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This interview/discussion series invites audiences to listen to new jazz albums, while also meeting and hearing from the artists who recorded them. Hosted by Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Ken Druker, these informal discussions are held in the Irene Diamond Education Center, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. The programs are videotaped and available later online at Education Events Online.
Listening Party with Rudresh Mahanthappa Free admission Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts its second Listening Party of the 2010-2011 season with alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa as he discusses 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 Rudresh and fellow altoist Bunky Green that puts on display a fifty-year continuum of state-of-the-art saxophone playing. Featuring the all-star band of Jason Moran on piano, François Moutin on bass and switching off on drums, the dynamic Damion Reid and the great Jack DeJohnette, Apex shines a much-deserved spotlight on Bunky Green, a hugely influential but under-recognized original in jazz. Mahanthappa, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, is widely recognized as one of the most important jazz musicians today. At 39 years old, he has perennially been on the Down Beat Critics Poll as alto saxophonist and composer and has been named Alto Saxophonist of the Year the last two years by the Jazz Journalist Association. His prior release Kinsmen (Pi 28), which masterfully combined jazz with South Indian music, was named the runner-up album of the year in the Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll in 2008 and was hailed as one of the top jazz albums of the year by numerous publications. View the Electronic Press Kit on YouTube. This event is free and seating is open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 6:30pm
Listening Party with Loren Schoenberg: The Savory Collection Free admission Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts its third Listening Party of the 2010-2011 season with Loren Schoenberg, Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem as he discusses and plays music from the recently-discovered Savory Collection with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Ken Druker. On August 19, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem announced the acquisition of this historic collection of never-before-heard recordings, including live performances of great jazz icons from 1935-1941. The collection of 975 aluminum and vinyl discs, over 100 hours of material, was created by William Savory, a recording engineer and Harvard-educated physicist. Savory worked as at a radio transcription service in New York between 1935 and 1941 and used the equipment his job afforded him to record hundreds of hours of material directly off the radio. The collection includes live performances by Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Fats Waller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and others. The quality of the discs is extraordinary for the time, as most jazz enthusiasts in the 1930s did not have the access to professional equipment that Savory enjoyed. Schoenberg discovered the collection after a 24 year cultivation that started with his meeting William Savory in 1980. Savory died in 2004 and Schoenberg acquired the discs in April, 2010 for the museum through Savory's heir, Eugene Desavouret. This event is free and seating is open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 6:30pm Past Listening Parties Include: Vijay Iyer: Coming Soon
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