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| National Jazz Museum in Harlem June 2013 Schedule The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz's most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. May was an exciting month for us with the launch of our Parallax Conversation Series and two Harlem Speaks poetry slams! We continue with fresh programming this June as we draw inspiration from the current Gordon Parks exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem to bring you a series on polymaths in the jazz world and a blowout interactive concert at the end of the month! Harlem Speaks, our flagship public program of oral histories, is honored to have a true veteran of jazz, and one of its most in-demand sideman, multi-reedman Jerry Dodgion, who has performed and recorded with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Benny Carter, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, Marian McPartland among many others. This month's Jazz For Curious Listeners focuses on the Gordon Parks's of right now, meaning polymaths who are professional jazz musicians and then some. These Renaissance men and women also split their time as scientists, photographers, and -- in addition to making great contributions to the music we love. The sessions wrap up with Hank O'Neal discussing the extra-photography work of Gordon Parks- did you know he was also a prolific composer? This May the museum launched the new Parallax Conversation Series. Parallax is defined as "the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions." For this next installment of the Parallax Conversation series inspired by the "A Harlem Family 1967" Gordon Parks exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem, we are bringing two artists whose work centers on combatting negative portrayals of Harlem and African Americans. This month offers several opportunities for live music with our packed Harlem in the Himalayas series at the Rubin Museum of art with Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri, bassist Gary Peacock and pianist Marilyn Crispell and Norway's Christian Wallumrod Ensemble. Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Jazz for Curious Listeners Polymaths: ADEMOLA OLUGEBEFOLA 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (104 East 126th Street, Suite 2C) Donation Suggested | For more information: 212-348-8300 This month's Jazz For Curious Listeners are inspired by the "A Harlem Family 1967" Gordon Parks exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem. We are presenting four polymaths who lives have a significant intersection between jazz and other interests. Ademola Olugebefola is a renowned contemporary artist whose work has set standards of innovative excellence. Widely collected and published in hundreds of books, catalogs, magazines and newspapers, his work has also been featured in major museums, universities, galleries and on television in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and Japan. His paintings, graphics and mixed media work is shown extensively on the internet. Born in the US Virgin Islands and raised in New York City, Ademola has expanded his national exhibitions to New York State's mid Hudson Valley over the last few years. TransArt has presented his work in Newburg, Kingston and has presented his major 5 acre environmental art as part of Jazz In The Valley. In a career that spans three decades, Ademola feels these 5 acre environmental art installations Nature Symphony and MAMBO: A Tribute to Tito Puente, in concert with the music, is a portal to new spiritual and creative frontiers. Among a spectrum of recent art, culture and special projects activity, Albany International Airport hosted his paintings and a lecture as part of a landmark exhibition in October 2000. In June 2001 Poughkeepsie's Albert Shahinian Gallery presented Olugebefola and painter Helen Douglas in a critically acclaimed exhibition. Recent solo exhibitions and educational presentations include: IRADAC at City College; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY; CHI Gallery in Oakland, California; Rush Arts in Chelsea, NY; and recent group shows at Fire Patrol #5 Art and Gallery X in Harlem and Danny Simmon's Corrider Gallery in Brooklyn. And his most recent multimedia solo shows Blues And The Abstract Truth and Goddesses and Gurus: Earth, Wind and Fire April 2005 at Savacou Gallery in the east village, are highlights of his recent work over the last few years. Having just returned from Salvador, Bahia and Rio deJaniero Brazil in February 2005 Ademola will be seen as part of a Caribbean region PBS special documentary on similarities in Brazilian culture, the British and US Virgin Islands where he was born. Friday, June 7, 2013 Harlem in the Himalayas Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri 7:00pm Location: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street) $20/Door $18/Advance | For more information: rmanyc.org The album Transylvanian Concert marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat Maneri, in his 9th appearance for the label. Part of the ECM CD Release Concert Mini-Series Transylvanian Concert marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat Maneri, in his 9th appearance for the label. The album documents a spontaneously organized performance in Targu Mures, in the region where Lucian Ban grew up. A large, highly-attentive audience follows Ban and Maneri through a program of their self-penned ballads, blues, hymns and abstract improvisations, plus Mat's chilling solo performance of the spiritual "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen, " the whole informed by the twin traditions of jazz and European chamber music. Rain, drumming upon the stained-glass windows of the Culture Palace, offers occasional melancholy commentary. In all, a uniquely compelling set. Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Jazz for Curious Listeners Polymaths: Tom Artin 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (104 East 126th Street, Suite 2C) Donation Suggested | For more information: 212-348-8300 This month's Jazz For Curious Listeners are inspired by the "A Harlem Family 1967" Gordon Parks exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem. We are presenting four polymaths who lives have a significant intersection between jazz and other interests. Tom Artin was born in 1938 in Bloomington, Indiana, the youngest son of a prominent mathematician. In 1946, the family moved to Princeton, NJ, where his father joined the mathematics faculty of the University. In the heady academic atmosphere of this family, it was expected that he would pursue a similar career path. Following graduation from Princeton High School in 1956, he did in fact enter Princeton University as a freshman, and took a B.A. degree in English in 1960. He taught secondary school English for several years, before returning to Princeton to take a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, with a concentration in medieval literature. His first major teaching job after graduate school was at Swarthmore College, where he was a member of the English Department for four years. His primary field of expertise there was Chaucer, though he also taught a course in the theory of poetry. He continued his career in college teaching until 1979, the year he was granted tenure at SUNY Rockland Community College, when he resigned to take up a career as a full-time jazz trombonist. He continued to pursue his scholarly interests, which now included the operas of Richard Wagner. He wrote "The Wagner Complex, " which was published last year, joining several other scholarly books on his resume, along with "Earth Talk: Independent Voices on the Environment, " a journalistic report of the 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment. He has also published a volume of poetry: "Ephemera and Other Poems." Tom had begun playing jazz in Junior High School in a band organized by the now celebrated American composer John Harbison. When he was a sophomore in high school, he was recruited by an undergraduate jazz band at Princeton University, with which in the summer of 1955 he made a tour of Europe. Since then, he has played throughout the U.S. and Europe with a number of world renowned jazz groups including the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble (1981-84), the Louis Armstrong Alumni All-Stars, the World of Jelly Roll Morton, the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and Wild Bill Davison. He played lead trombone in Mel Tormé's big band, recorded live at Michael's Pub in New York, and has played with Bob Wilber's Benny Goodman revival big band. Festival credits include Kool Jazz in New York and Baltimore, the Illinois Jazz Festival, the North Carolina Jazz Festival, the Atlanta Jazz Party, the Guinness Jazz Festival in Ireland, the Floating Jazz Festival aboard the S.S. Norway, The Lugano Jazz Festival and the Ascona Jazz Festival, both in Switzerland. For about five years he was the house trombonist at Eddie Condon's in New York, having inherited the seat of his childhood idol, Vic Dickenson. In 1994, he performed at the White House for the annual Christmas Congressional Ball. In 1999, he appeared as guest artist at Rome's celebrated jazz club Alexanderplatz. Beginning in 2006, he has appeared regularly as guest artist with John Harbison at the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival. He has played on movie and television soundtracks, and appears on numerous recordings. Another childhood passion that Tom took up again professionally in later years was photography. His subjects range from landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes to portraits, florals and still lifes. He also does a significant amount of commercial photography for both print and the web. Artin began taking, developing and printing images in the early 1950s. The majority of Artin’s photographs originate as medium format images shot on film with vintage Rolleiflexes write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |