Litchfield Jazz Presents: Kris Allen Quartet – Poli Club Friday November 15

Poli Club @ The Palace Theater Waterbury, CT - November 15 Shows at 7 & 9

Kris Allen is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader and recording artist. His latest release, June (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) received a 4-1/2 Star Review from Downbeat Magazine. This 2022 release builds on Allen’s growing body of original work for an evolving jazz quartet. Of Kris’s work, the New York City Jazz Record said: “Writing strong compositions for a simpatico quartet with its own sound and identity, Kris Allen goes from strength to strength.”

Kris Allen has performed and/or recorded with Illinois Jacquet, Gerald Wilson, Andy Gonzales, Jimmy Greene, Helen Sung, Winard Harper, the Mingus Dynasty, Avery Sharpe, Rogerio Boccato, Andy Jaffe, Kendrick Oliver’s New Life Orchestra, Noah Baerman, the Curtis Brothers and Mario Pavone among others. He has also collaborated with dancers, poets, and visual artists.

Kris’s work has received many awards and commissions, including a MacDowell Artist’s Colony fellowship and a Connecticut Office of the Arts fellowship. He is an Artist-in-Residence at Williams College and a faculty member at Litchfield Jazz Camp. He tours as the leader of his own quartet and as a member of the collaboratively-led “Triangle Offense” trio. Kris is a Vandoren Artist and plays Vandoren mouthpieces, reeds and ligatures exclusively. 

For this Litchfield Jazz Presents performance at the Poli Club, Kris is joined by longtime musical co-conspirators:

Zaccai Curtis on piano, Matt Dwonszyk on bass and Jonathan Barber on drums. Their performance features brand-new, unrecorded compositions and selections from the band’s three albums. 

For tickets visit https://www.palacetheaterct.org/shows-and-events/offstage-poli-club/jazz-kris-allen-trio