Phone:(202) 787-1000
Click the link to get tickets: https://www.eventfarm.com/tokens/event/7fff5387-0000-4513-af80-821dd0999894

About Wayne Shorter:

An American jazz saxophonist and composer.  His output has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and various commendations, including multiple Grammy Awards.^[2] He has also received acclaim for his mastery of the soprano saxophone (after switching his focus from the tenor in the late 1960s), beginning an extended reign in 1970 as Down Beat‘s annual poll-winner on that instrument, winning the critics’ poll for 10 consecutive years and the readers’ for eighteen.^[3]  Shorter first came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey‘s Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis‘sSecond Great Quintet, and from there he co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader.
(from Wikipedia) Visit http://www.wayneshorter.com/

About Roy Haynes

Roy Haynes was born in Boston, March 13, 1925, and was keenly interested in jazz ever since he can remember. Primarily self-taught, he began to work locally in 1942 with musicians like the Charlie Christian inflected guitarist Tom Brown, bandleader Sabby Lewis, and Kansas City blues-shout alto saxophonist Pete Brown, before getting a call in the summer of 1945 to join legendary bandleader Luis Russell (responsible for much of Louis Armstrong’s musical backing from 1929 to 1933) to play for the dancers at New York’s legendary Savoy Ballroom. When not traveling with Russell, the young drummer spent much time on Manhattan’s 52nd Street and uptown in Minton’s, the legendary incubator of bebop, soaking up the scene.

Profile on Drummersworld : http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Roy_Haynes.html