Recently gracing the covers of Downbeat and Jazz Times magazines, Matt Wilson has moved center stage among the premier percussionists in jazz. And though he has powered the bands of everyone from Elvis Costello to Wynton Marsalis to John Zorn, it is with his own quartet that he truly comes to life. “I get to express myself in all the contexts I play.” he recently told Downbeat, “I don’t go in with an agenda, I know that I want to make any song feel good and comfortable.” A pure bolt of energy behind the kit, his drumming and bandleading is suffused with the kind of high, good humor that sends everyone home happy. “If you can make people laugh, you can make people cry, though if you are on middle ground you are not doing either. To me, a little bit of all of that is a successful engagement.”Catch his energy at Herndon Gallery in South Hall at Antioch College in Yellow Springs on Saturday, February 27. Tickets are only $10.
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