February 12 at All Souls at Sundown:

Wycliffe Gordon, trombone

Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon enjoys an extraordinarily diverse career as performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator. A frequent performer with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Gordon leads his own quintet as well.

"Some of the best musicians make instruments seem small in their hands. The trombonist Wycliffe Gordon is one of those. With suchextraordinary deftness, he wins over the audience completely. Gordon's manipulations of sound in his careful improvisations are as exciting as it gets."

— The New York Times

"Gordon leads his ensemble through soulful, rip-roaring passages that are guaranteed to produce goosebumps."

— L.A. Jazz

The Art of the Sonnet

Born in the small, sunlit courts of Italy, the 14-line sonnet reached its apotheosis in Shakespeare and Browning. Lyrical, musical, memorable, and brief, the sonnet suits our world. It is the ideal form to chronicle human yearning.