Named by both ArtsATL and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as one of the best things to happen on the jazz scene in 2024, Jazz at All Saints’ was chosen for Atlanta Magazine’s Best of Atlanta in 2025! We can't wait for you to join us for this upcoming season!
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Jazz at All Saints’ is overjoyed with its enthusiastic reception and to be presenting now our third season. As we celebrate our 250th Anniversary of this nation, what could be more emblematic than this music we call jazz. From the voices of Ella, Billie, and Sarah, through Memphis Blues, Atlanta gospel-infused piano, to new music “about bird song, the electric dance of neurons, and the wonders of our shared humanity,” our Season 3 artists each deliver a deep infusion and expression of our American spirit. We welcome you with doors, arms, and ears wide open to experience this sanctuary of sound. We are committed to preserving the past, championing new works, and exploring the boundaries of possibility. Thank you for your support in honoring this art form and keeping our hearts, minds, and spirits alive.
Swing and Soul,
- Virginia Schenck | Artistic Director, Jazz at All Saints’ Concert Series
The Rodney Jordan Quintet
Friday, October 9 | 7:00pm
Tickets $25/General, $15/Student
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The aesthetic beauty of this quintet is beyond dispute. – Paris Move
Rodney Jordan, Bass | Louis Heriveaux, Piano | Quentin Baxter, Drums | Matthew White, Trumpet | Mark Sterbank, Saxophone
For their evening at All Saints’, Grammy Award-nominated jazz bassist Rodney Jordan and his quintet will perform selections from their chart-topping album Memphis Blue and will premiere new works written specifically for this concert celebrating their longstanding friendships in Atlanta.
Known for his deep groove, melodic clarity, and commanding ensemble presence, Rodney Jordan is a widely respected artist, composer, and bandleader. He has performed nationally and internationally at major jazz venues and festivals and has been featured in numerous jazz publications. The Memphis native leads the Rodney Jordan Quintet whose Memphis Blue project blends original compositions with modern interpretations of the jazz tradition with a blues-inspired sensibility. Deeply committed to preparing students for professional careers in music, Jordan serves as Professor of Jazz Bass and the Coordinator of Jazz and Commercial Music at Florida State University.
Kenny Banks, Jr., piano
Friday, November 13 | 7:00pm
Tickets $25/General, $15/Student
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Known for his “deeply embodied gospel and soul roots,” Kenny’s “arrangements are thrilling, modern, and surprising. - Downbeat Magazine
Atlanta resident Kenny Banks, Jr., has earned a reputation as one of the most dynamic jazz artists in the Southeast. Noted for his distinctive technique of blending jazz and gospel styles, Banks’s repertoire also includes flavors of AfroCuban and hip-hop sounds gathered from performing and recording around the world with a variety of artists.
A brilliant solo artist, Banks is also a regular on tour with vocalist Kurt Elling and vibraphonist Stefon Harris. He began playing the piano at age seven, and in his training with his father, Kenny Banks, Sr., also a pianist, he learned the fundamentals of music theory, jazz, and composition. Under the guidance of his mother, a church music director, he found the church to be his first musical outlet. In his career Kenny has performed and toured with such jazz luminaries as Theo Croker, Darren English, Jennifer Holiday, Jazzmeia Horn, and Kenny Lattimore.
He performs regularly in New York at jazz clubs and with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and his artistry has enhanced numerous film and television productions originating in Atlanta.
Helen Sung, piano
Friday, February 12 | 7:00pm
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Sung plays with crisp swing and elegant invention, her rhythms drawing from the music’s deepest blues roots – and setting listeners’ heads bobbing – while she explores her own fresh ideas, often inspired from her classical training. – The New York Times
Helen Sung's Live Wire Project
In 2019, Helen Sung served as the first ever Jazz Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s prestigious Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. The residency sponsors musical artists for a period of engagement, inspiration and discovery at the Institute, reflecting its commitment to creating a dynamic and exciting environment for the exploration of the mind and brain, and its desire to foster a connection between music and sciences. Dialoguing with Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientists, learning about their research, and examining the arts as a celebration of our brains inspired her Live Wire project – a collection of music about bird song, the electric dance of neurons, and the wonders of our shared humanity. Helen Sung's Live Wire Project has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Pianist, composer, and a Guggenheim Fellow, Helen Sung was part of the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance (now the Herbie Hancock Institute). In addition to performing with her band at leading venues both stateside and abroad, she has worked with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Regina Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and the Mingus Big Band. Based in New York City, she currently serves on the faculties of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Columbia University, where she was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at its Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute exploring intersections of jazz and neuroscience.
A Steinway Artist, “Sung plays with crisp swing and elegant invention, her rhythms drawing from the music’s deepest blues roots – and setting listeners’ heads bobbing – while she explores her own fresh ideas, often inspired from her classical training.” (New York Times)
Maria Howell, vocal
Friday, March 12 | 7:00pm
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Maria Howell, Vocals | Noel Freidline, Piano | Kevin Smith, Bass | Justin Varnes, Drums | John Sanford, Saxophone
One only needs to be within earshot to be drawn into the magic that is Maria. – Carl Anthony, Notorious Jazz/Voice of the 2025 Atlanta Jazz Festival
Maria Howell brings her signature warmth, soul, and storytelling to All Saints' as she and her quintet celebrate the enduring influence of three of the most iconic voices in American music—The Ladies of Jazz: Ella, Billie, and Sarah. With style and heart, Maria has an uncanny ability to inhabit the spirit of each legend while making their songs uniquely her own. Beloved standards, soulful ballads, and swinging favorites will stir memories and delight as she honors the music and legacy of these extraordinary women. As a song stylist and actor, Maria Howell has owned the stage—from jazz clubs, festivals, and theaters across the U.S. as well as numerous film productions. She began her career as the choir soloist in the film The Color Purple and has appeared in The Vampire Diaries, Mississippi Damned, The Blind Side, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and, currently, the popular soap opera Beyond the Gates. She regularly appears in a duo act with Noel Freidline and with Atlanta’s Jazz Legacy Project. Maria stars frequently at the Jazz Corner, the award-winning jazz club on Hilton Head Island.
As a song stylist and actor, Maria Howell has owned the stage from jazz clubs, festivals, and theaters across the U.S. as well as numerous film productions. She began her career as the choir soloist in the film The Color Purple and has appeared in The Vampire Diaries, Mississippi Damned, The Blind Side, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and, currently, the popular soap opera Beyond the Gates. Maria stars frequently at the Jazz Corner, the award-winning jazz club on Hilton Head Island.
Past Concerts 2025-2026 Season
Our 2025-2026 Season found us chosen for Atlanta Magazine’s Best of Atlanta! Atlanta has showed up for some love in the heart of Midtown and we could not be more pleased to host this sanctuary of sound and community by today’s top jazz artists.
We started the season with Grammy Award-winning drummer Robert Boone Jr. and his quartet. Robert is a featured performer with The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, serves on the jazz faculty of Georgia State University, and is currently a member of the local band, The Boom! Trio. Audiences were moved to their feet and with shouts of praise, as Robert paid tribute to iconic jazz drummer and social activist Max Roach whose We Insist! Freedom Now Suite was
one of the driving forces in the Civil Rights Movement.
Atlanta warmly welcomed nine-time Grammy nominee and multi-faceted artist, Nnenna Freelon as she shared heart-spoken songs of love and loss from her latest album and debut book, Beneath the Skin. This most esteemed jazz vocalist, composer, arranger, producer, and arts education advocate reached deep into our hearts and drew our first sold-out crowd.
Jazz at All Saints’ lit up Atlanta’s jazz scene when young South African trumpet sensation Darren English premiered his new album, “He Said/She Said,” for an American audience. Our hearts warmed with the spirited conversation that takes place between male and female voices coalescing in ultimate harmonies. We can see why he is the two-time winner of the Global Peace Song Award.
Jazz harpist Brandee Younger transformed our lives as she has revolutionized the harp’s role in modern music, connecting spiritual jazz and classical training with the soulfulness of R&B. Jazz at All Saints’ will never be the same having been graced with her presence, fresh ideas, and penetrating tones and another sold-out show. We have been transported to a new world. Thank you for joining us in the heart of Midtown Atlanta for our 2025-2026 series.
Past Concerts 2024-2025 Season
Our artists for the 2024-2025 season attracted large and responsive audiences, garnered extensive praise from attendees, other performers, and Atlanta jazz media.
Our series began with piano virtuoso and composer Gary Motley and his quartet. And what a beginning! With his soul-stirring style and an array of new compositions and beloved standards, Gary set the bar for the season, demonstrating again why his artistry is appreciated by fellow jazz musicians as well as audiences across the country. Apart from his artistic work, Gary is a professor of practice and the founding director of Jazz Studies at Emory University.
The brilliant young pianist and Atlanta native Joe Alterman and his trio had the crowd begging for more in his November concert. With his infectious, joyful style, Joe demonstrated why he is a regular at New York’s Birdland and the recipient of praise from jazz legends like Les McCann, Ahmad Jamal, and Ramsey Lewis.
Grammy Award winner Carmen Bradford, a featured soloist with The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, enthralled a near-capacity crowd with her distinctive voice and captivating stories about her life as part of jazz royalty. Accompanied by her longtime friend, pianist Reginald Thomas, she proved to the audience’s delight that if it ain’t got that swing, it ain’t got Carmen!
Along with his trio, the versatile performer and Atlanta Braves organist Matt Kaminski knocked it out of the park in the concluding concert. As he demonstrated jazz organ and ballpark organ techniques, he had the audience on its feet throughout his set, just as he does at Truist Park. The jazz energy generated by this smiling virtuoso continues as our concert series begins a new season.
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