COUNTDOWN 2027 COLTRANE FESTIVAL VII: Tia Fuller with the Countdown Festival Quartet featuring Vincent Herring & Eric Scott Reed

*PLEASE NOTE: All 6:00PM and 8:00PM shows at Smoke are Dinner Shows

$25.00 / $60.00 / $70.00 / $75.00 – Sat

Tia Fuller – alto saxophone

Vincent Herring – alto saxophone

Eric Scott Reed – piano

Gerald Cannon – bass

Willie Jones III – drums

“Tia Fuller is one of the top alto saxophonists in the last decade…” – Jazz Monthly

“Herring fuses instrumental mastery with equal and unified parts of jazz’s holy trinity of heart, mind, and soul.” – WNPR

“Eric Scott Reed has been a pianist of fiery passion and soulful finesse.” – WRTI

Alto saxophonist Tia Fuller is the special guest of the Countdown Festival Quartet featuring saxophonist Vincent Herring and pianist Eric Scott Reed. One of the most dynamic voices on the alto today, Fuller toured the world as featured soloist in Beyoncé’s all-female band and played the saxophone of Dorothea Williams in Pixar’s Oscar-winning Soul. Her GRAMMY- nominated album Diamond Cut prompted DownBeat to call her playing “a master class in alto saxophone expression.”

The Countdown Festival Quartet is led by two Smoke favorites: alto saxophonist Vincent Herring and pianist Eric Scott Reed. The New York City Jazz Record says Herring “has firmly established himself as one of his generation’s masters,” and The New York Times notes that he “projects his sound in a strong, centered beam.” His latest Smoke Sessions release, Split Decision, a live summit with tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander recorded at Smoke, prompted Downbeat to call the pair “two of the finest saxophonists on the jazz scene,” and made The Times of London’s mid-year list of the best jazz albums of 2025. Reed, a veteran of Wynton Marsalis’s septet and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, is “one of my very favorite pianists,” according to the late, great Ahmad Jamal, and All About Jazz says he has “fully established himself at the forefront of jazz pianists.” With bassist Gerald Cannon and drummer Willie Jones III rounding out the rhythm section, it’s a hard-swinging band that anchors Smoke’s holiday week of special guests.