David Binney

Our fall season keeps rolling in less than two weeks with alto
saxophonist David Binney, who plays the Kate Buchanan Room with his
Third Occasion Quartet on Thursday, October 6. Stereophile calls
Binney "one of the most original minds in contemporary music," and we
agree: he's a powerful player and a distinctive composer, a
tremendously influential figure on the modern jazz scene. Tickets for
the show are $15 General Admission and $10 for students and seniors,
and are currently available online at the "Tickets" page of our
website only. (They'll be on sale at Wildberries, Wildwood Music,
People's Records, and The Works by the middle of next week.)


You can read more about David Binney and stream a set by the Third
Occasion Quartet from last year's Newport Jazz Festival at
RedwoodJazzAlliance.org:
http://www.redwoodjazzalliance.org/binney.html


While we've got your attention, here are two bits of other news:


The Donny McCaslin Group's set from last weekend's Monterey Jazz
Festival is now available for streaming at NPR Jazz:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2011/09/21/140611177/monterey-jazz-2011-donny-mccaslin-group


And we're proud to pass along the word that earlier this week, our
October 2008 guest, drummer Dafnis Prieto, was named a 2011 MacArthur
Fellow (that is, he got a "Genius Grant"). If you're interested, you
can read about it here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2011/09/20/140621262/drummer-and-compser-dafnis-prieto-named-macarthur-fellow
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/09/20/congratulations-to-a-newly-minted-jazz-genius/

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. (And even though we're pretty
sure we had nothing to do with it, we can't help but point out that
Prieto is the second of our guests to win these laurels: saxophonist
Miguel Zenon was a 2009 winner. Great minds think alike, we
suppose...)