The Lavon Stevens Quartet featuring Grammy Award-Winning Saxophonist Kebbi Williams

Wed, Nov 08

Show Ticket $10 - $15 Dinner is required with all reservations. *6:30 PM SHOW - DINNER RESERVATIONS FROM 5:15 PM *9:00 PM SHOW - DINNER RESERVATIONS FROM 8:00 PM Kebbi Williams is considered to be one of today’s leading improvisers on tenor saxophone. The Grammy award winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, arranger, teacher and innovator, defies categorization and experiments with all music genres. From avant-garde, jazz, hip-hop and latin to afro-beat, gospel, electronica and classical Kebbi bends it to his will and into his compositions to create a sound that is uniquely and undeniably his own. Kebbi was born into a musical family. His father, Earl Williams, is an iconic figure in the LowCountry and beyond. Earl played Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Harmonica, Banjo, and sang. Kebbi's father was a Composer, Arranger, and Master Showman... Earl played with many internationally famous people including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Isaac Hayes, and Chubby Checker. He was band leader for Jerry Farber, a great comedian from Atlanta and toured with The Commodores from 1976 – 1980. He started playing at the Crow’s Nest at the old Hilton Head Inn in 1987. Kebbi studied saxophone throughout high school and college. He received an undergraduate degree in Jazz from Howard University and returned to earn a Master's in Jazz Studies. The public began to take note of Williams in 1995 when he won the Graduate College Outstanding Performance in the Jazz Instrumental Soloist Category award from Downbeat Magazine at the age of 22. Williams was no longer a best-kept secret. Williams has gone on to play a wide range of music including Jazz, Hip-Hop, Soul, and Rock & Roll. He has performed with many of the best contemporary and legendary Musicians of our time, a long list that includes Grammy Award winners: Outkast, Branford Marsalis, Donald Byrd, Roy Hargrove, Cee-lo and Gnarls Barkley, Mos Def, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Bilal, Oteil Burbridge, Me’Shell Ndegeocello, Russell Gunn, Betty Carter, Derek Trucks, and Julie Dexter. Kebbi has always been breaking down barriers and pushing the envelope Musically; turning his Jazz background and training into a coveted item that can crossover into the varied worlds of Hip-Hop, Soul, and Rock & Roll. Kebbi continues to perform around the world with many great Musicians ranging from Tedeschi Trucks Band, Outkast and Mos Def to virtuosos like Me’Shell Ndegeocello. Lavon Stevens ~ Pianist, Composer, Vocalist, Arranger, Educator A native of Savannah, Georgia, Lavon began singing and playing piano at the age of 7. He began performing in local groups across the Southeast at the age of thirteen. His first instrument was the violin. He later studied voice and piano at Dekalb College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1979 to 1983. Lavon has been a featured artist at The Jazz Corner for over 18 years.