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Please join us Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm for the Kick off Concert for our 2025/2026
Harmony and Blessings concert series with the Legendary Ricky Ford Quartet!!!
Ricky has traveled all the way from France to perform a small, handful of Dates & Erie is one of them & With a Full Band of Veterans & Legends themselves!!!
Featuring:
Ricky Ford - tenor sax
John Kordalewski - paino
Jerome Harris - bass
Thurman Barker - drums
*Tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford studied at the New England Conservatory, with, among others, Gunther Schuller and Ran Blake; while still in his early 20s, he toured with both the Duke Ellington Orchestra (under Mercer Ellington's leadership) and Charles Mingus. By the 1980s, he was considered one of the leading tenor saxophonists of his generation. He worked with Dannie Richmond's Quintet, Lionel Hampton, Mal Waldron, Beaver Harris and Abdullah Ibrahim’s Ekaya, and also more than a dozen albums as a leader. He has lived in France since the 1990s.
*Acoustic bass guitarist Jerome Harris is best known for his work as a sideman with Sonny Rollins, and for his later work in groups led by drummer Bobby Previte and trombonist Ray Anderson, among others.
*John Kordalewski is the leader, arranger and pianist for the Makanda Project, a 13-piece group performing previously unrecorded Makanda Ken McIntyre compositions.
*Thurman Barker- AACM, percussionist Barker first played and recorded with fellow Chicagoans Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, Joseph Jarman, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton, in whose quartet he played in the late 70s. Economic survival meant periods of working in musical pit bands, but joining Cecil Taylor’s Unit in 1986 brought further exposure. Taylor’s dense, polyrhythmic style required the services of someone with an acute sense of structure and an incisive attack; these Barker has in abundance.
Refreshments & Desserts
Thank you to:
Richard Chapman Family
JazzErie
Stonehouse Electric
For your Sponsorship Contribution!
Tickets are $20 for this event.
Thank you for supporting!!!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
City Gallery, 1503 State St,Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
