Livestream Concert: Immanuel Wilkins

MUSIC
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
8:00 PM

Jazz Gallery
YouTube

$10
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/livestream-immanuel-wilkins

This Jazz Gallery initiative presents full-scale concerts.  Next month, sax player Immanuel Wilkins releases his debut album as a leader, on Blue Note no less (and produced by Jason Moran, no less).  And he's gonna explode.  He's an excellent, inventive composer as well as a superb player, in the mainstream tradition but not limited by it.  (I hope I'm not cursing him if I call him a Tina Brooks for his generation — but only in the good ways.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Nothing could be more appropriate to this show than a Hearst, very much in the tradition but very much its own thing:  pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, with 1 dash each of orange bitters and Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.  Stir.  Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.