Event Concerts and Performances Immanuel Wilkins Quartet

Immanuel Wilkins, saxophone
Micah Thomas, piano
Rick Rosato, bass
Kweku Sumbry, drums.

Saxophonist, composer and arranger, Blue Note artist and Downbeat Rising Star, Immanuel Wilkins is a vital voice in a new generation of jazz thinkers. “His sound is most often silky and lush…with a gorgeous tone and phrasing… but he can shift into a grittier gospel feel or an airier whisper as the art requires.” (Pop Matters.com). “My work is the intersection between spiritual practice and Black aesthetics,” Wilkins says, referencing John Coltrane and the music of the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of his Philadelphia childhood. Last fall, he toured major jazz havens in Europe, hitting festivals in Stockholm, Berlin and Madrid and venues like Hamburg’s Elb Philharmonie. In March, after a residency at New York’s The Stone, performing with Bill Frisell, Susie Ibarra and other colleagues, Wilkins makes a stop at the Library as part of a nationwide swing across the heartland with his longtime quartet: Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass, and Kweku Sumbry on drums.

There will be no pre-concert talk for this event.

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