The famed drummer will play with the former “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” pianist and bassist Matthew Garrison at UPAC on December 15.
By Peter Aaron
On December 15 at UPAC, legendary jazz drummer and Hudson Valley resident Jack DeJohnette will wrap a three-date run of local benefit concerts celebrating his 80th birthday with a performance that pairs him with former “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” pianist Jon Batiste and bassist Matthew Garrison and features special guest Roy Wood, Jr. “Playing with Jon Batiste is a really special opportunity,” DeJohnette, who rose to prominence in the 1960s and ’70s playing with Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Bill Evans, and Charles Lloyd, told me when I interviewed him for Chronogram at the start of the concert series in September.…
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