Tickets
Members: $25
Non-Members: $30
Student/Young Patron: $15
Hamptons Jazz Fest presents award winning drummer and bandleader, Matt Wilson and his quartet. Wilson is on a mission to foster lively and deep connection between music and people. He comes to The Church with extensive experience and heightened passion, ensuring that jazz aficionados and jazz newcomers alike will leave with enthusiasm and energy.
Wilson has released thirteen albums as a leader. And as a sideman, he has played alongside an impressive array of some of the most legendary names in Jazz, including Wynton Marsalis, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Joanne Brackeen, and Herbie Hancock, to name a few. He encourages his audiences and inspiring students to be as individualistic and imaginative as possible.
ABOUT MATT WILSON
Wilson was named 2018 Musician of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association and his album, Honey And Salt (Music Inspired by the Poetry of Carl Sandburg), won the JJA’s Album of the Year Award. That recording and his previous one, Beginning of a Memory, accomplished the rare feat of an artist receiving consecutive 5-star (masterpiece) reviews from DownBeatmagazine.
ABOUT HAMPTONS JAZZ FEST
Hamptons Jazz Fest, produced by The Jam Session, Inc., is a series of performances that bring world-class musicians in the fields of jazz, Latin, and world music to a diverse cross-section of populations on the east end of Long Island, held in iconic venues throughout July, August, and September. HJF also stages a Winter Series during the remainder of the year. They present dozens of concerts at no or low cost and collaborate with other non-profit cultural organizations like OLA of Eastern Long Island, the Parrish Art Museum, The Church in Sag Harbor, East Hampton LTV, the Bridgehampton Childcare and Recreation Center, the Shinnecock Nation, and others to engage the diverse groups from the East End in our performance and educational events.
ABOUT THE JAM SESSIONS INC.
The Jam Session, Inc. is a not-for-profit production and education arts organization that produces live jazz music, including Latin and world music, through performances, recording, broadcast, and educational opportunities for the people of the East End of Long Island, primarily Eastern Suffolk County. The Jam Session brings the music to the community it serves in various ways, including at partnering venues that are accessible and well served to the public. The Jam Session’s ultimate purpose is to bring these diverse groups together through music and have shared public experiences and thus nourish the roots of the community…its people.