As you plan your new year, plan on NOT missing ACS (@Geri Geri Allen,Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on Jan 25.http://www.njpac.org/events/detail/acs-featuring-geri-allen-terri-lyne-carrington-esperanza-spalding-and-moreFormed out of their work on Carrington’s Grammy Award-winning album The Mosaic Project, ACS is stretching boundaries with music that is as elegant as it is experimental. “(ASC’s) expressionistic push-pull turns out to be a show of jazz fealty as disorienting as it is riveting,” says The Village Voice.
Opening for ACS will be “The Philadelphia Experiment” t with special guests Eric Krasno, guitarist from Soulive, and DJ Logic; avant-garde pianist Uri Caine; hip-hop drummer Ahmir Khalib “?uestlove” Thompson, and bassist Christian McBride, Jazz Advisor for NJPAC
As a special part of this event, Spalding and Christian McBride will take to the stage to perform a bass duet.