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Warren Vache Quintet plays Benny Carter/Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet

Warren Vache Quintet plays Benny Carter/Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet

Trumpet player Warren Vache returns to Savannah with his own quintet, following his 2014 appearance in the SMF production of “Ladies Sing the Blues” featuring Catherine Russell and Charenee Wade. Warren Vache’s style has been influenced by a great variety of the classic players—Louis Armstrong, George “Pee Wee” Erwin (with whom Vache studied for many years), Roy Eldridge, Bobby Hackett, Clifford Brown, Blue Mitchell and Billy Butterfield, among others‚ while developing his own inimitable style. This program features the music of jazz giant Benny Carter, the multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and distinguished NEA Jazz Master whose arrangements were featured on recordings by Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Count Basie and numerous Hollywood movie soundtracks. Vache’s quintet features tenor saxophonist Houston Person (who wowed 2012 SMF audiences performing with Bill Charlap and leading his own quartet), pianist Tardo Hammer, bassist Nicki Parrott and drummer Leroy Williams.

Percussionist Jason Marsalis has performed in nearly every Savannah Music Festival since 2004, in addition to working as a core clinician at Swing Central Jazz and serving as Music Director in last year’s finale concert, “Kind of Blue: Miles, Trane and Cannonball.” In recent years, Marsalis has led his own band in which he performs on the vibraphone. Exploring a vast range of material that includes compositions by Bobby Hutcherson and Hermeto Pascoal, the quartet primarily focuses on Marsalis’ original compositions. While this band plays with the dynamic control and precision of a chamber ensemble, their bluesy authority and improvisational firepower leave no doubt as to why Jason Marsalis was named an NEA Jazz Master along with his father Ellis and his brothers Branford, Wynton and Delfeayo. He will be joined by Austin Johnson on piano, Will Goble on bass and Dave Potter on drums.

Savannah College of Art and Design