Fay Victor and Darius Jones | Arts for Art 2019

Vocalist Fay Victor and alto saxophonist Darius Jones perform a duo performance for Arts for Art’s founder Patricia Nicholson’s 70th Birthday Benefit Celebration. Although Victor and Jones have performed together for years in a number of different ensembles, this performance was their first ever live duet.

Filmed and recorded November 19, 2019 at the Clemente, NYC.

Darius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of African-American music. With NYC as his base, Jones has toured around the United States, Canada and Europe. Jones was one of Jazz Times' Debut Artists of the Year for 2009 and was featured in the Wall Street Journal in 2011, and in 'DownBeat' in 2012. Jones' 2012 release, Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) was listed among NPR's Best Top 10 Jazz Albums of that year. Critics have called him "robustly creative" (Nate Chinen, NYT) and "one of NYC's most incisive and passionate saxists" (Time Out).

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