2026 MUSIC SERIES

 
 

LUKE BERGMAN TRIO
Friday, June 19, 6-8 pm

Luke Bergman is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and recording artist based in Seattle, WA. His voice, bass and guitar work have been utilized in groups he writes for like Heatwarmer as well as sideperson work with Bill Frisell, Cuong Vu, Andrew Bird and others.

“Luke has an amazing ability to create things that simultaneously move people and make people move. The fact that his music is often quite complicated and dense makes this attribute even more remarkable to me.” - Kristian Garrard, Earshot Jazz

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KAYVON GORDON SEXTET
Thursday July 23, 6-8 pm

Kayvon Gordon - Drums. Joel Ross - Vibraphone, David Leon - Saxophone
Elias Stemeseder - Piano, Dean Torrey - Bass, Shakoor Hakeem - Percussion

Kayvon Gordon was born and raised in Detroit. At a young age, he was taken under the mentorship of legendary trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. Later, he went on to the University of Michigan where he studied with Robert Hurst and Benny Green. Gordon has performed In Europe, Africa, South Asia, The United Arab Emirates, and North America. He has also had the honor of sharing the stage with Marcus Belgrave, Joe Lovano, Johnny O’Neal, Robert Hurst, Rodney Whitaker, Sullivan Fortner, Ravi Coltrane, JD Allen and Wynton MarsaliS, to name a few. Kayvon Gordon seeks to contribute to the forward thinking aesthetic of his contemporaries while honoring the rich musical legacy of Detroit.

Band members Kayvon Gordon, Joel Ross, David Leon and Elias Stemeseder are Duck Creek Music Series Alumni!

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DEVON GATES: LARGE ENSEMBLE
Thursday July 30, 6-8 pm (rain date Friday, July 31)

Devon Gates (bass, vocals), Lee Fish (drums), Marta Sanchez (keyboard). Matt Greenwood (electric guitar), Formas Quartet featuring: Brian Urra (violin 1), Louis Thelot (violin 2), Sarah Zahorodni (viola), Peter Sumner (cello), Veronica Leahy (woodwinds)

Devon Gates is a Brooklyn-based bassist, vocalist, and composer whose work weaves together jazz, chamber music, and social storytelling. With a focus on sparking intimate musical connection between artist and audience, Gates presents lush arrangements for her wide-ranging compositions and arrangements for nonet – jazz rhythm section (electric guitar, piano, bass, drums) plus the Boston-based Formas String Quartet, and woodwinds.

Bridging the worlds of contemporary jazz, folk, and soul, Devon’s music is described by friends as a “warm hug”, embracing the listener and bringing them into a dreamlike journey they won’t soon forget.

Band members Lee Fish and Marta Sanchez are Duck Creek Music Series Alumni!

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TIM WATSON TRIO
Thursday August 6, 6-8 pm

Tim Watson is a 26-year-old Brooklyn-based guitarist, producer, and composer whose idiosyncratic approach to the instrument has taken him from the Village Vanguard and Lincoln Center to collaborative performances with Carnatic artists in Chennai and Ignacio Berroa's trio in Miami. A sought-after sideman, he is a member of groups led by Emmanuel Michael, Nazir Ebo, Brian Richburg Jr., Cisco Swank, and Dion Kerr, and leads his own trio alongside ongoing collaborative projects. In 2023 he premiered BLACKPILL 2023, a theatrical composition for octet inspired by fringe internet communities — a work that speaks to the fearless originality at the heart of everything he does.

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MINNIE JORDAN SEXTET: Original Suite Debut
Thursday August 27 6-8 pm (rain date August 30)

Minnie Jordan (violin) Carrie Frey (viola) Raffi Boden (cello) Evan Main (keys) Charlie Lincoln (bass) and Eliza Salem (drums)

As a young fiddler growing up on a ranch in Texas, books and birds were my most constant companions; while I dreamed about the big city, I developed a love of natural melody and dramatic arc that remains with me to this day. This new suite of original compositions, which I will be debuting for this concert, weave together my many musical influences with a storyteller’s aesthetic, while remaining rooted in the jazz idiom.  These compositions represent my core commitment to melodicism, empathy, and world-building through composition and improvisation, kaleidoscopically refracted through the polychromaticism of my life as a jazz musician in New York. My band, featuring Evan Main, Charlie Lincoln, and Eliza Salem, has been performing around New York for over two years, and I'm very excited about the sound we have crafted together, and the depth and imagination that they bring to my music. For this concert we will also be joined by the stellar Carrie Frey and Raffi Boden on strings.

Minnie Jordan is a Berklee-trained violinist and composer whose work spans jazz, bluegrass, and American roots music — performing everywhere from Dizzy's Club at Lincoln Center to the Kennedy Center to the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival. A FreshGrass Award winner and two-time Next Jazz Legacy Award nominee, she has studied with John Patitucci, Danilo Perez, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Joe Lovano, and leads her own quartet and sextet on the New York scene.

Band members Charlie Lincoln and Eliza Salem are Duck Creek Music Series Alumni!

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CARACAS TRIO with Special Guest
Saturday September 3, 6-8 pm

Juan Diego Villalobos - vibraphone, Gabriel Chakarji - piano, Daniel Prim - drums and special guest Yilmer Vivas - saxophone

Caracas Trio is a New York-based Venezuelan ensemble made up of three musicians who grew up in the same neighborhood in Caracas before finding their way into New York City's modern jazz scene. Their music is rooted in the Afro-Venezuelan rhythms and melodic improvisation at the heart of Venezuelan folk tradition, shaped by the energy and community of the city they now call home. The trio's distinctive instrumentation — keyboards, vibraphone, and drums, with shared vocals, percussion, and original compositions from all three members — allows them to weave together intricate rhythms and melodies that are at once deeply traditional and thoroughly contemporary. The result is a sound that is celebratory, inventive, and unlike anything else on the scene.

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