Slavic Soul Party!

Hamptons JazzFest presents the Edsel Gomez Quartet at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor — a powerful performance blending jazz, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Brazilian influences, and contemporary improvisation.

Born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Edsel Gomez is a Grammy-nominated pianist, composer, and arranger whose work spans jazz, Latin jazz, and global music traditions. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his album Cubist Music (Zoho Music, 2006) and arranged and directed Dee Dee Bridgewater’s Grammy-winning recording Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater.

Over his career Gomez has worked with Jack DeJohnette, Don Byron, Brian Lynch, and Eddie Palmieri, and has performed internationally across jazz and world music festivals. His music draws deeply on his Puerto Rican roots while embracing the full breadth of the jazz tradition and contemporary improvisation.

This performance at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor brings Gomez’s quartet to one of the East End’s most intimate and distinctive venues — an evening of rhythmically rich, deeply expressive jazz.