Events Gallery
7:00pm Show Time
6:00pm Event Gallery Doors

$25.00 Reserved

The Event Gallery will be transformed into a jazz club. We invite you to enjoy an intimate concert with jazz great Kenny Werner and a variety of beverages from our bar service and dessert cart.

Born in 1951, Kenny Werner got an early start as a pianist. At the age of 11, he recorded a single with a 15-piece orchestra and appeared on television playing stride piano. He attended the Manhattan School of Music while still in high school, and later the Berklee School of Music when he felt the pull of jazz.

His first jazz recording, in 1977, featured the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and George Gershwin, and later that year he recorded with Charles Mingus on “Something Like a Bird”. In 1981, he released his first album of original work, Beyond the Forest of Mirkwood, followed by 298 Bridge Street a year later.

In the mid 90s he joined the Mel Lewis Orchestra, performing with and writing for the group later known as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He’s also written compositions for groups around the world such as the Cologne Radio Jazz Orchestra, the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, The Metropole Orchestra and the Umo Jazz Orchestra. From 2000 – 2007 he’s appeared with a trio featuring Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmuller, and have recorded three cds to date. He’s also performed and collaborated with the likes of Joe Lovano, Betty Buckley, Toots Thielmans, and Oscar Castro-Neves. In 2002 he was nominated for a Grammy for best instrumental composition for a duo with Thielmans.

In 2007 he wrote an extended composition for the MIT wind ensemble and an entire evening with Betty Buckley and the Seattle Symphony, which he will record this year. He has also published a groundbreaking book on aspects of mastering and performing, Effortless Mastery, which is considered an essential read for artists of any kind, and is required reading at many universities. Additionally, h has received four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

All dates, acts, times and ticket prices subject to change without notice. Add $5 to all ticket prices day-of-show.

“Perfection. 360 degrees of soul and science in one human being. My kind of musician.” – Quincy Jones

“Kenny Werner is a total musician. He feeds my heart and my brain and pushes me into fresh territories. I am grateful that our agendas can coincide that often. – Toots Thielemans

“… an ebullient stylist … his solos start evenhandedly and become wooly rides into the darkness.” – The Village Voice

"Mr. Werner and his trio took apart two pieces, a swinging original of his own called ‘Jackson Five’ along with ‘You and the Night and the Music’,
and reconfigured them with all sorts of nearly miraculous rhythm and tempo changes….a type of rhythm section fluidity that’s rarely heard….
Mr. Werner is a clear virtuoso, and when he solos there’s wit
everywhere, with clichés dragged out of the closet to poke fun at or
rhythmic bumps added for humor.” – Peter Watrous, New York Times

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