The Creative Sanctuary’s fine cadre of jazz musicians continues rolling along with their excellent series celebrating the various satellite musicians associated with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s gig at 7 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse is a celebration of tenor sax player Benny Golson, whose brief stint with the Messengers produced the 1958 hard bop classic Moanin’. As before, the assembled team will include tromboner James Zeller, pianist Matthew Seno, Tree on sax, bassist Danny Gaon, and drummer Ramsey Isaacs filling in on the sticks for Mr. Blakey himself, who moved onto another plane of existence 35 years ago this October. Tickets are a sliding scale of $10-$30, so come on down and pay what you can.
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