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Alchemy
12/4/2009 8:00 PM at Jay Collins Band
297 Tinker Street, Woodstock, New York 12498
Cost: $10
“Jazz is a huge part of what I learned about music, but it’s just a piece of what I do,” says singer-songwriter, saxophonist, flautist, pianist and bandleader Jay Collins. With his Kings County Band, Collins mixes up blues, Afro-Cuban rhythms and funky New Orleans style into a modern patchwork of root-bound sound, though his fluidity and flights of improvisation as well as his music’s attitude could have only been inspired by jazz.
Collin’s latest solo recording, The Songbird and the Pigeon, emphasizes diversity–an equal measure of roots music as well as Latin percussion–and a growing confidence in his singing and songwriting abilities.
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