If you know and love jazz, then there’s a pretty good chance that you know and love Billy Childs. With 17 Grammy nominations — including six wins — under his belt, the American pianist, composer and arranger is the bar for the esteemed genre. Vermont listeners get the rare opportunity to witness that consummate musicianship when Childs visits Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro, joined by trumpeter Jason Palmer, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Ari Hoenig. The quartet plays material from Childs’ boundary-pushing album The Winds of Change — which nabbed Best Instrumental Jazz Album of the Year in 2024.
