MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
7:30 & 9:30 PM

Dave Douglas feat. Charles Tolliver: A Homage to Booker Little
Festival of New Trumpet Music
Jazz Standard
116 East 27th Street, NoMad, Manhattan

$30 per set; $100 Festival Pass (good for one set)
https://fontmusic.org/event/20190904/

Booker Little was a very great jazz trumpeter from the early '60s, moving from a heavy Clifford Brown influence (I mean, why not the best?) to an in-and-out style Little developed before such an approach had been codified — until his life was cut tragically short by disease at the shocking age of 23. What could be more exciting than a tribute to Little by Dave Douglas, maybe the premier trumpet player on the current jazz scene? How about a guest appearance by Charles Tolliver, a fixture of the loft jazz scene in the New York '70s whose work sounds even better now, in retrospect, than it did then? Lots of other good horn players — and a Cadillac rhythm section.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I don't like to keep repeating myself. But when a venue is right around the corner from a place as awesome as The NoMad Bar, what can I do?