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Ben Wendel Quartet | Athenaeum Jazz
Apr
24
7:30 PM19:30
Athenaeum Jazz

Ben Wendel Quartet | Athenaeum Jazz

Thursday, April 24, 2025
7:30 PM

*AT THE ATHENAEUM MUSIC & ARTS LIBRARY*
The series concludes on Thursday, April 24, at the Athenaeum with the Ben Wendel Quartet, featuring Wendel on saxophone with an all-star rhythm section of Gerald Clayton on piano, Luca Alemanno on bass, and Jonathan Pinson on drums. Grammy-nominated saxophonist Ben Wendel was born in Vancouver and raised in Los Angeles. Currently living in Brooklyn, he has enjoyed a varied career as a performer, composer, and producer. Highlights include tours, performances, and/or recordings with artists such as Terence Blanchard, Bill Frisell, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tigran Hamasyan, Antonio Sanchez, Eric Harland, Taylor Eigsti, Linda May Han Oh, Moonchild, Louis Cole, Daedelus, Snoop Dogg, and Prince. Wendel is a founding member of the Grammy-nominated group Kneebody. His 2023 record, All One, was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album category. His latest release, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (October 2024), features his longtime colleague, Gerald Clayton.

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Athenaeum Jazz Spring Series
Mar
27
7:30 PM19:30
Athenaeum Jazz Series

Athenaeum Jazz Spring Series

Thursday, March 27, 7:30 PM—Omar Sosa Quarteto Americanos (at Scripps Research)
Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 PM—Bill Frisell Trio (at Scripps Research)
Thursday, April 24, 7:30 PM—Ben Wendel Quartet (at the Athenaeum)
7:30 PM

We are pleased to announce the return of the Athenaeum Jazz series to the Scripps Research Auditorium (10620 John Jay Hopkins Drive, north of Genesee Avenue in Torrey Pines Mesa) for two out of three concerts in our annual spring series. Seating is limited for all three evenings, so early reservations are advised. Please join us for these three special performances featuring internationally acclaimed jazz artists Omar Sosa, Bill Frisell, and Ben Wendel.

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Mark Turner Quartet
Oct
28
7:30 PM19:30
Jazz at Scripps Research

Mark Turner Quartet

Thursday, October 28, 2021
7:30 PM

The series concludes on Thursday, October 28, with the Mark Turner Quartet, featuring Turner on tenor saxophone, Joe Martin on bass, Jason Palmer on trumpet, and Jonathan Pinson on drums. Turner returns to the series having performed on the first set of concerts in 1996 with the TanaReid Quintet, then on subsequent dates with the collective trio Fly (with Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard), with Ethan Iverson, and with Gerald Clayton. In a career that spans more than two decades, Turner has emerged as a towering presence in the jazz community and is one of the most highly-regarded tenor saxophonists in jazz. The New York Times praised him simply as “Possibly jazz’s premier player… his stature in the jazz world keeps growing... a great jazz musician.” With a distinctive tone, singular improvisational skills and an innovative compositional approach, Turner has earned a far-reaching reputation as one of jazz’s most original musical forces. As fellow saxophonist Ravi Coltrane put it, “Mark Turner is one of the most important players that has come along in the last 20 years, easily the most influential.” For this Athenaeum appearance, Turner reunites the musicians from his forthcoming release on ECM Records, a follow-up to his acclaimed 2014 album, “Lathe of Heaven.” All Music wrote, “This is deeply meditative music that defies categorization while at the same time bringing to mind such disparate touchstones as '70s Kenny Wheeler, '60s Ornette Coleman, and the lyrical '50s West Coast cool of the Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan pianoless quartet… Turner strips back layers of jazz style and language to reveal a sound that is both familiar and utterly new.”

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Jazz at Scripps Research Fall Series
Oct
4
7:30 PM19:30
Jazz at Scripps Series

Jazz at Scripps Research Fall Series

October 4, 16 & 28, 2021
7:30 PM

Athenaeum Jazz at the Scripps Research Auditorium returns to celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary! The Athenaeum presented the first three public concerts in the auditorium in the fall of 1996 with performances by Jimmy Smith, James Moody, and the TanaReid Quintet. So this fall we mark a milestone of a quarter century of concerts that have featured many of the most eminent artists in jazz. The series showcases the talents of an array of extraordinary artists: a special-edition quintet featuring Gilbert Castellanos on trumpet, Gerald Clayton on piano, John Clayton on bass, Roy McCurdy on drums, and Anthony Wilson on guitar; a rare West Coast date by critically acclaimed flutist and composer Jamie Baum; and the return of tenor saxophone giant Mark Turner. Seating is limited and early reservations are advised!

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