Arts and Entertainment

Attucks Jazz - Walter Blanding, saxophone

March 22 2025

7:30 PM
Attucks Theatre 1010 Church St, Norfolk, Va 23510 Email: info@vafest.org; Phone number: 757-282-2822 Price: Tickets start at $25

Walter Blanding, saxophone
John Toomey, piano
Jim Masters, bass
Frank Russo, drums

Co-presented with SevenVenues and Virginia Arts Festival. A member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since the 1990s, Walter Blanding carves out a saxophone sound like no other. Born into a musical family (both parents played in the house band at New York’s Village Gate jazz club), he started playing professionally at age 16—and it was around that age that the dreadlocked youngster was first heard by Wynton Marsalis, who says, simply, “I always loved him and his playing. He plays with deep blues feeling, harmonic sophistication and directness.”

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