MUSIC

Kenny Barron Quintet

TUESDAY – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 – 18, 2022
8:00 & 10:00 PM

Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan

$40
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This isn’t really the kind of music we usually List, but it’s too good pass up. Kenny Barron — the most elegant active pianist in all of jazz, a player who seemingly never puts a finger wrong — has assembled a quintet fronted by Immanuel Wilkins, an acute mainstream altoist who could have been born to be with Barron, and Steve Nelson, who’s been New York’s utility vibesman for so long he gets taken shamefully for granted. Slick in the BEST way.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now that the Vin Sur Vignt wine bar has moved to more spacious quarters across the street, it’s less cute. But I’ll bet it’s still pretty good. (And it’s even than closer than before to the Vanguard.)