BRIAN LYNCH | DONALD HARRISON
ROBIN EUBANKS | BENNY GREEN
ALEXANDER CLAFFY | CARL ALLEN
at 7:00pm & 9:00pm + 10:30pm Fri & Sat Only
Master drummer Carl Allen leads a very special sextet of Messengers’ alumni in celebration of the musical legacy of the great Art Blakey. Allen grew up idolizing Blakey’s hard-driving swing, and after he started playing with the legendary trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, a former member of Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the iconic drummer named Allen an honorary Messenger. Individually, these musicians embody the spirit of Blakey with their virtuosity and fire, but together they are transcendent.