Monk Festival: Renee Rosnes Quartet “Monk’s Sphere”

*PLEASE NOTE: All 6:30PM and 8:30PM shows at Smoke are Dinner Shows

$25.00 / $40.00 / $50.00 / $55.00 – Wed, Thur, & Fri

$25.00 / $50.00 / $60.00 / $65.00 – Sat

Nicole Glover – tenor saxophone

Renee Rosnes – piano

David Wong – bass

Carl Allen – drums

“Few jazz pianists are as scarily satisfying.” — The Times (UK)

Renee Rosnes, one of the essential pianists and composers working today, opens Smoke’s annual two-week celebration of Thelonious Monk with a quartet of some of her favorite colleagues.

“Her style at the keyboard is powerful and modernistic, combining classical technique and sharp, clean phrases with a dramatic compositional style,” says Stereogum. “The music is reminiscent of mid-’60s Blue Note albums by players like Joe Henderson, Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson (with whom Rosnes worked), Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter, and Tony Williams; it swings, and never loses touch with the blues, but it’s also abstract and biting.”

Rosnes is joined by tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, bassist David Wong, and drummer Carl Allen.