Jazz group the Secondary Messengers

Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center is proud to present Pioneer Valley-based, “funky hard bop” jazz musicians the Secondary Messengers, in concert on Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. The concert will be held at Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center, 289 Main St., Greenfield, MA. Tickets are $10 and available at http://hawksandreed.com. The Secondary Messengers are devoted to recreating the music of the influential ensembles of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded from the early '50s to the late '80s. The Jazz Messengers were noted for improvisation in the funky hard bop idiom with close harmonic lines, an intense driving rhythm section, and meticulously crafted arrangements.