Montreal International Jazz Festival presents
Sanchez, Payton and Harris
Jazz Beat Hyatt Regency Montreal
The first is a star saxophonist who started out with Dizzy Gillespie. The second is a renowned trumpeter influenced by the immortal Miles Davis. The third is a celebrated vibraphonist we've enjoyed with the SF Jazz Collective.
Together, they are a super trio of young talents (accompanied by a 4-piece rhythm section) reunited for Cuban groove/post-bop/jazz project Ninety Miles, the onstage version of an album conceived in Cuba by Sánchez and Harris with Christian Scott, replaced here by Payton for this tour.
Ninety Miles Project
Critically acclaimed jazz musicians vibist Stefon Harris, saxophonist David Sánchez and trumpeter Christian Scott have collaborated to create a distinctly unique collection of songs, Ninety Miles. Recorded over the span of a week in Havana, Cuba, the US based trio recruited local Cuban musicians including pianists Rember Duharte and Harold López-Nussa to create the 9 song collection. The result is a true Cuban American musical collaboration that defies political borders. Ninety Miles will be released on Concord Picante on June 21st, 2011.