Jaslyn Hall Presents DAVID MURRAY BLACK SAINT QUARTET. The Sacred Ground Tour revives the music of Murray’s original Black Saint Quartet, a legendary musical collaboration going back some twenty years with an innovative new approach that visits some of the classic numbers as well as featuring many new compositions.
This is jazz built upon its traditional roots, but also music that is challenging, politically charged, remarkably open and breathtakingly polyrhythmic. The most widely recorded saxophonist of his generation, David Murray’s brawny tenor has been heard in a dizzying array of configurations: solo recitals, piano less trios, duets with pianists and drummers; with the World Saxophone Quartet and his own quintets, sextets and octets; fronting big bands and orchestras with string sections and AfroCuban percussion ensembles; in the company of poets, singers and dancers and guitarists from James Blood Ulmer to Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead; and more recently with the Gwo-ka Masters of Guadeloupe.
These days the veteran avant gardist has settled into that most traditional of all saxophonic settings, the quartet with piano, bass and drum accompaniment that has long been the forum of choice for tenorists from Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster to Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane. (Russ Musto, All About Jazz) David Murray – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet Lafayette Gilchrist – piano Malik Washington – drums Jaribu Shahid – double bass
“David Murray is far and away the greatest tenor saxophonist of his generation” (Tom Hull, Village Voice)
David Murray Black Saint Quartet appearing at The Basement on Thursday October 30 & Monday November 3, Brisbane Powerhouse on November 2 and at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival.
