Immanuel Wilkins Quartet
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Monday, Feb 21, 2022 7pm
Location
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320 Cedar St
Details
Immanuel Wilkins is a saxophonist, composer, educator, and bandleader from the greater Philadelphia area. While growing up, Wilkins honed his skills in the church and studied in programs dedicated to teaching jazz music like the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts. After moving to New York in 2015, he proceeded to earn his bachelor’s degree in Music at Juilliard (studying with the saxophonists Bruce Williams and the late, great Joe Temperley) while simultaneously establishing himself as an in-demand side musician, touring in Japan, Europe, South America, The United Arab Emirates, and United States, and working/recording with artists like Jason Moran, the Count Basie Orchestra, Delfeayo Marsalis, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Gerald Clayton, Gretchen Parlato, Lalah Hathaway, Solange Knowles, Bob Dylan, and Wynton Marsalis to name just a few. It was also during this same period that he formed his quartet featuring his long-time bandmates Micah Thomas on piano, Daryl Johns on bass, and Kweku Sumbry on drums.
