Jazz Beat: Tyrone Clark, at the Blue Room
We give a lot of love to Kansas City’s jazz musicians, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t also proud of our exceptional composers. Take, for example, bassist Tyrone Clark. The opening track of his new album, Music in the Grain, densely layers piano, bass, drums and guitar with Bobby Watson’s alto sax. The result is a fun, intelligent homage to saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen, and Clark executes it with aplomb. Thursday night, Clark celebrates Music in the Grain with a release show at the Blue Room. He’s joined by Watson on sax; Joe Cartwright on piano; Charles Gatschet on guitar; Michael Warren on drums; and a special guest, singer Melena Rose Brown.
