Cabarrus Arts Council

This award-winning jazz quintet specializes in performing music from the time-honored bebop and hardbop eras of jazz, bringing new life to some of the best-known classics from the Great American Songbook as well as introducing their original music.  Tributes to John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra infuse the evening with rich performances.  The group’s diversity of styles, the very apparent personal and professional love they have for each other, the utter lack of phoning in even a single note is such a gift to an audience.  There’s a twinkle in every eye on stage, a trace of someone’s mischievous grin that keeps us all anticipating what comes next.  The music is far larger than ‘quintet’ denotes.  There’s orchestra there.  There’s symphony there.  There’s phenomenal musicality.  It’s five-point virtuosity with every tune.