Brubeck Brothers Quartet to bring jazz to Zankel this Friday

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet will perform in concert at 8 p.m. Friday, April 13, at the Arthur Zankel Music Center, Skidmore College, as part of the college's Filene Concert Series. Admission is $12 adults, $7 seniors, and $3 Skidmore students. Tickets may be reserved here. 

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet(BBQ) features two members of one of America's most accomplished musical families: Dan Brubeck (drums,) and Chris Brubeck (bass and trombone). Guitarist Mike DeMicco and pianist Chuck Lamb complete this dynamic quartet. The group has performed at concert series, colleges, and jazz festivals across North America and Europe, including the Newport, Detroit, Ravinia, Las Vegas, Sedona, Spokane and Monterey jazz festivals. The BBQ's hour-long concert at Sierra Nevada Brewery has been broadcast on the nationally syndicated program "Sierra Center Stage." 

Their new Koch release, Classified, earned this review from All About Jazz:

"Once again the BBQ attains that rarefied level where music is both relaxed and expressive, and their joy in its creation is contagious. There's really nothing out there that comes close to their unique brand of inventiveness." These versatile musicians also collaborate with orchestras, and in 2006 ignited the Salt Lake City Jazz Festival by playing with the Utah Symphony, conducted by Keith Lockhart.

With Chris Brubeck's compositions as a vehicle, the BBQ has joined with chamber groups to collaborate with musicians from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Russian National Symphony Orchestra. The Brubeck Brothers Quartet's debut Koch recording, Intuition, impressed the national jazz media and spent several weeks in the top 10 radio charts while earning enthusiastic reviews from JazzTimes, Downbeat, Boston Globe and many other respected publications. Although the quartet's style is rooted in "straight-ahead" jazz, its concerts reveal an inherent ability to explore and play odd time signatures while naturally integrating the influences of funk, blues, and world music. The group's creativity, technique, and improvisation can be heard in its uncompromising music, which reflects a special dedication to melody, rhythm, culture and the spontaneous spirit of jazz.

Admission for the April 13, 8 p.m. Brubeck Brothers Quartet performance is $12 adults, $7 seniors, and $3 Skidmore students. For advance reservations click here or call the Zankel box office (518) 580-8381 for more information. The Zankel Music Center is wheelchair accessible and offers listening devices for the hearing impaired. For more information, please click here.