Coming to All Souls at Sundown
October 14th at 6 p.m.:

Jon Gordon , alto saxophone
Aaron Goldberg, piano • Joe Martin, bass

“One of the greatest alto players ever.”

— Legendary saxophonist Phil Woods

“Mr. Gordon is a smart, self-assured young jazz alto saxophonist, a wizard in the post-bop language.”

— Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

Since attending the Manhattan School of Music in the late 1980s, saxophonist Jon Gordon has performed with Red Rodney, Roy Eldridge, Mel Lewis, Doc Cheatham, Clark Terry, Benny Carter, Phil Woods, T.S. Monk, The Vanguard Orchestra, Bill Charlap, Harry Connick Jr. and the N.Y. Pops Orchestra, among many others. Jon also appears regularly as a member of the Jazz Nativity, and he has led his own groups at various European, Canadian and U.S. jazz festivals and clubs. Among several awards, in November 2006 Gordon won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition.

Featuring The Poetry of Matthew Arnold

A major poet and the principal literary critic of his generation, Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) invited readers in “an age of spiritual discomfort” to seek the best in human experience and possibility.