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Wed, Apr 22
|Sam First
Gerald Clayton Trio with Joe Sanders & Justin Brown
Over the past two decades, pianist, composer, and seven-time Grammy nominee Gerald Clayton has built a career defined by versatility and depth. Clayton reunites his trio with Joe Sanders and Justin Brown for two unforgettable nights of musical interplay.
Apr 22, 2026, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Sam First, 6171 W Century Blvd #180, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
Gerald Clayton (piano), Joe Sanders (bass), Justin Brown (drums)
Over the past two decades, pianist, composer, and seven-time Grammy nominee Gerald Clayton has built a career defined by versatility and depth. As a bandleader, he’s created music that ranges from the intimate reflections of Bells on Sand to the electrifying immediacy of Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard. As a collaborator with artists like Roy Hargrove, Charles Lloyd, John Scofield, Terri Lyne Carrington, Bill Frisell and Diana Krall, he’s earned a reputation for musicianship that is at once grounded and adventurous — profoundly attentive, open, and unafraid to take risks onstage.
His latest Blue Note release, Ones & Twos, captures a balance of curiosity and groove. Using a reimagined jazz-quintet setup, Clayton nods to the inventiveness of hip-hop while maintaining the organic spontaneity of live performance. The album meditates on coexistence — on how two independent voices can occupy the same…
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