The good folks at the Creative Sanctuary are continuing Homage to the Message, a chronological celebration of various satellite members of the Jazz Messengers. This installment is all about the tunes of trumpeter and composer Lee Morgan — gone too soon at the age of 33, when his girlfriend shot him between sets at an East Village club in the late hours of a New York winter’s night. Thankfully, his music lives on, even if tonight’s performance will be sans a trumpeter. That’s just fine, tromboner James Zeller, bassist Danny Gaon, tenor sax player Tree, pianist Matthew Seno and drummer Ramsey Isaacs are guaranteed to hold it down. The show’s at 7 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse and there’s a sliding scale cover of $10-$30 to keep the musicians happy.
This article appears in Global Solidarity at the Mouth of the Klamath.