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Randy Ingram, Drew Gress & Kush Abadey at Mezzrow (Site)
Thursday August 31, 2023, 7:30 pm
Randy Ingram / Piano
Drew Gress / Bass
Kush Abadey / Drums
Randy Ingram (pianist/composer) has been hailed as “gifted” (Jazz Times), “one of the best up-and-coming pianists” (Icon), and “formidable” (The San Francisco Chronicle). “A young pianist drawn to contemporary harmony and a sleek rhythmic sensibility… Astute, self-possessed” (The New York Times). “He’s got a crystalline sound, rich and wide open, and knows how to state a melody (with spacious chords, veering into logical solos that wander into (intriguing lands” (Jazz Weekly).Ingram was born in Anchorage, Alaska, raised in Laguna Beach, California, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. A protégé of pianists Alan Pasqua, Danilo Perez and Fred Hersch, who has named him to the vanguard of contemporary young jazz pianists, he won scholarships to the University of Southern California, where he received his Bachelors degree for Jazz Performance, and The New England Conservatory, where he received his Masters of Music. Ingram was selected by the Kennedy Center for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program and is a winner of the 2007 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award.