Appearing Soon:

 

July 3 Watercolor Café with Greg McKenzie and Dwayne “Cook” Broadnax – Larchmont, NY www.watercolorcafe.net

 

 

 

July 6 – Local 269 with Steve Swell, Rob Brown, Michael T.A. Thompson, Chris Forbes – NYC

 

 

 

July 17 – 5C Café with Basscentric – NYC

 

 

 

July 25 – Cleopatra’s Needle with Don Slatoff – NYC

 

 

 

July 26 – Governors Island with Mossa Bildner Harvest Of My Tongue – Governors Island, NY

 

 

 

July 30 - Connetquot Public Library with Arlette Beauchamps Jazz Duo -Connetquot , NY

 

 

 

August 6 – performance with the Fred Woodard Trio Fred Woodard – guitar, Yoron Israel - drums – Cedar Rapids, Iowa

 

 

 

August 15 – Local 269 with Mossa Bildner – NYC

 

 

 

August 18 – Iridium Jazz Club with JC Hopkins Biggish Band - NYC

 

 

 

September 25 – Northshore Public Library with Zig Zag – Long Island, NY http://www.alexanderawu.com/zigzag.html

 

 

 

October 16 – 24 European tour with Bobby Few, Sabir Mateen and Klaus Kugel

 

 

 

October 25 - tentative tour with Lenore Raphael in France and England

 

 

 

November 15 - South Hampton Public Library with the Zig Zag Quartet – South Hampton, L.I.

 

 

2010

 

Tentative European tour and CD release with Ullman/Swell 4-tet featuring Barry Altschul

 

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT JIMMY SCOTT AND THE JAZZ EXPRESSIONS:

The Jazz Expressions, led by Bassist Hilliard Greene, may be the best supporting group currently backing a singer.

---Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe

 

The Jazz Expressions, led by inventive bassist Hilliard Greene…

---John Griffin, The Montreal Gazette

 

Marvelously empathetic backuptrio. . . Hilliard Greene, simply one of the best bassists I have ever heard with a singer, can sound like a flamenco guitar one moment and a wailing horn the next.

---Misha Berson, Seattle Times

 

The New York-based trio called The Jazz Expressions opened with high-octanebop. . . Their richly textural, three-way musical conversations…

---Joseph Blake, Times Colonist, Victoria