Lennon, Monk & Bach Walk into A Bar…
Friday, September 12, 2025 | 6:00pm-7:15pm
Details:
Lennon, Monk & Bach Walk into A bar…” — Live Concert Experience
Peter Saltzman fuses rock/pop, jazz, and classical repertoire into a cohesive, improvisational journey. By spotlighting three towering figures—John Lennon, Thelonious Monk, and Johann Sebastian Bach—Saltzman invites audiences to hear familiar melodies through fresh, virtuosic transformations.
Saltzman opens with vocal renditions of Lennon classics—transcending the Beatle canon with inventive piano arrangements—then weaves into Monk’s angular jazz world and interlaces improvisations on Bach preludes and fugues.
Recognize the last name? He's the brother of our Fitness Manager, Jane.
About Peter Saltzman:
Peter Saltzman is a master composer, pianist, vocalist, and educator whose genre-defying work spans jazz, classical, and pop traditions. His 2000 album Kaballah Blues was hailed as
“ambitious, richly layered, wonderfully accessible” (Chicago Sun-Times), and his orchestral suite "Walls" was called “powerful stuff” (Dallas Morning News). His solo piano album Blues, Preludes & Feuds is "easily one of the very best piano releases of the last 30 years“ and "just plain genius” (All About Jazz). In discussing Saltzman's 2018 album, One Human Minute, Contemporary Fusion Reviews called him a "genius musical craftsman." Saltzman Studied Jazz at Indiana University and composition at Eastman School of Music.
Open to all.
Location:
The Center