Doors open: 8:00 PM

Show: 8:30 PM

Drummer and bandleader Sylvia Cuenca brings together an extraordinary multigenerational ensemble for Bridging Generations, pairing some of jazz’s most accomplished veterans with two compelling voices from a new generation.

Cuenca has spent decades performing around the world with jazz legends, including four years with Joe Henderson and seventeen years with Clark Terry, as well as collaborations with Kenny Barron, Gary Bartz, Billy Taylor, Dianne Reeves, Gregory Porter, John Clayton and many others. For this special program, she is joined by GRAMMY Award–winning pianist David Kikoski, a longtime member of the Mingus Big Band who has performed and recorded with Roy Haynes, Michael Brecker, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and John Scofield; and acclaimed bassist Essiet Essiet, whose remarkable career includes Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Bobby Watson’s Horizon, Abdullah Ibrahim, the Blue Note All-Stars and countless leading figures in jazz.

Representing a rising generation are…