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New York Standards Quartet at Murrys
Courtesy of Ticketmaster | Posted on August 9, 2018
When
Sun, April 28, 2019
3:30 pm
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Musicians
New York Standards Quartet
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
New York Standards Quartet (NYSQ) concept Is a straightforward one: Take jazz standards and play them inventively in own way. When they formed more than a decade ago, pianist David Berkman said the members realized, After playing a lot of original music, they thought it would be fun and liberating to play music based standard jazz tunes that they had grown up playing, citing two examples: Confirmation and All the Things You Are, The New York Standards Quartet is comprised of four well-schooled musicians: Saxophonist/Flutist Tim Armacost, pianist Berkman, bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Gene Jackson, each one owning a thriving solo career...