Words & Music: Gerald Clayton

MUSIC
MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2020
6:00 PM

Zoom

$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/happy-hour-gerald-clayton

A Jazz Gallery initiative featuring remote sessions where jazz musicians play and chat with the audience (limited to 15 people per show).  Tonight's performer is Gerald Clayton, a solid, interesting pianist-composer whose last album I could not recommend more highly for its fresh treatment of The Traditon (as well as its understanding that The Tradition is a living thing that extends to current vernacular usages).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Midnight Stinger:  pour 1 oz. of Bourbon and Fernet Branca, and 3/4 oz. each of lemon juice and Simple Syrup, into a cocktail shaker WITHOUT ice.  Dry shake.  Strain into a mug or Old Fashioned glass 2/3 filled with crush ice.  Top with more crushed ice.  Garnish with a mint sprig.