A night of otherwordly jazz performed by the Blue Note Quintet will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, at Vashon Center for the Arts.

The concert is part of a U.S. tour, celebrating the 85th anniversary of the famous Blue Note record label, which launched jazz giants Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey and many more.

The label, founded in 1939, has traced the entire history of the genre, from hot jazz, boogie woogie, and swing, through bebop, hard bop, post-bop, soul jazz, avant-garde, and fusion. After being relaunched by Bruce Lundvall in 1984, it has remained the leading label dedicated to documenting the contemporary jazz scene.

The Blue Note Quintet continues this tradition.

The quintet — a group brought together to honor the label’s rich history and showcase the label’s current roster of eclectic musicians — is led by six-time Grammy Award nominee Gerald Clayton, as musical director and pianist.

Collaborating over the years with such distinctive artists as Diana Krall, Roy Hargrove, Dianne Reeves, Terence Blanchard, John Scofield, Terri Lyne Carrington, Peter Bernstein, Ambrose Akinmusire, Gretchen Parlato, Ben Wendel, the Clayton Brothers Quintet and legendary band leader Charles Lloyd, Clayton currently serves as director of Next Generation Jazz Orchestra.

Rounding out the group are vibraphonist Joel Ross, saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, drummer Kendrick Scott, and bassist Matt Brewer.

Ross, a Chicago-born virtuoso of the vibes, played a solo show at Vashon Center for the Arts in 2019.

He has performed with Herbie Hancock, Louis Hayes, Christian McBride, and Stefon Harris, as well as with cutting-edge contemporaries like Ambrose Akinmusire, Gerald Clayton, Jon Batiste and many others.

Wilkins, a saxophonist and composer who was born in Philadelphia and is now based in Brooklyn, recorded his debut album, “Omega,” in 2020, which went on to be named the #1 Jazz Record of the Year by The New York Times. The album also introduced his remarkable quartet with Micah Thomas on piano, Daryl Johns on bass, and Kweku Sumbry on drums — a tight-knit unit that Wilkins features once again on his sophomore album, “The 7th Hand.”

Kendrick Scott was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in a family of musicians.

While still in high school, Scott won several DownBeat Magazine student awards, as well as the Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Award from the International Association of Jazz Educators.

Scott has toured with Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd, The Crusaders, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Kurt Elling, and Terence Blanchard, also appearing on several of the trumpeter’s Blue Note albums including “Flow” (2005), “A Tale Of God’s Will” (2007), and “Magnetic” (2013).

Scott’s first two releases on Blue Note presented his band Kendrick Scott Oracle: “We Are The Drum” (2015) and “A Wall Becomes A Bridge” (2019). His 2023 Blue Note album, “Corridors,” finds him paring down to a trio with saxophonist Walter Smith III and bassist Reuben Rogers.

Bassist Matt Brewer was born in Oklahoma City and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, surrounded by a family of musicians and artists. At the age of 10, Matt fell in love with the bass and began a lifelong study of music. He graduated high school from the Interlochen Arts Academy and then went on to study at the Juilliard School. He has traveled the world playing in the bands of Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Dave Binney, Gerald Clayton, Ben Wendel, Aaron Parks, Vijay Iyer, Dhafer Youssef, Antonio Sanchez, Mark Turner, Steve Lehman, Ben Monder, and Lage Lund, among many others.

Find out more and get tickets to the concert at vashoncenterforthearts.org.