over five decades of performance, composition, and teaching, pianist African music and culture, and through his music, translating that connection to western audiences. "Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk, as well as the richest most inventive beat," notes jazz critic Stanley Crouch, "but studious and inspired intelligence..
.an intelligence that is creating a fresh synthesis of African elements with jazz technique." With his African Rhythms ensemble, 80-year-old Weston will bring his inspire and inform.
in Brooklyn and growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, his African roots. His father grew up in Panama but his family was from Jamaica, where education was highly valued, and young Randy was surrounded by a love of African history and culture. He notes that beautiful people, and we have a great heritage.
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