In connection with the photography exhibition Traveling Full Circle: Frank Stewart’s Visual Music, on Friday, May 20, 2011, an illustrated panel discussion will explore the evolution of jazz photography from the early days of jazz to the present. Moderated by exhibit co-curator Robert G. O’Meally in discussion with photographer Frank Stewart, photography critic A.D. Coleman, photographer Petra Richterova PhD, and C. Daniel Dawson, exhibition co-curator.
Frank Stewart is a highly prolific photographer, who has spent the past few decades documenting jazz and blues culture, African American family and African American culinary arts and has documented and presented a series of works that celebrating a myriad of visual artists and poets, including: Romare Bearden, Ntozake Shange, and Langston Hughes, and Roy DeCarava.
The panel discussion will take place at 6:30 pm at The Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Studio at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY.
Traveling Full Circle: Frank Stewart’s Visual Music exhibition will be on view through August 7, 2011. The event is free and seating is open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 6:00pm. For more information on this exhibition and panel discussion, please visit jalc.org/exhibit.
Frank Stewart’s upcoming exhibits include:
Traveling Full Circle: Frank Stewart’s Bisual Music
Jazz at Lincoln Center/Time Warnter Building
Fifth floor Atrium Gallery
10 Columbus Circle, Manhattan
Kimo Stone Gallery, Pittsburgh
Galerie Intemporel, Paris
Summer 2011
Frank Stewart
Romare Bearden: The Last Years
July 15 - October 31, 2011
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3736
Fall 2011
September 2, 2011 - January 22, 2012
Romare Bearden: The Life
Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture
551 S. Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) embarks on the 2011 Vitoria Suite Tour in the U.S. wherein the world renowned big band will perform a wide variety of music - from original compositions to newly-arranged music of Chick Corea as well as selections from its most recent CD release, Vitoria Suite. Vitoria Suite is a new extended work by Marsalis that uses the impulse of the blues as a foundation to jointly explore the music of two worlds and two cultures: the jazz and blues of North America and the indigenous music of the Basque region and flamenco of Spain.
The tour will include the West Coast premiere of Swing Symphony, a new symphonic composition by Wynton Marsalis, performed by the JLCO and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. The large scale work, Marsalis’ third symphony, is written for full symphony orchestra and jazz orchestra and exploits the total and rhythmic potentialities of these two most powerful ensembles in a galvanizing fusion of traditions.
Photo: Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Music of Billy Strayhorn
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, accompanied by the rich baritone of José James, plays the distinctively gorgeous and iconic music of Billy Strayhorn.
One of the jazz world’s most brilliant composers, Billy Strayhorn wrote “Take the ‘A’ Train” and “Lush Life,” two classics from the Ellington songbook and in jazz history. Duke Ellington even called him “my right arm, my left arm and the eyes in the back of my head.” Whether as Duke Ellington’s key collaborator or on his own, Strayhorn is an important figure in jazz history. He was jazz’s leading romantic, as shown in the tender and sensual “Lush Life” and “Prelude to a Kiss” and with “Take the ‘A’ Train” and “Johnny Come Lately,” he wrote some of the hardest-swinging tunes of all time.
The event takes place November 5 & 6, 2010, 8pm at the home of Jazz at the Lincoln Center in the Rose Theater located on Broadway at 60th Street, New York, New York.
A free pre-concert discussion nightly at 7pm.
Tickets:
Ticket prices for Rose Theater are $10, $30, $50, $75, $95 or $120 dependent upon seating section.
JALC offers Hot Seats — $10 orchestra seats for each Rose Theater performance (excluding Jazz For Young People concerts), are available for purchase to the general public on the Wednesday of each performance week. Subject to availability. Hot Seats are available only by walk up at the Box Office, maximum of four per person.
All tickets can be purchased through jalc.org or CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, open daily from 9am to 9pm.
WeBop
by Theresa Crushshon
According to ScienceDaily, children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically trained peers, according to a study published in the journal Psychology of Music.
Music nourishes the soul and aids in language and literacy.
Jazz at the Lincoln Center offers a compelling course dedicated for the early music development of toddlers called WeBop. WeBop is produced in collaboration with Dr. Lori Custodero of Teachers College at Columbia University. It has been named the “best music class in the city” by New York Family, this early-childhood jazz education program teaches children (ages 8 months-5 years) and their parents/caregivers about jazz’s improvisation, creative process, instruments, styles, and great performers. The classes provide a creative outlet for parents and children to explore jazz as a tool to educate and express themselves together.
WeBop courses include: the ABC’s of Jazz, which explore the essentials of jazz, including swing, improvisation, blues, scat, riffs, and call and response; Meet the Jazz Band, whereby the instruments of a swinging jazz band, including piano, bass, drums, trumpet, saxophone, and trombone. Each week students are joined by a special guest musician; People of Jazz, where children get to know the lively music and vibrant personalities of jazz legends Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Charles Mingus.
Classes are designed for young people between the ages of eight months ot five years old. HIPSTERS are those who are 8 - 16 months old; SCATTERS are walking - 23 months old; STOMPERS are 2 - 3 years old; the GUMBO GROUP are 3-5 years old; and the SYNCOPATORS are 4 - 5 years old. An eight week course costs $300. Register by visiting jalc.org/webop or calling the WeBop registration line at 212-258-9835 (M-F 10am-5pm.)
The classes will take place at the Louis Armstrong Classroom,Irene Diamond Education Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City. For additional information email webop@jalc.org or 212-258-9835.
Courses
Fall Term, ABC’s of Jazz
September 28- November 21, 2010
On sale now
Trial classes: Saturday, September 11 and Sunday, September 19
Winter Term, Meet the Jazz Band
January 11-March 6, 2011
On sale: November 16, 2010
Trial classes: Saturday, December 4 and Sunday, December 12, 2010
Spring Term, People of Jazz
March 8-May 8, 2011
On sale: February 22, 2011
Trial class: Sunday, February 13, 2011
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC ) and The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs are pleased to collaborate for a sixth year on The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad. JALC is now accepting band applications for the 2010-11 season. American music quartets from throughout the United States specializing in jazz, urban/hip hop, bluegrass, blues, Cajun, country, gospel, and zydeco are invited to apply for the opportunity to tour internationally and share their music with the world.
Auditions will be held in New York City at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center and, for the first time in the history of the program, in New Orleans. More information will be available in upcoming weeks at jalc.org/TheRoad.
When:
November 1, 2010 Application deadline
December 17, 2010 Selected ensembles invited to live
auditions
January 16-18, 2011 Auditions in New York City
January 20-21, 2011 Auditions in New Orleans
January 28, 2011 Announcement of finalist ensembles for
2010-11 Rhythm Road tours
April-June 2011 & September 2011-February 2012
Domestic performances and
international touring
Musicians inquiring about applications can call 212-258-9899 or email: theroad@jalc.org.
Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts its second Listening Party of the 2010-11 season with alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa (rude-RESH mah-HAHN-tha-pa).
Rudresh Mahanthappa is often considered one of the most important Indian jazz musicians and composers of the new millennium. He is known for melding jazz with South Indian music.
He is the recipient of numerous commission grants and awards and is regarded as an innovative entity both as a composer and improviser.
Mahanthappa was named a Top 10 alto saxophonist in the 2008 DownBeat Critic’s Poll, the #2 jazz album of 2008 in The Village Voice’s Third Annual Jazz Critic’s Poll, Artist of the Year by the venerated All About Jazz-New York and one of Take Five’s Best Jazz CDs of 2008 on NPR Music.
Rudresh Mahanthappa will discuss his newest release, Apex (Pi Recordings), with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Ken Druker. This album, being released on the day of the Listening Party, is a blazing collaboration between Mahanthappa and fellow alto saxophonist Bunky Green that puts on display a fifty-year continuum of state-of-the-art saxophone playing. Featuring an all-star band of Jason Moran on piano, François Moutin on bass, and switching off on drums, Damion Reid and Jack DeJohnette, Apex shines a much-deserved spotlight on Bunky Green, a hugely influential but under-recognized original in jazz.
The listening party will take place Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 7 p.m. The next listening party occurs August 31, with pianist Vijay Iyer.
Contact www.jalc.org/listeningparty for additional information.
The Coca Cola Generations in Jazz Festival
The Coca-Cola Generations in Jazz Festival from September 6-October 10, 2010, features a full array of jazz performers from 15-92 years of age, a multi-generational exploration of the full spectrum of jazz tradition from Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Celebrating the great legends of jazz while seeking to create new ones, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola provides a happy home for musicians and listeners of all ages and backgrounds — all speaking a common language of swing.
“At Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, friends can gather together, enjoy a refreshing Coca-Cola and open happiness while listening to some of the best live jazz in the world,” said Beatriz Perez, Chief Marketing Officer, Coca-Cola North America. “Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola celebrates two things people love - music and ice cold Coke - while offering an uplifting combination of live performances, great dining and fun every day of the year.”
