Paul Jost With Joe Locke Group at Rochester International Jazz Festival at Kilbourn Hall

Paul Jost brings his smokey, lyrical scat and heartfelt interpretations to Joe Locke' kinetic show at the Xerox Rochester Festival. Paul performs regularly on the east coast and at venues in Europe and Asia. His vocals are so soulful that music journalist Buster Maxwell wrote, "He nearly single-handedly reclaims the male voice as a valid and critically important jazz instrument." Musicologist Raul da Gama has written of Paul, "...in his pristine articulation, Mr Jost dips into a colour palette that is not only most unusual, but also vast and encompassing of an impossibly wide register...he has been spoken of as a worthy successor, among male vocalists, to the legendary Mark Murphy."...

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Paul Jost brings his smokey, lyrical scat and heartfelt interpretations to Joe Locke' kinetic show at the Xerox Rochester Festival. Paul performs regularly on the east coast and at venues in Europe and Asia. His vocals are so soulful that music journalist Buster Maxwell wrote, "He nearly single-handedly reclaims the male voice as a valid and critically important jazz instrument." Musicologist Raul da Gama has written of Paul, "...in his pristine articulation, Mr Jost dips into a colour palette that is not only most unusual, but also vast and encompassing of an impossibly wide register...he has been spoken of as a worthy successor, among male vocalists, to the legendary Mark Murphy."
Paul’s vocals are so soulful that music journalist Buster Maxwell wrote, "He nearly single-handedly reclaims the male voice as a valid and critically important jazz instrument."
Hear Paul: http://www.pauljostmusic.com/music-2-columns/
Two shows: 6:00 PM & 9:00 PM
Tickets: $35 at the door, or as part of Festival Club Pass
http://www.rochesterjazz.com/venues?venue_id=37
About Paul: http://www.rochesterjazz.com/artists?artist_id=442

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