Wayne Escoffery Quartet

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Image courtesy of Jamboree Jazz Club

Winner in 2014 of a Grammy and the Downbeat Magazine Critics Award, Wayne Escoffery is one of the most talented saxophonists of his generation. This is hardly surprising: he has worked for Ron Carter, Abdullah Ibrahim, Al Foster, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, Wallace Roney and Herbie Hancock. However, he is most closely associated with trumpeter Tom Harrell’s quintet, with whom he has collaborated since 2006, recorded seven albums and toured half the world.

As a solo artist, he leads his own group, completed by renowned musicians including Dave Kikoski and Ugonna Okegwo, with whom he has toured internationally and released critically acclaimed albums. At the Jamboree, where he has triumphed several times, including the Mas i Mas Festival in 2021, he will present his latest album, Like Minds (Smoke, 2023), recorded with the participation of singer Gregory Porter, guitarist Mike Moreno and drummer Mark Whitfield Jr. Escoffery is also the founder of the Black Art Jazz collective, where he promotes the African-American roots of jazz, and a professor at Yale University. According to the renowned critic Neil Tesser, what we have here is a “jazz hero.”

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