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31 Aug / 1 / 2 Sept 50 YEARS OF GIANT STEPS & KIND OF BLUE presented by Denys Baptiste Quartet &

Gary Crosby’s Nu Troop
As part of the club’s 50th anniversary and our simultaneous celebration of the ground-breaking jazz albums recorded during the first year of the club opening, we present two of most iconic recordings of 1959. Mercury nominated saxophonist Denys Baptiste whose primary influence has been John Coltrane, fronts the cracking rhythm section of Andrew McCormack piano, Gary Crosby bass and Rod Youngs drums in their epic journey through the classic ‘Giants Steps’, a mixture of hard bop tenor sax, driving rhythm and enchanting sensitivity within its calmer moments. The quartet is then augmented by New Orleans trumpeter Abram Wilson and saxophonist Jason Yarde to recreate jazz’s best selling album of all-time and modal jazz classic: Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’.