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Nashville Jazz Workshop presents The Contemporary Jazz Series with Greg Bryant

Presented by Nashville Jazz Workshop at Nashville Jazz Workshop

March 6, 2011

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The next installment of the Contemporary Jazz Series at the NJW Jazz Cave is Sunday, March 6 at 7:00pm and features the Greg Bryant Expansion, with Greg Bryant (bass), Cord Martin (sax), James DaSilva (guitar), and D.D. Holt (drums).

Born in Nashville, Greg Bryant became aware of music at an early age and gravitated towards the sounds of jazz, Blues, and R&B - being drawn to artists like Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, Miles Davis, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, and James Brown. He studied piano as a child, did hip-hop as a teenager, and began playing bass in college in 1998. Bryant co-led and formed The Human Sound and the Cornerstone Jazz Trio. These musical units encouraged and provided the outlet for his musical discovery. While living in the Washington DC area for a time, participation in jazz club HR-57s jam sessions ignited the desire and passion in him to form his own group.

In 2004, Greg Bryant moved back to Nashville and formed his own quintet with area players including Chris West (sax), Reagan Mitchell (sax), Jason Hoffheins (drums) and Brian Mesko (guitar.) Their weekly performances displayed their original compositions and conceptions of standards.

In 2008, Greg began devoting his time to a new project ranging from quartet to sextet size called the Greg Bryant Expansion. About the series: The Contemporary Jazz Series, hosted by Rahsaan Barber, is designed to present new, original, and cutting edge jazz that may not have been heard before in the Jazz Cave. Describing "contemporary jazz," series host Rahsaan Barber explained that "just as the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie was influenced by musicians’ and audiences’ affinities for the blues of Beale Street and the bright lights of Broadway, so it is with contemporary jazz, which draws much influence from more modern strains of American music -- including funk, gospel, hip hop -- and more international 'cargo,' including Indian ragas, Cuban descargas and European classical music." The Nashville Jazz Workshop is located in the Neuhoff Complex at the end of Monroe Street in East Germantown.