The Drums Will Speak of Legacy at Playboy Jazz Festival 2017
Drummer Carl Allen To Salute Elvin Jones and Art Blakey at Playboy Jazz Festival 2017
One of the true jazz highlights of this year’s Playboy jazz Festival will be drummer Carl Allen wearing his bandleader hat fronting a band that will pay tribute to jazz drumming immortals Art Blakey (leader of the legendary Jazz Messengers band- a school through which scores of then-young lions such as Horace Silver, Donald Byrd, Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan graduated with flying colors) and Elvin Jones (the mercurial titan most famous for being a member of John Coltrane’s classic quartet – including A Love Supreme – and as a leader in his own right).
