Sunday, October 6, 2024 The Makanda Project
/We are thrilled to bring back the Makanda Project, a 13-piece ensemble that has become an important part of the Boston jazz scene. Join us at 4:40 pm on October 6 at All Saints Church, 286 Seventh Ave in the heart of Park Slope, Brooklyn. The event is free, but a $10 donation is appreciated. Click HERE for tickets.
Led by pianist, bandleader and arranger, John Kordalewski, the Makanda Project explores and celebrates the richness of the unrecorded music of multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Dr. Makanda Ken McIntyre.
Makanda Ken McIntyre (1931-2001) was among the group of innovative jazz musicians who emerged during the early 1960s. He was well schooled in the jazz conventions of the 1940s and 1950s, but he created a path of his own, in which the improvisational language and compositional structures extended in some different directions.
Personnel includes: John Kordalewski – piano, arranger, conductor
Kurtis Rivers – alto saxophone
Seth Meicht – alto saxophone, clarinet, flute
Sean Berry – tenor saxophone
Temidayo Balogun – tenor saxophone
Charlie Kohlhase – baritone saxophone
Jerry Sabatini – trumpet
James Zollar – trumpet
Alfred Patterson – trombone
Richard Harper – trombone
Bill Lowe – bass trombone
Avery Sharpe – bass
Yoron Israel – drums