Live in The Allen Room Series

Saxophonist Joshua Redman show-cases his extraordinary tone and penchant for creating elegant melodies within challenging structures and infusing them with emotional content. Propelling the flow is his working quartet—pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson.

Maria Schneider, a two-time GRAMMY® Award winner, brings her 17-member collective into The Allen Room for her first JALC appearance since 2003. The composer-arranger will present her lyrical, intricately woven, and sensuous pieces highlighted with ravishing instrumental colors and textures.

Pianist Eric Reed, an alumnus of the JLCO, leads the first-ever New York staging of Dave Brubeck's rarely-heard masterwork, The Real Ambassadors, addressing the still-topical civil rights movement. Written at the behest of the US State Department in the 1950s at the height of his fame, pianist-composer Dave Brubeck and his wife Iola, in collaboration with Louis Armstrong, drew on their respective experiences spreading American culture and music around the world to create this jazz musical.