Stefon Harris and Blackout
Saturday, January 22, 2010; 8:00 PM
Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

Vibraphonist Stefon Harris is heralded as “one of the most important young artists in jazz” by The Los Angeles Times. Harris’ passionate artistry, energetic stage presence and astonishing virtuosity have propelled him into the forefront of the current jazz scene.

Harris' latest CD Urbanus features Blackout, a scintillating ensemble as versed in modern jazz as it is in the rhythms, melodies and soundscapes of R&B, pop, hip-hop and funk.

“Blackout is a band of serious practitioners of the benevolent dark arts, and it’s reintroducing urban culture into the jazz tradition. Jazz needs more signifiers of streetwise indirection like this.” – NPR Music

“His music needs no labels like ‘postmodern’ or ‘cutting edge’. It is Stefon Harris music, as Charles Mingus, he insisted, was Mingus music.” - Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times Magazine



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The jazz series also includes Tierney Sutton Band, Anat Cohen, Lionel Loueke, Geri Allen, and the supergroup WATTS with Jeff "Tain" Watts, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride and David Sanchez.