MELISSA ALDANA
VILLAGE VANGUARD / FEBRUARY 25 - MARCH 2
The GRAMMY Award-nominated poetess of the saxophone, Melissa Aldana is celebrated by her peers for her sound that is bright and punchy, her rhythms that are crisp, and projections of the themes and related issues that are sharp-edged, almost metallic. With a growing discography, she has earned herself an enviable reputation for taking the gift of music and paying it forward, not with lip-service but like a true artist, sculpting the shaping the changeable amorphous and immortal idiom of jazz. Melissa will be front and center with her quintet to feature her latest, most poignant repertoire. Her expectant audience can, for its part, be guaranteed to be driven delightfully mad by her music that is eloquent, bright and “switched on” with ardor and weightiness. RDG