Johannes Wallmann’s Precarious Towers

JOHANNES WALLMANN’S PRECARIOUS TOWERS.  Pianist, composer and the Peterson Professor of Jazz Studies at UW- Madison Johannes Wallmann has recorded nine critically acclaimed albums as a leader, including Elegy for an Undiscovered Species, which was named a “Best of 2021” album by DownBeat magazine and described as “delightfully mind blowing throughout” by Midwest Record.  DownBeat magazine has called Wallmann “a remarkable pianist and composer [whose] evocative compositions are brimming with melodic cogency and rhythmic pull” and called his playing “confident, muscular and elegant.”  UW Memorial Union Terrace, 800 Langdon St.  7pm.  Free event.