Len Pierro Quintet – Music of Stan Getz and Sonny Rollins

Stan Getz and Sonny Rollins took the tenor saxophone in different directions, Getz toward a light, singing tone and Rollins toward muscular, thematic improvising, and Len Pierro's program, titled "Beyond Language," draws on both. A Pennsylvania-born saxophonist, woodwind player, pianist, arranger and composer, Pierro now plays on Florida's west coast with the Venice Saxophone Quartet, his own jazz trio and a big band, and his recordings include The Third Quarter and As I Was Saying. He leads his group for the Jazz Club of Sarasota in the John C. Court Cabaret on Florida Studio Theatre's First Street campus.