Leading off this Sunday with Lionel Loueke, a phenomenal new voice on guitar, Connecticut Guitar Society (CGS) brings its dinner/concert “Summer Jazz Series" back for an encore season.
Loueke, a West African protege of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard, serves his tangy mix of American jazz and traditional African music as he leads his trio Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at Sweet Jane's restaurant, 88 Pratt St., Hartford.
A dinner is served at 6 p.m. in the four-part Sunday evening series, whose hallmark in its debut season last summer was its combination of fine food and gourmet servings of A-list guitar players and their sidekicks.
If you haven't yet heard “Karibu," Loueke's new label debut on Blue Note Records, you're in for a delicious treat right from your first taste of this guitarist/vocalist/composer/ bandleader's vibrant, original, innovative style. It's an intoxicating brew of jazz that rocks in polyrhythms and odd-metered grooves and rolls with elements of seduction, sophistication and celebration.
Loueke is both a weaver of dreams and a bold explorer who uses his magical/mystery music as a kind of high-flying time machine, criss-crossing from ancient to contemporary modes, creating a timeless, seamless blend.
Loueke, a West African protege of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard, serves his tangy mix of American jazz and traditional African music as he leads his trio Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at Sweet Jane's restaurant, 88 Pratt St., Hartford.
A dinner is served at 6 p.m. in the four-part Sunday evening series, whose hallmark in its debut season last summer was its combination of fine food and gourmet servings of A-list guitar players and their sidekicks.
If you haven't yet heard “Karibu," Loueke's new label debut on Blue Note Records, you're in for a delicious treat right from your first taste of this guitarist/vocalist/composer/ bandleader's vibrant, original, innovative style. It's an intoxicating brew of jazz that rocks in polyrhythms and odd-metered grooves and rolls with elements of seduction, sophistication and celebration.
Loueke is both a weaver of dreams and a bold explorer who uses his magical/mystery music as a kind of high-flying time machine, criss-crossing from ancient to contemporary modes, creating a timeless, seamless blend.
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