Renee Rosnes Quartet

Fri, Nov 22

*PLEASE NOTE: All 7PM and 9PM shows at Smoke are Dinner Shows $35|$40|$50|$55 Renee Rosnes – piano Steve Nelson – vibraphone Peter Washington – bass Lewis Nash – drums “Few jazz pianists are as scarily satisfying.” – The Times (UK) Renee Rosnes, one of the essential pianists and composers working today, leads 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’s impressive quartet includes vibraphonist Steve Nelson, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Lewis Nash.