The Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet will bring their award-winning sound to the Crocker Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 20. The Quintet will perform select works inspired by the exhibition “Gardens and Grandeur: Porcelains and Paintings by Franz A. Bischoff,” on view through October 23. The concert will take place in the Museum’s Setzer Foundation Auditorium at 7 p.m. The Quintet—comprised of Alec Watson, piano; Rane Roatta, tenor sax; Malachi Whitson, drums; Tree Palmedo, trumpet; and Bill Vonderhaar, bass—is the winner of numerous DownBeat awards, including the 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 awards for best collegiate jazz group in the country. The group has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festi

Though the teenage members of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet have played together for less than a month, they have already achieved what many accomplished jazz musicians never will: At the Detroit International Jazz Festival over Labor Day weekend, they performed and shared the stage with legends such as Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea and Christian McBride. They even spent time with Dave Brubeck when he visited their rehearsal. When Brubeck listened to the group's arrangement of his 1956 jazz standard "In Your Own Sweet Way," he loved it, said Steve Anderson, director of the Brubeck Institute. "They're good. That's a given," Anderson said of the group, which will be a quartet Friday nigh