Geri Allen and Mary Lou Williams were two of the most influential artists and creative forces in jazz.

In their respective eras, each was a towering pianist, groundbreaking composer, and innovator with bold conceptions of what jazz could be. Allen was a passionate champion of the supremely influential Williams, and a litany of jazz greats have been champions of Allen. Among them is NEA Jazz Master and four-time Grammy-winning drummer, composer, and producer Terri Lyne Carrington, a jazz powerhouse and force of nature who worked closely with and revered Allen and leads thisJazz in Julycelebration. Joining Carrington are Vanisha Gould — a transfixing jazz vocalist and storyteller and rising star with one foot in jazz tradition and the other in her own extraordinary original music — and the phenomenal Nicole Glover — a member of Christian McBride’s Ursa Major, supergroup Artemis, and much more — on tenor sax. Along with Aaron Diehl – himself an impassioned champion of Williams – and acclaimed bassist Yusushi Nakamura, Carrington’s co-curator of the evening, it’s a sure-to-be-fabulous celebration of two pioneering jazz icons.

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