DATE: Saturday, Jan. 21
TIME: 8 p.m.
TICKETS: $15 ($12 for students and seniors)

Billy Hart, drums; Alex Cummings, saxophone; Jackson Laskey, piano; Dan Pappalardo, double-bass

Drum icon Billy Hart – renowned for his vintage work with artists from Wes Montgomery and Miles Davis to Stan Getz and Herbie Hancock, as well as his recent acclaimed ECM releases as a leader – returns to Sound It Out to front a quartet of handpicked young charges: saxist Alex Cummings, pianist Jackson Kaskey and bassist Dan Pappalardo. The Detroit Free Press has said of the band’s veteran leader: Want to know what jazz is really about? Listen to Billy Hart.