Wayne Escoffery Sextet 8/17/13 New Haven Green

Closing out New Haven jazz week, local product Escoffery and company took the dwarf stage at the green. The green was well attended, they should have sprung for the real stage. Escoffery studied at ECA and has evolved into a "young lion" of jazz. Channeling Coltrane, Wayne played tenor and soprano sax. College chum Jeremy Pelt on trumpet. Unusually dressed Rachel Z on keys, laptop, and atmospherics. Orrin Evans on piano, bass, and drums rounded out the group. With a ten year catalog. Escoffery had plenty to draw on. Tune about a bay on the Red Sea was beautiful. Glad to see so many people able to come out and enjoy some straight ahead jazz on a nice August night.