Joe Lovano Tickets

GRAMMY� Award-Winner & 14x-GRAMMY� Nominated Jazz Saxophonist and Composer JOE LOVANO is fearless in finding new modes of artistic expression. Lovano has won Downbeat Magazine�s Critics and Readers Polls countless times as "Tenor Saxophonist of the Year", "Musician of the Year", and "Jazz Album of the Year." He has also received numerous awards from Jazz Times and the Jazz Journalists Association for "Tenor Saxophonist of the Year", "Album of the Year" and "Musician of the Year."

Lovano's GRAMMY� Award-Winning album is '52nd Street Themes' (1999) while his GRAMMY� Nominated albums include 'Streams of Expression' (2005), 'Symphonica' (2006), 'Remembrance' (2009), 'Bird Songs' (2010), 'Wild Beauty' (2013), and 'The Latin Side of Joe Henderson' (2014). Lovano also has 3 GRAMMY� Nominations for "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance" as well as one for "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo" and one for "Best Jazz Improvised Solo."

Born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 29, 1952, Lovano attended the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston where years later he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate. Since 2001, he has held the Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance and is a founding faculty member since 2009 of the Global Jazz Institute at Berklee directed by Danilo P�rez. He is a guest lecturer at New York University�s Jazz Program, Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music as well as Clinician at Universities around the globe.

From 1991 through 2016, Lovano released an unprecedented 25 acclaimed albums as a leader for historic Blue Note Records. In 2019, Lovano released his debut album as a bandleader on ECM Records, 'Trio Tapestry', with Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi. Over the next few years, Lovano saw the release of three additional ECM Records albums: 'ROMA', a collaboration with Enrico Rava; 'Arctic Riff', a special guest appearance with the Marcin Wasilewski Trio; and the sophomore release from Lovano�s Trio Tapestry, 'Gardens of Expression'. Most recently, Joe also released his third album with 'Sound Prints', a quintet he co-leads with trumpeter Dave Douglas.

Joe Lovano has performed and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Woody Herman, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmeyer, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Tony Bennett, Abbey Lincoln, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Gunther Schuller, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Ed Blackwell, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Hank Jones, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Dave Douglas, Judi Silvano, Ravi Coltrane, Chucho Vald�s, Ornette Coleman, Diana Krall, and many others. Joe has created an extensive body of work for his own ensembles including strings, woodwinds, his horn-rich Nonet, the Classic Quartet, Trio Tapestry, and more.