Endea Owens and the Cookout
May 10, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
You’ve seen Endea Owens as the bassist on the Late Show’s house band, or heard her on Jon Batiste’s Grammy-winning album “They are.” Come dig the Cookout, her acoustic bass-led sextet of rhythmically charged music. Endea Owens is known as one of Jazz’s most vibrant emerging artists. As a Detroit-raised Recording Artists, Bassist, and Composer, she has been mentored by Jazz Icons the likes of Marcus Belgrave, Rodney Whitaker, and Ron Carter as well as toured/performed with Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Holliday, Diana Ross, Rhonda Ross, Solange, Jon Batiste, Jazzmeia Horn, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Steve Turre to name a few. Endea was a part of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert house band, won an Emmy, Grammy Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award, and her work has appeared on Jon Batiste’s Grammy Award-winning album “We Are”, Oscar-nominated film Judas and the Black Messiah, and H.E.R’s widely acclaimed Super Bowl LV performance. She has composed a piece entitled “Ida’s Crusade” for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which was later performed by the NYO Carnegie Hall Orchestra, and has written for brands such as Pyer Moss and Glossier and has been commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
