Pianist and composer Albert Marques (Barcelona, 1986) resides in Brooklyn where he’s flourished in the New York jazz scene after a successful stint in Paris. Marques plays contemporary piano with a distinctively urban, Spanish flavor. His sound is unique and profoundly percussive, a mix that has led to several jazz projects with drummers such as Leon Parker and Ari Hoenig. He has also collaborated with Afro-Latin composer Arturo O’Farrill, bassists Matt Garrison and William Parker, and flamenco singer and saxophonist Antonio Lizana. He is currently touring around the world with Freedom First, a band playing with and for activist, writer and poet Keith LaMar, who performs live from solitary confinement on death row in Ohio where he has spent three decades incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. Ben Sherman is a 16 year old tenor saxophonist from Brooklyn, New York. He was Marques’ student at the Institute for Collaborative Education and has also taken private lessons with Abraham Burton and Tim Berne. He has shared the bandstand with William Parker, Emmet Cohen, Isaiah J. Thompson, Josh Lawrence and Winard Harper. Sherman currently attends Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts On this occasion Sherman and Marques will play an intergenerational homage to the great Wayne Shorter. Come and enjoy an evening of jazz and improvisation!
Ben Sherman - tenor saxophone Albert Marques- piano