Winter Blues Jazz Fest: Art of Jazz
January 18 @ 12:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Get your tickets for Art of Jazz with Tony Mata Trio followed by Justin Kauflin!
The four-day Winter Blues Jazz Fest is back for its 11th year presented by CultureFix and City of Williamsburg! The festival will be held January 17 – 20. Tickets at https://www.winterbluesjazzfest.com
Art of Jazz:
Jazz pianist Justin Kauflin is an award-winning musician. As leader, player, composer, and producer, he has released 10 recordings to date and collaborated on more than 30 albums. For 10 years, he has worked and toured under the management of Quincy Jones and Quincy Jones Productions. In addition, he has scored a number of short films and feature-length documentaries. Justin is featured in, as well as composed the film score for, the Academy Award short-listed documentary, Keep On Keepin’ On, about his mentor, the late legendary jazz trumpeter, Clark Terry. He recently joined the jazz faculty at the Governor’s School for the Arts, a magnet-level performing arts school where he was a student from 2000 to 2004, helping to develop a new generation of young talented musicians in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Justin continues to tour, with upcoming performances in Canada, Denmark and India, and will be performing in a number of tribute concerts for Oscar Peterson’s Centennial Celebration. More info
Tony Mata is known for his thoughtful interpretations of the jazz standards that span from the giants of Bebop to the classics from the Great American Songbook (widely accepted as the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century). For 15 years now, he has been based in Williamsburg, but he splits his performances between Virginia and New York City.
Prior to this event Tony Mata will be instructing a free Jazz Improvisation Workshop at 10 am. The workshop is free but you will need to reserve your spot. More info
