All Souls at Sundown
November 4th at 6 p.m.

Gerald Clayton, piano
Ben Williams, bass

"...Gerald Clayton...came to destroy: his playing had huge, authoritative presence, an Oscar Peterson-like style, highly controlled touch and dynamics and rhapsodic, episodic soloing. (The audience broke into applause during his solo.)”

— Ben Ratliff,
The New York Times

“ At a time when jazz piano prodigies are moving into the spotlight around the world…, Clayton is showing all the signs of becoming one of the most significant young jazz artists to emerge in the Southland in recent years.”

— Don Heckman,
The Los Angeles Times

Featuring The Poetry of Philip Levine

“ A great American poet” (recipient of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets), Philip Levine is engaged in the project “of catching the rhythm that can make sense and beauty of a life coming at us in pieces, like parts on an assembly line” (Terrance Rafferty, The New York Times).