Save the date this Thursday for SF Hotplate during Drums in the Lead at SF Jazz Center when Jaz Sawyer plays Roy Haynes Trio “We Three” during two concerts at 7 & 8:30pm, Joe Henderson Lab.

Acclaimed drummer Sawyer starts the season’s Hotplate series with a salute to drumming legend Roy Haynes and his landmark 1959 New Jazz album “We Three” with his distinguished trio including: Jaz Sawyer • drums, Ewell David • bass and Grant Levin • piano.

“This will be my 5th time performing at the Joe Henderson lab since 2014. Paying homage to the 1959 classic album “We Three”, featuring virtuoso pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr.”
Grant Levin

SF Jazz Center
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

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“Mr. Sawyer derives maximum melody from percussion.”
The New York Times

Grant Levin in Tiffany Austin Band SF Jazz

Vocalist Tiffany Austin and her band Howard Wiley on saxophone, bassist Ron Belcher, drummer Sly Randolph and pianist Grant Levin took the stage at SFJAZZ’s Joe Henderson Lab to celebrate her debut Nothing But Soul (Con Alma Music) June 12, 2015.

From the review by award winning photographer and writer Walter Atkins in All About Jazz Continue reading