On Tuesday, May 8th, the Alex Sadnik Quintet featuring Ron Stout on Trumpet will perform a tribute to Jazz legend Lee Morgan at Fingerprints Music. Music starts at 7:30 PM. There is a suggested donation of $10.
Lee Morgan has a unique mystique, created by his meteoric rise at a young age, the sheer volume of material (25 albums as a leader on Blue Note Records), his associations with some of the genre’s most important figures (Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and Stanley Turrentine, for example), and his tragic and untimely death: Murdered at 33 years old by his common law wife. Mostly, though, it is his artistry as a musician.
Alex Sadnik (sax), Doug Carter (piano), and Anthony Shadduck (bass) have been organizing music performances under the moniker of Break The Mold in a variety of locations in the last 18 months, primarily at the Exhibit [A] Gallery on Pine Avenue. The series has featured an amazing array of local and regional talent. The show, tomorrow, is a part of that continuing series.
Ron Stout is on the faculty in CSULB’s Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. His list of credits is impossibly long, but one gleaming highlight is his involvement with Supersax, a ‘super group’ of L.A. Jazz cats that play insane ensemble arrangements of carefully notated solos by Charlie Parker. He can be heard on recordings with Bill Holman, Bob Florence, Jack Sheldon, Phil Norman, and Barbara Morrison.
In this video, Alex, Doug, Anthony and drummer James Yoshizawa play Morgan’s arrangement of You Go To My Head, and talk about how the tribute came together.
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Learn more about Break The Mold.
Learn more about Alex at AlexSadnik.com.
For upcoming events at Fingerprints, visit FingerprintsMusic.com.