ENJOY THE 2022 DUCK CREEK CONCERT SERIES
FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME!

JUNE 4: SAVANNAH HARRIS TRIO
SAVANNAH HARRIS - DRUMS, OR BAREKET - BASS, JEREMY CORREN - PIANO
“She’s all over the jazz, avant-garde, and crossover scenes, playing gigs with everyone from stately ambassadors like Kenny Barron to the fierce hip-hop collective Standing on the Corner.” - Modern Drummer

JUNE 19: IMMANUEL WILKINS QUARTET (CLIP ONLY - NOT FULL CONCERT)
IMMANUEL WILKINS - ALTO SAX, ADAM O’FARRILL - TRUMPET, EMMANUEL MICHEL - GUITAR, SHAKOOR SANDER - PERCUSSION, BASS
Wilkins has said that with “The 7th Hand,” he was looking for nothing less than spiritual transmission — to make himself and the quartet into a “vessel” for the divine, in the way of a Mahalia Jackson, or a John or Alice Coltrane…. The quartet unspools its finely woven, vigilant group sound into something wide open, achieving a kind of escape. - The New York Times, 2/1/22

JUNE 26: HANNAH MARKS QUARTET: JAZZ EDUCATION FAMILY CONCERT
HANNAH MARKS - DOUBLE BASS, NORA STANLEY - ALTO SAX, LEX KORTEN - PIANO, ELIZA SALEM - DRUMS
This program will take families and friends through an interactive and educational performance for kids and their families! The narrated concert will introduce families to the work of artists ranging from Ella Fitzgerald to Ornette Coleman!
Hannah Marks is a bassist, bandleader, composer, and educator living in New York City. As a bandleader, she has performed at several major festivals, including the Detroit Jazz Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Iowa City Jazz Festival, and Indy Jazz Festival. Her current groups as a leader are Hannah Marks: Outsider, Outlier, a genre-defying, lyric-based project, and the Hannah Marks Quartet. She is on faculty at The Spence School and is a curator for Green Lung Studio in Brooklyn.

THIS SERIES WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, ADMINISTERED BY THE HUNTINGTON ARTS COUNCIL.

JULY 30: DOUBLE BILL, BILL MORRISON - FILM, BILL FRISELL - GUITAR
Filmmaker Bill Morrison (The Village Detective: a song cycle, Dawson City: Frozen Time) and composer/guitarist Bill Frisell present a live night of experimentation and improvisation, with visual sources including short films, newsreels, loops, and cat cam videos. This program was presented at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem last December. “Frisell and Morrison met over 30 years ago when they were both working at the Village Vanguard in the early 1990s… Their friendship and collaboration has produced a number of films and live performances over the years, including The Film of Her, The Mesmerist, The Great Flood, and last August’s performance at The Tank Center for Sonic Arts in Rangely CO.”
This program was generously funded by a grant from the Kate W Cassidy Foundation.

AUGUST 6: MIRIAM ELHAJLI TRIO
MIRIAM ELHAJLI - VOCALS/GUITAR, MATT MUNTZ - BASS, PABLO O’CONNELL - OBOE/GUITAR
Miriam Elhajli is a folk singer, composer-improviser, and musicologist whose work is influenced by the rich musical traditions of her Venezuelan, Moroccan and North American heritage. Elhajli currently lives in New York City where she performs and works as a researcher at The Association for Cultural Equity founded by Alan Lomax. Elhajli will perform songs from her sophomore album "The Uncertainty of Signs" which was released on 2/22/22. 
“Eclectic, with a soaring voice” – New York Music Daily
“A haunting voice” – The New York Times

AUGUST 13: DAVID LEON: BIRD’S EYE
DAVID LEON - COMPOSER AND WOODWINDS, DOYEON KIM - GAYAGEUM, LESLEY MOK - DRUMS & PERCUSSION
Bird’s Eye is the latest project from saxophonist and composer David Leon with Doyeon Kim on gayageum and Lesley Mok on drumset & percussion. Inspired by the folkloric musics of Cuba and Korea, the compositions weave rigorous ensemble writing and guided improvisation to investigate collectivity.

AUGUST 20: HANNAH MARKS QUARTET: JAZZ EDUCATION FAMILY CONCERT
HANNAH MARKS - DOUBLE BASS, MORGAN GUERIN - SAXOPHONE, LEX KORTEN - PIANO, MATT WILSON - DRUMS
This is the second of two Jazz Education concerts at Duck Creek led by Hannah Marks, a bassist, bandleader, composer, and educator living in New York City.

THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, ADMINISTERED BY THE HUNTINGTON ARTS COUNCIL!

SEPTEMBER 18: CAROLINE DAVIS QUARTET, 5-7 PM
CAROLINE DAVIS - SAXOPHONE, JULIAN SHORE - PIANO, CHRIS TORDINI - BASS, KATE GENTILE - DRUMS



We met Davis when she created an at home concert for our Duck Creek Covid Commissions at the height of the pandemic in Spring of 2020. Her compositional practice integrates music with the cognitive sciences, anatomical structures, and the brain, influenced by her Ph.D in Music Cognition. Davis is an advocate for social justice in the realm of gender (developed in a co-taught Jazz & Gender course at The New School) as well as in the abolitionist movement (Justice for Keith Lamar). Her recent albums include My Tree’s Where The Grace Is, and Portals: Volume 1.

CAROLINE DAVIS: THE GENDER CONVERSATION, 4 PM
Through guided conversation and listening, we will discuss the role of gender throughout the history of Black American Music and Jazz. Intersectionality will be our guiding force, and through this lens, we will collectively design ways to learn about and listen to the unsung figures of the music.Visit our EVENTS page to view this program!

SEPTEMBER 24: THUMBSCREW (video to come)
MARY HALVORSON - GUITAR, TOMAS FUJIWARA - DRUMS, MICHAEL FORMANEK - BASS
This trio came about by accident, after bassist Michael Formanek subbed in a band including guitarist Mary Halvorson (2019 MacArthur Fellowship Awardee) and drummer Tomas Fujiwara. Something special happened among them right away, so they formed a trio, a co-operative in the truest sense. They play originals by all hands, compositions whose rhythms may surge or lag or veer sideways according to their own internal logic.