Jason Yeager Quintet - Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite

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• Friday, Nov 11, 2022  6pm - 9pm

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What do Kurt Vonnegut, Thelonious Monk, Argentine and Chilean folk music, and the socio-political issues of our time all have in common? They all find their way into the music and mind of New York-based pianist-composer Jason Yeager.

On November 11th, Yeager and his quintet will celebrate the release of Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite (Sunnyside Records) at the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library as part of this year’s VonnegutFest. Tickets are pay what you can price.

Launched on the occasion of Kurt Vonnegut's centennial, Yeager's colorful and exuberant suite employs novel approaches to integrate literature with instrumental music, dialoguing with the late master of American Letters through musical onomatopoeia, text painting, and imagined scene scoring. Featuring Yeager's adventurous and lyrical writing, ranging from straight-ahead to Latin and modern jazz, the album features some of today's most dynamic improviser-performers, including Miguel Zenón, Lucas Pino, Yuhan Su, Jay Sawyer, and Alphonso Horne, among others. In his fall preview for WRTI, noted jazz writer and former New York Times critic Nate Chinen calls Jason's new album "a spirited tribute that engages in sneaky ways with the form of Vonnegut’s texts." The son of a proud Hoosier, Jason’s family and the Vonneguts were once in business together, in the mid-century architectural firm “Vonnegut, Wright, & Yeager.” At 6 p.m., there will be a brief talk about the decade long process to create the album with a question-and-answer session. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. and will be followed by a reception.

Jason Yeager - Piano and Compositions

John Raymond - Trumpet

Lucas Pino - Woodwinds

Michael O'Brien - Bass

Jay Sawyer - Drums