Brian Charette Jason Marsalis & Will Bernard

rian Charette • Jason Marsalis • Will Bernard

Three of the most restlessly inventive voices in modern jazz walk into the Maple Leaf — and what happens next is nobody's business but yours.

Brian Charette is a Hammond-endorsed organist who currently sits at #2 on the DownBeat Critics' Poll for organ — the New York Times called his playing "the ageless objective of soul-jazz with a trace of restless modernity." Grammy-nominated guitarist Will Bernard has been called "one of the best-kept jazz-guitar secrets on the planet" by Billboard — a Bay Area original who's drawn from jazz, funk, hip-hop, and everything in between. Jason Marsalis — drummer, vibraphonist, composer, and the youngest son of the legendary Ellis Marsalis — took his first drum lesson from New Orleans icon James Black at the age of six, and has been setting the pace ever since.

Charette and Bernard are no strangers to…