Jesse Davis Quartet

In the organizer's words:

Jesse Davis (saxophone), Oliver Kent (piano), Mario Gonzi (drums), Martin Zenker (bass)

The Jesse Davis Quartet has toured and performed extensively throughout Europe in recent years (including a week in Switzerland last year) as well as an extended residency in South Korea with workshops and concerts to rave reviews. They recently recorded an album "Live at EBS" on Korean television, which will be released later this year. The quartet has proven to be at the forefront of mainstream and post-bop jazz and has a driving, swinging energy rarely found anywhere else in the world.

Jesse Davis (born 1965) is a former student of Ellis Marsalis at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and one of New Orleans' most respected musicians. Among

addition to leading his own group, Davis has played with such outstanding jazz musicians as Jack McDuf, Major Holley, Cecil Payne, Illinois Jacquet, Chico Hamilton, Junior Mance, Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton, Nicholas Payton and Roy Hargrove. In 1996 he went on tour with Phil Woods, Charles McPherson and Gary Bartz in the group Sax Machine.