November 1 at
All Souls at Sundown:

Walter Blanding, Jr., saxophone
Marcus Printup, trumpet
Riza Hequibal, harp
Daisuke Abe, guitar
Kuriko Tsugawa, bass

and the poetry of Emily Dickinson

Walter Blanding Jr. grew up playing saxophone in Cleveland and New York. He attended LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the New School for Social Research. His albums, including Tough Young Tenors and The Olive Tree, have been highly acclaimed, and he has recorded with Cab Calloway, The Wynton Marsalis Septet, Illinois Jacquet and many others. He is also a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

“Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman remain the two greatest and most original of American poets… With Emerson, Whitman, and Henry James, [Dickinson] seems to me our highest national achievement in thought and the arts” (Harold Bloom, The Best Poems of the English Language).