Sarah Hanahan Quartet

About

On the short list of the most exciting young alto saxophonists to emerge in the last five years, Sarah Hanahan and her quartet perform new music and material from her critically acclaimed debut Among Giants. More than holding her own with veteran masters Marc Cary (piano), Nat Reeves (bass) and Jeff “Tain” Watts (drums), Hanahan completed the journey from apprentice to leader, playing with the intensity, self-possession and audacious creativity of a major-league talent. She’d studied with Reeves at the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the Hartt School of Music as an undergrad and with Cary at Juilliard, where she earned a Master’s in 2022. That same year Hanahan was tapped for the first-ever class of NPR Jazz Night in America’s Youngbloods and featured as one of five “up-and-coming jazz geniuses who are revolutionizing their genre” in their 20s. She’s been ascending steadily ever since.