Early Evening Jazz: JC Sanford / Dean Granros / Anthony Cox

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NO COVER 4:30pm Show Bassist Anthony Cox, guitarist Dean Granros, and trombonist JC Sanford will perform two sets of blended jazz standards and collective improvisation. Anthony Cox is an internationally renowned arranger, composer, performer, recording artist, and educator. His career has spanned over 30 years of music education, composition, and performance, encompassing an extensive list of collaborations, performances, and recordings with notable artists in the field of jazz. The list includes Sam Rivers, Joe Lovano, Geri Allen, Kenny Wheeler, Ed Blackwell, Billy Higgins, John Scofield, The NDR Big Band, Dino Saluzzi, and Henry Threadgill. Over the past 50 years, Dean Granros has developed a unique voice on the guitar. Of Granros’s playing, New York Times jazz critic Nate Chinen wrote: "It was … inarguable in its logic, and to my ears it definitely qualified as something new." As soloist, Granros explores the intersections of world music and jazz to create a tapestry of musical color and mood. After spending 16 years in New York City as a professional musician, trombonist/compose