NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart has been future minded for seven decades. Making music with legends including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders, and countless others, Hart has been the engine behind some of the most adventurous modern jazz since the 1960s. Hart was a member of Hancock’s groundbreaking sextet Mwandishi, which radically pushed the boundaries of the electric jazz sound pioneered by Miles. Hart advances the impulses of this lineage in a concert featuring a special edition of his stellar quartet of more than 20 years: pianist Ethan Iverson and bassist Ben Street, with the phenomenal Nicole Glover guesting on sax.
The Detroit Free Press wrote, “Freedom, discipline, daring, passion, swing … want to know what jazz is really about? Listen to Billy Hart.”
Billy Hart Quartet
Nicole Glover, saxophone
Ethan Iverson, piano
Ben Street, bass
Billy Hart, drums
Online streaming also available for 72 hours following the performance.