JD Allen Trio & Geri Allen

The pianist Geri Allen is one of the most celebrated jazz musicians of her generation. A Guggenheim Fellow and University of Pittsburgh Director of Jazz Studies, she has worked with a Who's Who of players and arrangers, from Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden to Laurie Anderson and Betty Carter. She has wrestled with Monk's music throughout her career, examining his impossible sense of time in her splendid interpretations of "'Round Midnight," for instance, and directing the Mary Lou Williams Collective, an ensemble devoted to the music of the late undersung composer, Monk confidant, and Duke professor. Allen is particularly well suited to take on the Monk canon.

TWO SETS: 7 PM & 9 PM