The final concert in the Louis Armstrong House Museum’s Hot Jazz/Cool Garden Summer Concert Series will be the Peter & Will Anderson Sextet on Saturday, Aug. 17. The concert also includes a complimentary sample of red beans n’ rice (Louis’s favorite recipe) & sweet tea all served up in Louis’s garden.
The Peter & Will Anderson Sextet features Peter and Will Anderson – two Juilliard-educated masters of the clarinet and saxophone who happen to be identical twins. They will be bringing along trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso (who just performed to a sold-out crowd in Louis’s garden with his EarRegulars on July 20), pianist Ehud Asherie, bassist Clovis Nicolas and drummer Phil Stewart.
Peter and Will Anderson’s expertise has made them saxophonists of choice for Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, Michael Feinstein and the New York City Ballet. Leading their own ensemble, they’ve performed at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Iridium, Symphony Space, Blues Alley, East Coast Jazz Fest, Mid-Atlantic Jazz Fest, New Jersey Jazz Society, 54 Below and countless other venues and festivals.
They have produced and performed in two highly-acclaimed off-broadway jazz shows at 59E59 Theaters in 2010 and 2012, honoring Artie Shaw and the Dorsey Brothers, the last of which sold out for 30 consecutive shows. The Andersons are featured in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and on the Grammy-winning soundtrack with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, with whom they frequently perform. Their recent CD, “Correspondence,” has been garnering rave reviews.
“They’re two young men who seem to have been implanted with a lifetime of experience at birth,” Marc Myers wrote in a review of the CD. “Now they have jazz world by the tail. It will be interesting to see how they swing it.”
The show will take place at 2 p.m. Advance tickets to the show are $18 and include a historic house tour pass good for six months. Tickets can be purchased online at LouisArmstrongHouse.org. Advance purchase is suggested; only limited tickets available at the door for $20.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum is located at 34-56 107th Street in Queens. The museum is open Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday/Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
