Legendary Saxophonist Houston Person to Perform at Clements Place Jazz

Jazz973 at Clements Place Jazz is proud to present the return of the Matt Chertkoff Trio featuring the Legendary Saxophonist Houston Person Dec 21, 2022 7 PM. After a wildly successful performance earlier this season, a return performance was requested by many in attendance and we are happy the band has agreed to return to entertain us. We are extremely excited as this promises to be a really swinging night of live music featuring the legendary and widely renowned saxophonist Houston Person. Joining us for this premier return engagement are the dynamic drummer Pete Van Nostrand and the always in demand, smooth cool bassist Mike Karn.

Veteran Guitarist, Matt Chertkoff has made a name for himself performing at jazz festivals and clubs around the globe. He has shared the stage with legends like Jimmy Cobb, Freddy Cole, Grady Tate, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Craig Handy among many others.

Joining Matt will be Saxophonist Houston Person. One of the most recorded jazz saxophonists alive today, Houston Person is coming to the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. Person, a tenor saxophonist who began his music journey on piano, has more than 100 albums to his name as a band leader and has performed on more than 300 albums total throughout his career. “With his robust sound and swinging style, Houston Person has kept the hard bop and organ-soaked soul-jazz traditions alive. Emerging from organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith's group, Person established his reputation as one of the Big Boss tenors in the Gene Ammons style with albums like 1968's Blue Odyssey, 1969's Goodness!, and 1970's Person to Person.”

Rounding out the Matt Chertkoff Trio will be Bassist Michael Karn who started in music as a tenor saxophonist, and after graduating high school he attended New York University, where his teachers were Joe Lovano and Jim McNeely. After college Michael immediately joined the Ray Charles Orchestra, and spent 1988 and '89 touring the United States, Europe, and Japan. Michael appeared with Ray at the Northsea and Playboy Jazz Festivals, and at such venues as the Blue Note, The Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, and the Wolftrap Center for the Performing Arts and Playboy Jazz Festivals, and at such venues as the Blue Note,

Filling out the trio will be drummer Pete Van Nostrand a graduate of Rutgers University, and The Juilliard School, is an in demand drummer and has been called on to perform with Steve Davis, Jeremy Pelt, Eric Reed, Aaron Parks, Gerald Clayton, Chihiro Yamanaka, Dan Nimmer, Jeb Patton, Jim Rotundi, Mike LeDonne, Paula West, SachalVasandani, among many others. More recently has has been working with Kenny Barron, Brian Lynch, Jimmy Heath, Kurt Elling, The Clayton Brothers, and Natalie Cole. He can be heard touring with the Aaron Dhiel Quartet, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and the Gerald Clayton trio.

Please join us at: 15 Washington Street, The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Building, Newark NJ. Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies - Clements Place Jazz. Clements Place is a venue for Jazz and music events inside a Rutgers Building in Newark New Jersey. A very classy cabaret style venue with a wonderful sound system, cozy atmosphere and a very cool jazz vibe. We document and announce upcoming jazz jams and show events at Clements Place.

Event produced by Gregory Burrus Productions and Rutgers IJS

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