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Northampton Jazz Workshop w/ Patience Higgins at The Drake

  • The Drake 44 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA, 01002 United States (map)

FREE EVENT
Doors open early at 5pm
Featured set at 7:30pm

Jam session to follow, bring your instrument!!

Patience Higgins, from Greenville, South Carolina, is a multi-reed player who plays all the Saxophones, Flutes, Clarinets, Oboe, and English Horn.
Under the direction of Mercer Ellington and now Paul Ellington, has been a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra for the last twenty years. He has also toured and recorded with Frank Foster and Count Basie Orchestra, Savion Glover, Aretha Franklin, Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Muhal Richard Abrams, Archie Shepp, Sam Rivers, Barry Harris, Charles Tolliver, Bobby Watson & Tailor Made, David Murray, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Scott, Paquito D’Rivera, Nicolas Payton, Rodney Kendrick, Yoko Ono, Hamiett Bluiett, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Pointer Sisters, Don Byron, Vanessa Roubin, Cleo Lane and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet.

Earlier Event: July 3
Summer Jazz in Amity St. Courtyard
Later Event: July 6
Francisco, el Hombre at The Drake