The Arts Center at Duck Creek Music Series Presents The Kayvon Gordon Sextet on July 23

The Arts Center at Duck Creek (https://www.duckcreekarts.org/) will continue their 2026 Music Series with the Kayvon Gordon Sextet on Thursday, July 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. The evening features Kayvon Gordon on Drums, Joel Ross on Vibraphone, David Leon on Saxophone, Elias Stemeseder on Piano, Dean Torrey on Bass and Shakoor Hakeem on Percussion, with Kayvon Gordon, Joel Ross, David Leon and Elias Stemeseder being Duck Creek Music Series alumni.

“We will be doing a completely improvised set of music, with the idea that we’ll be listening the entire time, which I suppose already puts us in pretty ambitious territory…I got into this type of work by playing a lot of different types of music and realizing that a lot of the deepest moments occurred before you could really name them or pin them down,” says Kayvon Gordon. “I’m really attracted to the danger in that. I like the fact that music can still surprise the people making it and the sound of this band is very much that, very much the sound of inventing a language while you’re speaking it.”

Kayvon Gordon was born and raised in Detroit. At a young age, he was taken under the mentorship of legendary trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. Later, he went on to the University of Michigan where he studied with Robert Hurst and Benny Green. Gordon has performed In Europe, Africa, South Asia, The United Arab Emirates, and North America. He has also had the honor of sharing the stage with Marcus Belgrave, Joe Lovano, Johnny O’Neal, Robert Hurst, Rodney Whitaker, Sullivan Fortner, Ravi Coltrane, JD Allen and Wynton Marsalis, to name a few. Kayvon Gordon seeks to contribute to the forward-thinking aesthetic of his contemporaries while honoring the rich musical legacy of Detroit.