Grammy-winning American pianist Kevin Hays takes over Kunsten for an evening of jazz, improvisation and close musical contact. Over several decades he has become a distinctive voice on the international jazz scene, moving with easy grace between the sophisticated and the immediate, with melody, improvisation and the meeting between musicians at the centre.
Hays has played with many of jazz's great names, including Sonny Rollins, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman and Chris Potter, and has also worked closely with Brad Mehldau, Steve Gadd and Lionel Loueke. He has toured as pianist with singer-songwriter James Taylor. At Kunsten the audience gets very close to a musician used to the world's biggest stages, in the museum's more intimate surroundings. Brad Mehldau has called him "a true original".
