Something Else! featuring Vincent Herring

At this event, the Vilar Mainstage will transform into a club-like setting where the artists and audience members will be on-stage, together. Attendees can choose theater-style General Admission Seats or Reserved Seating at 2-top tables.

Vincent Herring, alto saxophone
Wayne Escofferey, tenor saxophone
Freddie Hendrix, trumpet
Paul Bollenback, guitar
Dave Kikoski, piano
Essiet Essiet, bass
Lewis Nash, drums

When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the generation that grew up in that era, soul jazz is the soundtrack of their lives – not to mention an absolute blast to play.

The new supergroup Something Else! brings together a superb septet that matches impeccable virtuosity with a bottomless feel for this music. Spearheaded by alto saxophone great Vincent Herring, the band’s debut release features trumpeter Freddie Hendrix, tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, guitarist Paul Bollenback, pianist David Kikoski, bassist Essiet Essiet, and drummer Lewis Nash.

“This project represents the music that we love, music that just feels great,” Herring says. “Everybody in the band grew up on soul jazz, where the feeling was paramount. The music of the day was soul and R&B – that’s what my parents played on the stereo when they were in the car or when they would have gatherings. So I think it’s a feeling that we were all craving in our own music.”