Name: Indianapolis Jazz Collective featuring Rayford Griffin | Indy Jazz Fest Sunset Series
Start: 2025-09-16T18:00:00-04:00
Location: The Jazz Kitchen

Indianapolis Jazz Collective featuring Rayford Griffin | Indy Jazz Fest Sunset Series

SHOWS | 6 & 8:30p
The Indianapolis Jazz Collective is an all-star group of the city’s finest jazz musicians. Led by Indy Jazz Fest Artistic Director Rob Dixon, and featuring pianist Steve Allee, bassist Jon Wood and featuring world-renowned Indy-native, drummer Rayford Griffin.
Originally from Indianapolis, Rayford Griffin is internationally respected as among the most inventive, volcanic and versatile drummers in music, having amassed stellar credits with virtuosos ranging from Jean-Luc Ponty and The Stanley Clarke Band, George Duke, to Dave Koz, Anita Baker and Michael Jackson. Griffin was one of the more prominent drummers from Indy-based local fusion band, Merging Traffic, which he joined in 1977.