National Jazz Museum in Harlem Events: April 13th – 18th
Event:
April 13th – 18th, 2009
National Jazz Museum in Harlem Events
New York, NY
· Harlem Speaks: Randy Weston
· Jazz for Curious Listeners: The Jazz World of Quincy Jones at Central Park
· Special Event: 50 Years of “Kind of Blue”—A Live Jazz Laboratory
Quincy Jones‘ music continues to be the focus as the NJMH All-Stars present a free concert of his music this week’s Jazz for Curious Listeners on Tuesday in Central Park – details below.
Thursday evening’s Harlem Speaks is one of the highlights of their entire year as they welcome the NEA Jazz Master/pianist/composer Randy Weston to the Visitors Center for an extended interview. You will not want to miss this rare opportunity to bask in the glow of a truly amazing and legendary artist.
They will end this week with yet another live performance, this time on the West Coast, as Jonathan Batiste leads a group of young musicians through an explorations of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue in a Special Event at Stanford University.
Lineup:
(1) Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Jazz for Curious Listeners
Quintessence: THE NJMH All-Stars Play Quincy Jones
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: NJMIH Visitors Center
(104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C)
FREE | For more information: (212) 348-8300 or register online
Join them at The Charles A. Dana Discovery Center at the Harlem Meer in Central Park to hear live music, as the National Jazz Museum in Harlem All-Stars play the music of Quincy Jones, the subject of this month’s Jazz for Curious Listeners series.
(2) Thursday, April 16, 2009
Harlem Speaks
Randy Weston, Pianist
6:30 – 8:30pm
Location: NJMIH Visitors Center
(104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C)
FREE | For more information: (212) 348-8300
Jazz and world-music pianist/composer Randy Weston boasts a range of musical influences. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he later lived in Africa for many years, both playing and studying African music. The result of his lifelong work and his far-reaching adventures is a beautiful and balanced hybrid of classic American jazz and ancient African rhythms and tonalities.
(3) Saturday, April 18, 2009
Special Event
50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory
8:00pm
Location: Kresge Auditorium
(Stanford University, 537 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 9430 | get directions
$34 (Adult), $17 (Stanford Student) | (650) 725-ARTS (2787) or order online.
Widely considered the greatest jazz album of all time, Miles Davis’ 1959 Kind of Blue is a cornerstone of “modal jazz”—an approach in which songs are based on modal scales in lieu of chord progressions. The record is also a marvel of performance “in the moment”: trumpeter Davis unveiled the musical outlines and improvising instructions for each of Kind of Blue’s all-new songs in the recording studio to his now-iconic roster of musicians.
In Addition:
Lecture/Film Screening: Loren Schoenberg, Director, National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Wallenberg Learning Theater
Thu, Apr 16, 2009 / 8:00 PM
Post-Performance Discussion with the artists moderated by Loren Schoenberg
Sat, Apr 18, 2009
Kresge Auditorium
Location:
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
104 East 126th Street
New York, NY 10035
(212) 348-8300
http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org
Related Posts
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem: December 2009 Schedule
- 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival: Sept. 18th-20th, 2009
- Shelia Anderson Presents Her Experience In Jazz At Harlem’s “Jazz For Curious Readers”
- Jazz Vibraphonist & Composer Stefon Harris To Play OCPAC 2 nights in April
- National Endowment For The Arts To Sponsor Annual NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony
