A PLACE FOR JAZZ Scott Hamilton & Harry Allen Quintet Centennial Tribute to Al Cohn & Zoot Sims

Start: Friday, April 25, 2025 7:30PM
End: Friday, April 25, 2025 9:30PM

Join us in bringing the very best in jazz to the Capital District, as A Place for Jazz presents the Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen Quintet Centennial Tribute to Al Cohn and Zoot Sims for this Spring Concert. Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen Quintet present A Centennial Tribute to Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. Featuring Scott Hamilton, Harry Allen, Rossano Sportiello, Mike Karn and Aaron Kimmel. Scott Hamilton is the premier ‘mainstream’ saxophonist of today, with the handsome sound and impeccable phrasing of Scott’s creative imagination and the beautiful, honeyed sound he gets out of the tenor saxophone. Long regarded a consummate performer, arranger and interpreter of standards, Scoff Hamilton’s big, warm tenor saxophone tone and unerring sense of swing have a way of making every tune he plays uniquely his own. Harry Allen performs at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, frequently touring the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Harry has performed with Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gus Johnson, Jeff Hamilton, Terry Gibbs, Warren Vache. He has recorded over 70 CDs as a leader and many more as a sideman with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, Dave McKenna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Goldings, George Mraz, Jake Hanna, and Al Foster, among others. Award-winning jazz pianist Rossano Sportiello has performed with many of the world’s finest jazz luminaries, such as Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Barry Harris, Dan Barrett, Kenny Davern, Bucky Pizzarelli, Bob Wilber, Warren Vache, Bob Cranshaw, Mickey Roker, Harry Allen, Howard Alden, Joe Wilder, Eddie Locke, Joe La Barbera, Scott Hamilton, Jake Hanna, and Houston Person. Rossano appears at Lincoln Center, the Blue Note, Birdland, Feinstein's, the 92nd Street Y, Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, the Café Carlyle and internationally at music festivals and concerts. Mike Karn has performed throughout the world with some of the jazz world’s biggest names as a tenor saxophonist, and as a top call bassist. In 2007 Michael began to seriously pursue the bass and within a couple of years was working with some of New York’s best musicians, performing throughout the the U.S. and Canada. Michael has performed/recorded with John Pizzarelli, George Coleman, Frank Wess, Houston Person, Bob Wilber, Joe Lovano, Bennie Wallace, Walt Weiskopf, Harry Allen, Craig Handy, Grant Stewart, Eric Alexander, Ken Pleplowski, Harold Mabern, Barry Harris, Johnny O’Neal, Mike LeDonne, David Hazeltine, Michael Weiss, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gene Bertoncini, Peter Bernstein, Jimmy Cobb, Al Foster, Victor Lewis, Lewis Nash and Dennis Mackrel. Aaron Kimmel frequently appears at Smalls and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, performing as a sideman with the Benny Green trio, Aaron Diehl, among others. He has also played with such jazz luminaries as Harry Allen, Ken Peplowski, Eric Alexander, Joe Magnarelli, Grant Stewart, Terell Stafford, Ryan Kisor, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Brian Lynch, Ann Hampton Callaway, Mary Stallings and Jon Faddis.