Performances

Tuesday, December 6; 8 PM - Sataraš Quartet; Red Light Cafe, 553-1 Amsterdam Ave. NE, Atlanta 30306. With special guest Ben Davis Saturday, December 10, 8 PM: Sataraš Quartet - Random Sample; 407 48th Ave. N, Nashville, TN 37209. With Public Speaking & Zero Quintet Sunday, December 11, 8 PM: Sataraš Quartet - Barley's; 200 E Jackson Ave.; Knoxville, TN 37915 Tuesday, December 27, 7 PM - midnight: Jeff Crompton & Ben Shirley's Eastern Continental - No Words Fest, Red Light Cafe; 553-1 Amsterdam Ave. NE, Atlanta 30306. With Artifactual String Unit, PerkinsWood, Frank Schultz, and FLAP Jeff’s short opera “Buddy Bolden” is availabe on the web! Click here to see and hear this 30-minute chamber opera based on the life of jazz pioneer Charles “Buddy” Bolden.

Notable past performances

Guest soloist with Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, August 10, 2019 Crompton/Sloan Duo - Scholes Street Studio, New York, July 18, 2019 Jeff Crompton Trio - Hi-Ho Lounge, New Orleans, July, 2017 Edgewood Big Band at the First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta. 30 years of original compositions arranged for twelve-piece ensemble - May, 2016 Billie Holiday on the Radio at Word of South Festival, Tallahassee - April, 2016 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra at the Pensacola Jazz Festival - April, 2014 An Evening with Alec Wilder at the First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta. The great composer’s “classical” music and pop songs presented side by side - February, 2010 Michael J. Smith Quintet at Agnes Scott College - 1993 Numerous appearances by the Bazooka Ants and the Jeff Crompton Quartet at the Atlanta Jazz Festival - 1980s & 1990s