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| Tyrone Birkett presents Sonic Sanctuary II : The Luminous Darkness @ The Jazz Gallery Tuesday April 22nd, 7pm Tyrone Birkett presents Sonic Sanctuary II : The Luminous Darkness is a music experience countering chaos and despair with revival, joy and resilience. A safe gathering place where we hear the freedom of jazz improvisation and fervent Black church sonics, with solace and healing in the community. The Jazz Gallery 1160 Broadway entrance on Broadway Tuesday April 22nd, 7pm $20 Ticket link (tickets not available on the Jazz Gallery website) - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1257184465579?aff=oddtdtcreator Tyrone Birkett | Sanctuary Tyrone Birkett - saxophone/composer Paula Ralph Birkett - vocals Jon Thomas - piano/organ Marcos Robinson - electric guitar Caylen Bryant - electric bass Camille Gainer Jones - drums Tyrone Birkett is a saxophonist, composer, producer, and speaker with extensive experience partnering art and social consciousness as an "artist for humanity". Focused on creating music that affirms the good and the beautiful, in spite of what we see in our world. As the conceptualist, composer and musical director of the projects Tyrone Birkett | Emancipation and Tyrone Birkett | Sanctuary, he has created Postmodern Spirituals, a project re-imagines the Negro Spiritual and synthesizes it with jazz language, black church music, and soul music. Along with original compositions. Fronted by his saxophone and the declarative vocals of his wife, Paula Ralph Birkett, lyric and melody are enveloped in a sonic environment of intriguing harmonies, funk and jazz rhythmic underpinnings, shaped by painstakingly constructed arrangements with virtuosic & soulful improvisation. The music has been presented at venues such as The Apollo Theater, The Greene Space, Blue Note Jazz Club, Symphony Space. Chris Spector – Midwest Record For all our talk about civil rights jazz and church basement jazz, here's a cat that's taken up the call to arms with modern church basement jazz updating the concepts of freedom songs and Negro spirituals for today. A jazz vet of styles and times, sax man Birkett colors wildly outside the lines for a unique jazz set that keeps you guessing as to what's coming next… Hard hitting stuff that doesn't need Western Union to send it's message. Brenda Nelson-Strauss – Black Grooves - Indiana University Archives of African American Music and Culture Though Birkett may not be a familiar name in jazz circles, [he] ... is highly recommended for [his] excellent musicianship, creative compositions, and thematic material. This is soul-jazz, gospel-jazz, and contemporary jazz in a harmonious bounty of spirituality and empowerment. write your comments about the article :: © 2025 Jazz News :: home page |