GUILFORD — On Sunday, April 21, Wendy Redlinger's Jazz Soiree will host The Bob Stabach 4tet.
The foursome consists of Eugene Uman, artistic director of the Vermont Jazz Center, on piano; George Kaye on bass; Jon Fisher on drums; and Bob Stabach, leader and composer, on saxophone.
Since this concert will be on the eve of Earth Day, the band will present jazz tunes with titles referring to the earth, nature, and ecology.
Between tunes, Wendy will read haiku by the Japanese Zen poet Matsuo Basho, the most celebrated 17th century master of this poetic form.
Stabach will read American haiku poems by Jack Kerouac, who in 1959 released his second album, Blues and Haiku, reciting his haiku with jazz saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.