Concert 4: ELLINGTON & MONK | The Buhr Quartet & Friends
Words by Toni Morrison
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 7:30pm • Muriel Richardson Auditorium, Winnipeg Art Gallery
The Buhr Quartet performs the music of 20th-century master composers Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, garnished with some spoken word texts by Toni Morrison.
(Toni Morrison is the recipient of both the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Literature; the quartet is setting some texts from her novel JAZZ.)
The Buhr Quartet:
Paul Balcain, sax/vocals
Glenn Buhr, acoustic guitar/piano/vocals
Gilles Fournier, bass/vocals
Rob Siwik, drums
with guest:
Margaret Sweatman, vocals/spoken texts
The Buhr Quartet performs the music of 20th-century master composers Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, garnished with some spoken word texts by Toni Morrison.
(Toni Morrison is the recipient of both the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Literature; the quartet is setting some texts from her novel JAZZ.)
The Buhr Quartet:
Paul Balcain, sax/vocals
Glenn Buhr, acoustic guitar/piano/vocals
Gilles Fournier, bass/vocals
Rob Siwik, drums
with guest:
Margaret Sweatman, vocals/spoken texts
Paul Balcain, sax/vocals
Glenn Buhr, acoustic guitar/piano/vocals
Gilles Fournier, bass/vocals
Rob Siwik, drums
with guest:
Margaret Sweatman, vocals/spoken texts
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