May 1 at All Souls at Sundown:

Jeb Patton, piano

“ It was Jeb Patton who went in for youthful displays: he played a walloping “Élégie,” a transcription of Art Tatum’s version of Massenet. It felt like watching the changes in a fireworks show…Brilliant.”

—Ben Ratliff,
The New York Times

Described as both a “young phenom on piano” and an “absolute great,” Jeb Patton is known as a “player of great expression.” After graduating from Duke University with a degree in music, Jeb studied with Sir Roland Hanna and Jimmy Heath in the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, where he received the Louis Armstrong Award for composition from the ASCAP Foundation. Since graduating, Jeb has toured the US and abroad with the Heath Brothers and with Jimmy Heath's Generations Quintet. Jeb is also dedicated to classical music, including two acclaimed recent performances with the New York Philomusica. In addition, Jeb performed with the Queens College Orchestra in honor of Sir Roland Hanna and has performed extensively with Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's New Black Music Repertory Ensemble.