SEP 29-OCT 2 | JHL DRUMS OUT FRONT
Oct 01 - Oct 02, 2022
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
Among the most influential drummers in jazz, Ari Hoenig has built a career as a singular musician who has re-defined the concept of melodic playing on the drum set. He returns with an exciting new trio featuring guitar great Gilad Hekselman and former SFJAZZ Collective bassist Matt Penman.
The Philadelphia-born Hoenig made an early statement of purpose as a member of the prestigious One O’Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas, and moved to New York within a year, working with iconoclastic French pianist Jean-Michel Pilc’s take-no-prisoners trio and a host of jazz greats including Kenny Werner, Chris Potter, Shirley Scott, Wayne Krantz, Richard Bona, and Mike Stern. A gifted composer beyond his preternatural abilities as a percussionist, Hoenig has issued a string of fine albums for the Smalls, Dreyfus, and Fresh Sound labels beginning with 2000’s solo drum session Time Travels.
Hoenig’s newest Fresh Sound album, Conner’s Days, was inspired by his experiences during the November 2017 West Coast tour with bassist Or Bareket and pianist Nitai Hershkovitz that brought him to SFJAZZ for the first time. With this fresh new string-based trio, Hoenig will be writing a new chapter in his continually evolving journey.
Hoenig’s newest album, Conner’s Days, was inspired by his experiences during the November 2017 West Coast tour with bassist Or Bareket and pianist Nitai Hershkovitz that brought him to SFJAZZ for the first time.
Hoenig attacks his kit like a child does pots and pans, with limbs flailing, face contorted in delight. From his physical mayhem comes music of unsurpassed depth and control.
Philadelphia Weekly
Hoenig attacks his kit like a child does pots and pans, with limbs flailing, face contorted in delight. From his physical mayhem comes music of unsurpassed depth and control.
Philadelphia Weekly
Personnel
Ari Hoenig drums
Gilad Hekselman guitar
Matt Penman bass
At regular intervals he changes the rhythm, pouring it out or stoppering it, turning its emphasis around, subdividing or refocusing it and making it follow the melody
The New York Times
Personnel
Ari Hoenig drums
Gilad Hekselman guitar
Matt Penman bass
At regular intervals he changes the rhythm, pouring it out or stoppering it, turning its emphasis around, subdividing or refocusing it and making it follow the melody
The New York Times
Watch & Listen
Ari Hoenig
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Ari Hoenig
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Ari Hoenig
Pent Up House
Ari Hoenig
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SEP 29-OCT 2 | JHL DRUMS OUT FRONT
SEP 29-30