October Open Day Last Sunday with The Jon Mayer Trio

 

World Music Series Presents

The Jon Mayer Trio

 

With Bassist Will Lyle and
Celebrated Drummer Roy McCurdy

Open Day Last Sunday

October 27 

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Concert at 2:00 p.m.

Free with garden admission

$7.50 Online / $10 at the gate

Members always admitted with free garden admission for two, no registration

Children 12 and under admitted free

 

Jon Mayer mixes “introspective lyricism and a hard-bop drive. He’s a strong rhythmic player with a lot of piano vocabulary.” – Kirk Silsbee, Downbeat Magazine

Pianist Jon Mayer is from the tradition of New York players who are not afraid to express strong emotions from both ends of the spectrum. He is a muscular, blues based pianist on one hand and is entirely at home with a ballad and it’s potential for tenderness. His jazz pedigree is solid, having grown up in New York City during a particularly fertile time in modern jazz evolution. Mayer is represented on a John Coltrane recording Like Sonny on Roulette and on a Jackie McLean Prestige date called Strange Blues.

He also spent time in the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Band, and had road assignments with Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughan, Anita O’Day and Manhattan Transfer.
Mayer’s compositions have been recorded by Les McAnn, Barry White’s Love Unlimited Orchestra, Nancy Wilson, Gladys Knight, Ernie Watts and Jackie Ryan.
Recordings under his own name date from 1996 to the present with nine Jon Mayer Trio releases plus the solo "Live" CD called The Art of the Ballad. What’s hot off the press is Jon Mayer Trio Live at the Atheneaum.

 

See a map and instructions for parking HERE. 

• Reservations close the day before at 5pm
• Children 12 and under are free and are admitted without registration
• We often sell out on the Last Sunday so reservations are recommended
• The garden is open to the public on the second and last Sundays of each month. Closed the last Sunday of December 
• The garden is wheelchair accessible
• Sorry, no pets allowed
• Open rain or shine. We are not able to issue refunds

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