GEORGE COLLIGAN TRIO w/Buster Williams & Lenny White

When:
Thursday, Sep 06, 2018 8:00p -
9:15p

Where:
Sculler's Jazz Club
400 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, Massachusetts 02134

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Admission:
$30 AND $80 per dinner and show package

Categories:
Music, Nightlife

Event website:
https://scullersjazz.com/

“As a creative artist, he’s really up there…. In terms of technique, knowledge of music and improvisational creativity, there aren’t a whole lot of cats from his generation that are any better than him. As a matter of fact, I can’t think of any.”– Don Braden in a blindfold test for Jazz Times
George Colligan is a New York based pianist, organist,drummer, trumpeter, teacher, and bandleader, who is one of the most original and compelling jazz artists of his generation. An award-winning composer (Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation grant recipient) and player (winner, Jazzconnect.com Jazz Competition), Colligan is highly in demand as a sideman, having worked with players like Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, Buster Williams, and Lonnie Plaxico, both on the bandstand and in recording sessions Colligan’s musical style incorporates everything from showtunes to funk, from free improvisation to 20th century classical music. His performances include dazzling technique as well as mature restraint. Colligan is currently an Assistant Professor at Portland State University and is a member of drummer Jack DeJohnette’s group.
Colligan has toured, recorded ,and/or performed as a sideman with Cassandra Wilson, Buster Williams, Don Byron, Gary Bartz, Benny Golson, Miguel Zenon, Tom Harrell, Steve Coleman, Eddie Henderson, Ralph Peterson, Steve Wilson, Dave Weckl, Richard Bona, Jane Monheit, Ravi Coltrane, Lenny White, Michael Brecker, Nicholas Payton, Sheila Jordan, Janis Siegel, Christian McBride, Billy Hart, Charles Fambrough, Mingus Big Band, AL Foster, Don Braden, Lew Soloff, Gunther Schuller, Carl Allen, Lee Konitz, DJ Logic, Randy Brecker and Stefon Harris, among others.

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