Jimmy Katz
Guitarist Peter Bernstein didn’t start playing professionally until 1990 but has racked up a stunning résumé since then, gigging with legends like Lou Donaldson (for a decade!), Jim Hall, Sonny Rollins, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jimmy Cobb, Bobby Hutcherson, and David “Fathead” Newman, plus contemporaries Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Diana Krall, Gerald Clayton, Sullivan Fortner, and his long-running trio with keyboardist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart. For this show, his quintet consists of locals as badass as he is, including saxophonist Joel Frahm, pianist Andy Langham, drummer Daniel Dufour, and bassist Alex Claffy. Bernstein also joins Austin axeman Bruce Saunders’ quartet Thursday at Monks Jazz. – Michael Toland
