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ARTISTS

NEW YORK STANDARDS QUARTET
Cambridge Modern Jazz, Hidden Rooms

 

The New York Standards Quartet (NYSQ) is pianist David Berkman, drummer Gene Jackson, saxophonist Tim Armacost, and bassist Daiki Yasukagawa.

 

The NYSQ are known for their love of jazz standards with ‘twisted’ arrangements true to their 21st century creative urges, making old material sound fresh. Formed in 2006 to perform the jazz they grew up learning, they play with great warmth and intelligence, and are a group ‘devoted to radical reinvention of famous pop songs and Broadway show tunes’. 

Thursday 19th Nov.

6:45 pm Highwalk (support)

8:00 pm NYSQ

The Guardian, in a glowing, four-star review of the band’s recent tour across the UK, asserts the NYSQ is “a group devoted to radical reinvention of famous pop songs and Broadway show tunes. Plenty of contemporary jazz artists do that, but few more divertingly than this vivacious foursome, who delightedly cherish the originals while brusquely deconstructing their harmonies and tweaking their melodies, sometimes only slipping in the original theme on the way out of the piece. This is a collective class act.”

The Guardian ☆☆☆☆

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