A Place for Jazz-The Warren Wolf/Joe Locke Quartet

The Warren Wolf and Joe Locke Quartet bring these masters of percussion together for an unforgettable evening of dialogue in the language of piano and vibraphone, along with Blake Meister on bass and Eric Kennedy on drums. Warren Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore, MD. From the young age of three years old, Warren has been trained on the vibraphone/marimba, drums, and piano. Under the guidance of his father, Warren Wolf Sr., Warren aquired a deep background in all genres of music. He has studied the classical composers and the legends of ragtime, as well as jazz artists and composers such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Wynton Marsalis and many others. Warren Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore, MD. From the young age of three years old, Warren has been trained on the vibraphone/marimba, drums, and piano. He has studied the classical composers and the legends of ragtime, as well as jazz artists and composers such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Wynton Marsalis and many others. During his time at Berklee, Warren studied with Caribbean jazz vibraphonist Dave Samuels, with vibist Ed Saindon, and began to explore deeper into jazz. Some of the musicians who helped Warren reach his musical goal during this time were Jeremy Pelt, John Lamkin, Darren Barrett, Wayne Escoffery, Richard Johnson, Kendrick Scott, Walter Smith, Jason Palmer, Rashawn Ross and many others. Through them, Warren became an active performer around the Boston area, gigging frequently on the vibraphone, drums and piano. Warren is currently the drummer of choice for alto saxophonist Tia Fuller, who tours with internationally renowned pop star Beyonce Knowles. Warren is also a member of the Donal Fox Group, which includes bassist John Lockwood and drummers Dafnis Prieto and Terri Lyne Carrington. Also, he tours and performs with Bobby Watson’s “Live and Learn” Sextet, Karriem Riggins “Virtuoso Experience” and Christian McBride & “Inside Straight”. Warren has traveled the world with these three groups. Joe Locke is long known as a soloist capable of stunning physical power and broad emotional range, and as the composer, bandleader and conceptualist that he is considered today. This is in no small part due to his solo projects since the beginning of the 2000s, notably Four Walls of Freedom​​, a 6-movement suite featuring the late tenor saxophonist Bob Berg; Live in Seattle​ (Origin) by The Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer Group, which won the 2006 EarShot award for Concert of the Year; and his eloquent and vibrant quartet Force Of​ Four​ (Origin). In 2011, Joe joined the Motéma label for four intrinsically different albums bearing witness to his immense stylistic versatility and ability to create artistic depth in a variety of contexts, starting with After Signing​, the long-awaited follow-up studio album of Live in Seattle​​. 2012 also saw the release of Joe Locke’s first ever symphonic project, Wish Upon A Star​, featuring Locke’s quartet with the Lincoln (NE) Symphony Orchestra and the Jazz Radio Charts’ #1 Blues & Ballads album Lay Down My Heart​ in 2013. In 2015, Locke released Love Is a Pendulum, a suite based on a poem by Barbara Sfraga; it’s already being hailed the most important work of his career. Locke’s latest album, Subtle Disguise​ (2018) is being celebrated “a crowning achievement from a certified vibraphone master” by Jazziz Magazine ​​and means very much a happy continuation of his search to unite his love of composition with the connective qualities of melody and groove. Locke is a six-time recipient of the Jazz Journalists Association’s “Mallet Instrumentalist of the Year” Award and has won numerous further awards and polls. In 2016 he was honored with the induction into the Music Hall of Fame of his hometown Rochester, NY. He is an active clinician and educator in the United States and in Europe and holds the title of Honorary Associate of London’s Royal Academy of Music (Hon ARAM) since 2013.

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