Please join Ars Nova Workshop for a special live performance by saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, celebrating The 7th Hand, his latest release on Blue Note Records, at PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th Street) on January 27, 2022 at 8:00PM.
Commemorating the release of this much-anticipated sophomore outing, Wilkins and his stellar quartet — pianist Micah Thomas, bassist Daryl Johns, and drummer Kweku Sumbry — will premiere music from the new album’s seven-part suite during this homecoming performance.
In 2020, the Brooklyn-based, Philadelphia-raised saxophonist and composer Wilkins released Omega, his Jason Moran-produced Blue Note debut, to great critical accolades. The New York Times named Omega best jazz album of the year, praising Wilkins’ quartet for “gliding and diving with a telepathic synergy through tunes that he composed with the nation’s racial ills in mind, and that thrive thanks to a buoyant, up-to-date sense of swing," while JazzTimes referred to the album as “the most important debut jazz recording in years.”
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Philadelphia 2025 Blues Festiva | 11:00am - 6:00pm | Temple University (Ambler Campus) | All Ages |
Grrrl Gang | 7:30pm | Silk City | 21+ |
No Regrets / No Such Noise / Drive Thru Pharmacy | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
Nate Smith | 8:00pm | Perelman Theater (Inside the Kimmel Center) | All Ages |
High Vis / Pissed Jeans / Secret World / Cold Gawd | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
Team Dresch / Vitapup | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
Alex G | 8:00pm | The Fillmore | All Ages |
54 Ultra | 8:00pm | Ruba Club | 21+ |
Stacey Ryan | 8:30pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
The Shakedown (Mark Farina) | 10:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | 21+ |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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WKDU Presents: Impressions Block Party | 12:00pm | Impressions Philly | All Ages |
Natural Information Society (Early Show) | 3:30pm | The Fabric Workshop and Museum | All Ages |
Natural Information Society (Evening Show) | 5:30pm | The Fabric Workshop and Museum | All Ages |
Destroyer / Cass McCombs | 7:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
Hotline TNT / Path of Totality | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |