-THE LEGENDARY JAMAICAN PIANO MASTER-
Monty Alexander
Catalina Jazz Club to the Blue Note NYC!
2018 Summer Tour
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Photo credit: Joe Martinez/Jazz at Lincoln Center
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Monty Alexander – piano
JJ Shakur – bass
James Johnson III – drums
June 16: Grand Rapids, MI at the Saint Cecilia Music Center
June 21: Phoenix, AZ at the Musical Instrument Museum
For information on the event and to purchase tickets, click here.
June 22-23
Catalina Jazz Club
6725 West Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
323-466-2210
June 22 and 23: Los Angeles at Catalina Jazz Club
To purchase tickets for Friday night’s show, click here.
To purchase tickets for Saturday night’s show, click here.
June 24-26
Monty Alexander
Love Notes: Jamaica to Jazz
Blue Note – New York
131 West 3rd St.
New York, NY 10012
212-475-8592
Sunday, June 24
To purchase tickets to 8:00pm show, click here.
To purchase tickets to 10:30pm show, click here.
Monday, June 25
To purchase tickets to 10:30pm show, click here.
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Frank Sinatra wrote ‘The Kid is a Gas’ in the liner notes of Monty’s first album Alexander the Great (1965). “It was also in 1965 that Miles Davis came into Mr. Sinatra’s favorite New York City night spot, Jilly’s, where I was playing. After I ended the set, he came over and asked me, ‘Where did you learn to play that s**t?!’ Then he handed me his phone number and said, ‘Come on by my house’, which I did, on many occasions! A happy and meaningful memory! He continued to visit Jilly’s, sitting at the piano bar with friends when I was playing there. He did so on several occasions. I guess he must’ve liked what he was hearing.”
– Monty Alexander
In 2001, Monty received the highly-respected Commander of Distinction award from the Government of Jamaica. As jazz royalty, he continues to travel the globe, performing to appreciative, enthusiastic audiences everywhere!
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In a career spanning five decades, pianist Monty Alexander has built a reputation exploring the worlds of American jazz, popular song, and the music of his native Jamaica, finding in each a sincere spirit of musical expression.
Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander has been thrilling audiences for five decades, including thirteen years of headline performances at the Montreux International Jazz Festival. Fifty-five years after he moved to the United States from Kingston, Jamaica, his home town, pianist Monty Alexander is an American classic, touring the world relentlessly with various projects, delighting a global audience drawn to his vibrant personality and soulful message. His spirited conception is one informed by the timeless verities: endless melody-making, effervescent grooves, sophisticated voiceings, a romantic spirit, and a consistent predisposition, as Alexander accurately states, “to build up the heat and kick up a storm.” In the course of any given performance, Alexander applies those aesthetics to repertoire spanning a broad range of jazz and Jamaican musical expression-the American songbook and the blues, gospel and bebop, calypso and reggae.
Like his “eternal inspiration,” Erroll Garner, Alexander-cited as the fifth greatest jazz pianist ever in The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time (Hal Leonard Publishing) and mentioned in Robert Doerschuk’s 88: The Giants of Jazz Piano-gives the hardcore-jazz-obsessed much to dig into while also communicating the message to the squarest “civilian.”
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