Pianist Gerald Clayton Makes Blue Note Debut With Star-Studded Quintet via ‘Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard’

Joining famed jazz pianist and LACHSA alumni Gerald Clayton are a formidable front line of altoist Logan Richardson and tenorist Walter Smith III and the rhythm tandem of bassist Joe Sanders and drummer Marcus Gilmore, both fellow LACHSA alumni, that perform on five of the seven tunes – four Clayton originals and the finale, Billy Strayhorn’s “Take the Coltrane.” Bud Powell’s “Celia” and the