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Joel Ross at South Jazz Club

Courtesy of Wendy Wolf | Posted on January 9, 2020

Where

South Jazz Club
600 North Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA
Map
(215) 600-0220

Joel Ross at South Jazz Club

When

Sat, February 8, 2020
9:30 pm

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Musicians

Joel Ross
vibraphone

About

“I never had a doubt that I was going to do music,” says Joel Ross, the most thrilling new vibraphonist in America. “My whole life it was just about finding a way to do it.” In the past few years, keeping up with all of those ways has, for aficionados, turned into a virtuosic practice unto itself. The Chicago-born, Brook-lyn-based player and composer has a way of being everywhere interesting at once: from deeply innova-tive albums (Makaya McCraven’s Universal Beings, Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens’ In Common) to re-liably revolutionary combos (Marquis Hill’s Blacktet, Peter Evans’ Being & Becoming) to the buzzing debut of Blue Note’s 2018 breakout star James Francies (Flight). Even with his own bands—which include quartets and a large ensemble dedicated to the works of and in-the-style-of Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett’s...

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