Quentin Baxter presents… Monty Alexander

Date: Sunday, March 10, 2019

Location: Turtle Point Clubhouse

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Price: $25 or $60 for series

Ticket Release: 11/23

Tickets available here beginning 11/23

The third concert of the series features the Legendary Jazz Pianist Monty Alexander.

Accompanying Alexander for the concert will be longtime bassist Hassan Shakur and drummer Quentin E. Baxter.

In a career spanning north of five decades, pianist Monty Alexander has built a reputation exploring and bridging the worlds of American jazz, popular song, and the music of his native Jamaica, finding each a sincere spirit of musical expression. In the process, he has performed and recorded with artists from every corner of the musical universe and entertainment world: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Ernest Ranglin, Barbara Hendricks, Bobby McFerrin, Sly Dunbar, and Robbie Shakespeare, among others.

A true jazz legend, Monty Alexander still tours 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 [piano] voicings, 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.”