The Jon Faddis Quartet

7 pm Pre-Concert Interview

7:30 pm (Concert Hall setting)

9:30 pm (Jazz Club setting – BYOB)

Jon Faddis is a complete and consummate musician – conductor, composer,and educator. Marked by both intense integrity and humor, Faddis earned accolades from his close friend and mentor John Birks Gillespie, who declared of Faddis, “He’s the best ever, including me!” Time Out New York praises Faddis as “the world’s greatest trumpeter ... brash soloistic logic and breathtaking technical acuity,” and Nat Hentoff, in The Wall Street Journal, characterizes Faddis as “a trumpet player of prodigious lyrical force.”

Featuring:

Jon Faddis, Leader and Trumpet

Renee Rosnes, Piano

Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Bass

Dion Parson, Drums

Location: Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall

Tickets: $25, $20 students/seniors; $15 standing room, $10 children under 10.

Two Concert Package: $40, $30 students/seniors; $20 standing room.

Saturday, March 2nd