Monty Alexander Trio Embark on First West Coast Run In A Year

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."
Moss Theater - January 14 - 8PM
New Roads School at The Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA
90404
Phone: (800) 838-3006 ext. 1
Tickets, click here.
Yoshi's - January 16 - 8PM
510 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: 510-238-9200
Tickets, click here.
Monty Alexander TRIO:
Monty Alexander - piano
JJ Shakur - bass
Jason Brown - drums
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E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
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Fool for Love Santa Monica Playhouse (7/23-7/26) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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NIC & DESI: SONG, DANCE & ROMANCE Coachella Valley Repertory (7/21-7/21) |
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John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour Wilshire Ebell Theatre (9/18-9/18) |
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DAVIS GAINES: LIVE AT CVREP Coachella Valley Repertory (7/30-7/30) |
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Sutton Foster featuring Pacific Jazz Orchestra Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (9/19-9/19) |
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A Faery Hunt and Their Animal Friends Kindred Spirits Care Farm (12/06-12/06) |
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SomeTHING Magical James Armstrong Theatre (5/22-5/22) |
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North by Northwest The Old Globe (7/03-8/02) |









