Jerome Gillespie Quintet
About This Event
The Jerome Gillespie Quintet plays at Smalls Jazz Club in a setting that rewards small-room detail and restrained ensemble interplay. Their work, here paired with Rico Jones and the Rico Jones Quartet, emphasizes time feel, dynamics and patient solo development, with arrangements that favor clarity and in-the-moment choices over display.
About the Artists
Jerome Gillespie Quintet
The Jerome Gillespie Quintet is a New York City–based jazz group heard at Smalls Jazz Club, where small-room acoustics reward detail and restraint. The band works in a quintet format that foregrounds ensemble interplay, with solos shaped as extensions of the group conversation.
Rico Jones
Rico Jones is a New York City–based jazz musician whose work is often heard in the close quarters of Smalls Jazz Club. He leads the Rico Jones Quartet, a working unit built around small-group interplay and clear, unhurried phrasing.
Rico Jones Quartet
Rico Jones Quartet is a jazz group heard in New York City rooms such as Smalls Jazz Club, where the set list often keeps close to the bandstand tradition of working tunes into new shapes. Led by Rico Jones, the quartet draws on his experience performing alongside a range of collaborators under his own name.