MUSIC

John Cowherd: The Mercy Project

TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 5, 2023
8:00 & 10:00 PM

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

$40
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It’s been almost 10 years since pianist/composer John Cowherd — best known for his work with Brian Blade (who drums here) — released his own album as a leader, Mercy. It is somewhat astonishing that an album that good — that clear, that melodic, that harmonically inventive — was never followed up. But now Cowherd is touring it again. I hear saxophonist Chris Potter has been tearing it up on this tour.

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