Cyrus Chestnut, Buster Williams, Lenny White, Leszek Mo?d?er, Lars Danielsson, Zohar Fresco

An intriguing double-bill of classical influenced European jazz and the great American tradition.

The son of a church organist, Cyrus Chestnut started his musical career at the age of three and playing piano at the Mount Calvary Star Baptist Church at the age of five in his hometown of Baltimore, MD. He honed his craft as a sideman with some of the greatest musicians in the business - Jon Hendricks, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, Chick Corea, Jimmy Heath, Joe Williams, Isaac Hayes, and Dizzy Gillespie just to name a few. Even the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, asked him to join her on one of her Christmas Concerts in 2013. For these two dates he will be performing material from his new trio album with killer rhythm section Williams and White, 'Natural Essence'.

Leszek Mo?d?er is something of a hero in his native Poland, widely considered to be Polish Jazz’s greatest revelation of the last decade. Accompanied by a ‘dream team’ of virtuoso Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson and Israeli percussionist Zohar Fresco, this is a piano trio of rare distinction that embodies the contemporary spirit of European jazz, combining classical sensibility with a command of sonic texture and an effervescent spontaneity – ‘astoundingly accomplished’ (Daily Telegraph).