The Brandee Youthful Trio will wrap up the subsequent season of Jazz at All Saints’ in March 2026. (Picture by Erin O’Brien)
Final 12 months, there was a brand new and thrilling addition to Atlanta’s jazz scene, and Jazz at All Saints’ is constructing on a profitable inaugural run with the announcement of its second season of artists.
The concert events will probably be held within the sanctuary of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Midtown (634 W. Peachtree St. NW), starting at 7 p.m.
Up first, on September 12, is drummer Robert Boone Jr. and his quartet, who will have a good time the centennial of the delivery of famend drummer and social activist Max Roach (who was born in January 1924). Grammy Award-winner Boone is the drummer for the legendary Depend Basie Orchestra and is a professor of jazz at Georgia State College.
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The esteemed jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon, a a number of Grammy nominee, headlines the November 14 live performance, mixing her personal compositions, famous for deep emotion and quiet knowledge, with acquainted alternatives from the jazz style. Her newest initiatives — the album Beneath the Pores and skin and the upcoming Duke College Press e-book Beneath the Pores and skin of Sorrow — honor her late husband, Phil Freelon, lead architect for the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American Tradition and Historical past and Atlanta’s Nationwide Heart for Civil and Human Rights.
South African trumpeter Darren English, who honed his bebop abilities at Georgia State College, takes the stage on February 13. He’s a well-known face at Atlanta jazz festivals and not too long ago accomplished a three-month tour of Europe, India and america.
The Brandee Youthful Trio will carry out on March 13. Youthful is carrying on the harp’s position in trendy jazz, impressed by the pioneering work of Alice Coltrane. Now the custodian of a harp performed by Coltrane, one of many ladies who created the harp’s distinctive voice in jazz, Youthful performed it in a latest Carnegie Corridor live performance devoted to the late virtuoso’s compositions. In 2022, she grew to become the primary Black girl to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Greatest Instrumental Composition.
The Jazz at All Saints’ Live performance sequence was created by Atlanta jazz vocalist Virginia Schenck, its inventive director, assisted by All Saints’ Director of Music Scott Lamlein. Following every live performance, Schenck conducts a Q&A session with the night’s headliner.
“Getting contained in the music, the artistry and creativity, is one among my passions,” Schenck mentioned in a press launch saying the brand new season. “It’s a part of our jazz schooling and our cultural heritage. Our intent for this sequence is to offer evenings of pleasure and soul in these difficult instances, for we consider within the transformative energy of jazz to deliver folks collectively in neighborhood and shared humanity.”