BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont Jazz Center kicks off 2014 with a Jan. 18 concert featuring guitarist Freddie Bryant's Kaleidoscope Quartet, a band featuring grooves from around the world. This show is an annual tribute to VJC founder Attila Zoller.
Bryant is touring with the same core group he used on his acclaimed 2011 recording, “Live Grooves … Epic Tales”: Patrice Blanchard on electric bass, Willard Dyson on drums, and Tim Armacost on tenor sax.
Bryant taught guitar at the VJC Summer Workshop, tours internationally, has worked with Tom Harrell, Eliana Elias, and the Mingus Big Band, was a United Nations Jazz ambassador, and teaches at Berklee College of Music and Holland's Prins Claus Conservatorium.