The Joe Alterman Trio with special guest, tenor sax giant Houston Person, performs on Sunday, April 20 at Birdland at 5:30 PM celebrating their new album, Brisket for Breakfast. The band features pianist Alterman with bassist Kevin Smith and drummer Justin Chesarek on this lively set of ballads and blues.
Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, Alterman wasn’t raised with the sounds of jazz in his ears. Though he’d quickly come to love the full panoply of jazz styles and become an acclaimed torchbearer for the music’s tradition, Alterman’s first musical passions were bluegrass and the blues. So when he did start exploring the jazz pantheon, it wasn’t bebop modernists like Bill Evans that lured him in – it was blues-rooted greats like Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Les McCann—and Person.
Brisket for Breakfast, a joyous live recording, lives up to the down-home bonhomie and southern-fried soul suggested by its title, with exuberant, soul jazz-inspired interpretations of familiar standards, ballads and blues.
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Birdland is located at 315 W. 44th St., NYC
