KBJO Collective - LIVE STREAMING CONCERT at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club

The KBJO Collective is a quartet of young musicians who are among the most talked about and popular in jazz: trumpeter Keyon Harrold, pianist Julius Rodriguez, bassist Ben Williams, and drummer Otis Brown III. Their combined performing, recording and producing experience is genre-defying and ranges from jazz, R&B, pop, gospel, blues and hip hop. Wynton Marsalis called Harrold—who has worked with Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Common, Erykah Badu, and Lauryn Hill—“the future of the trumpet.” The youngest member, pianist Rodriguez is simply “a revelation” according to the San Francisco Classical Voice going on to make note of “his pointed intelligence and beautiful touch.” Bassist Williams, whose long list of credits include Pat Metheny's Unity Band, Wynton Marsalis, George Benson, Robert Glasper, Pharrell and the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, was also the 2011 winner of the Monk Competition...

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The KBJO Collective is a quartet of young musicians who are among the most talked about and popular in jazz: trumpeter Keyon Harrold, pianist Julius Rodriguez, bassist Ben Williams, and drummer Otis Brown III. Their combined performing, recording and producing experience is genre-defying and ranges from jazz, R&B, pop, gospel, blues and hip hop. Wynton Marsalis called Harrold—who has worked with Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Common, Erykah Badu, and Lauryn Hill—“the future of the trumpet.” The youngest member, pianist Rodriguez is simply “a revelation” according to the San Francisco Classical Voice going on to make note of “his pointed intelligence and beautiful touch.” Bassist Williams, whose long list of credits include Pat Metheny's Unity Band, Wynton Marsalis, George Benson, Robert Glasper, Pharrell and the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, was also the 2011 winner of the Monk Competition. Drummer and Blue Note recording artist Brown is “a fierce and flowing agent of rhythm” says the New York Times. Don’t miss this exciting collective quartet.

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