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Cyrus Chestnut Celebrates Mlk Day Live Streaming Concert at An Die Musik Live
Courtesy of Erin Connelly | Posted on January 8, 2021
Where
An Die Musik Live
409 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
Map
410-385-2638
When
Mon, January 18, 2021
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Cyrus Chestnut
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Cyrus Chestnut will perform his signature solo jazz piano series to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Day
Born in 1963 in Baltimore, jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut grew up in a home filled with the sounds of gospel music that his church-going parents played, along with jazz records by artists such as Thelonius Monk and Jimmy Smith. To this day, Chestnut’s ties to gospel music remain constant.
After graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Chestnut worked with jazz vocalist Jon Hendricks, trumpeter Terrence Blanchard, and saxophonist Donald before joining jazz legend Wynton Marsalis. Chestnut’s recordings include Dark Before the Dawn (1994), which debuted in the sixth spot on the Billboard jazz charts; Earth Stories (1995), for which he composed nine of the CD’s eleven tracks; a solo piano album, Blessed Quietness: Collection of Hymns, Spirituals, and Carols (1996); Cyrus Chestnut (1998); Soul Food (2001), a blend of jazz, classical, gospel, and R&B; and You Are My Sunshine (2003)....