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| Fred Hersch Returns to Perform in “Jazz at the Maverick” Series with Jane Ira Bloom on July 30 Maverick Concerts, the oldest continuous summer chamber music festival in America, celebrates the start of its second century of Music in the Woods this year. Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, Fred Hersch, a popular favorite with Maverick audiences, returns to the Maverick Concert Hall stage to perform with soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom on Saturday, July 30. Date and Time: Saturday, July 30, 8 pm Location: 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock, NY 12498 Tickets: www.maverickconcerts.org or call 800.595.4849 Artists: Fred Hersch (jazz piano) and Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone) Musical Program: Duo jazz performance • Jazz at the Maverick series An eight-time Grammy nominee, jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch is one of the most creative improvisers in contemporary jazz. In a career spanning more than three decades, he has shaped the course of jazz as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator and recording artist. Vanity Fair proclaimed Hersch "the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade, " and jazz pianist Jason Moran said, "Fred at the piano is like LeBron James on the basketball court. He's perfection." In 2016, he received Jazz Pianist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Associations and the Doris Duke Artist award, the two most recent of many honors of distinction. For the past two decades, as a passionate spokesman and fundraiser for AIDS services and education agencies, Hersch's efforts have raised more than $300, 000. His memoir, Good Things Happen Slowly (Crown Books/Random House), will be published in 2017. He is currently a member of the Jazz Studies faculty of Rutgers University, and has previously taught at New England Conservatory, The Juilliard School, The New School and The Manhattan School of Music. Over the past 35 years, Jane Ira Bloom's body of musical works has marked her as an American original. She is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz, and possesses, per Pulse, "one of the most gorgeous tones and hauntingly lyrical ballad conceptions of any soprano saxophonist." She has collaborated with numerous outstanding jazz musicians, including Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Rufus Reid, Billy Hart and Hersch, and performed at many of the world's most prestigious venues. Bloom has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, held a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, earned nine Jazz Journalists Awards for soprano sax of the year, and is a professor at the New School's College of the Performing Arts School of Jazz in NYC. Nat Hentoff dubbed her an artist "beyond category, " and Bill Milkowski called her "a true jazz original … a restlessly creative spirit, and a modern day role model for any aspiring musician who dares to follow his or her own vision." The Bloom Festival, a new jazz festival in Brooklyn that features cutting edge women artists, was named to honor her. She is the first musician commissioned by the NASA Art Program, and an asteroid was named for her by the International Astronomical Union (asteroid 6083janeirabloom). This duo concert is the fourth of five performances in the Jazz at the Maverick series, which continues through August 13. Upcoming concerts for the week of August 6-7 feature two performances by Imani Winds in the New Century, New Voices series – a Saturday morning Young People's Concert and a 4 pm Sunday concert – and, on Saturday evening, a solo piano benefit performance for Maverick Concerts by Simone Dinnerstein. Details are below. Saturday, August 6, 11 am Young People's Concert New Century, New Voices IV Imani Winds Admission is free for all young people under 16. Adults pay $5 each. Saturday, August 6, 6 pm Simone Dinnerstein, piano A Benefit Performance for Maverick Concerts Music by J.S. Bach • Music by Philip Glass: from Etudes (2005), and Metamorphosis (2006) • Schubert: Sonata in B-flat major, D.960; Selections from the Op. 142 Impromptus Reserved seats are $65, General Admission $35. Regular Maverick tickets from ticket books are not valid for this event and there is no "Rock Bottom" seating. Sunday, August 7, 4 pm Imani Winds New Century, New Voices V Jeff Scott: Startin' Sumthin' Frederic Rzewski: Sometimes (2015) Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Jonathan Russell: Suite from Scheherazade John Cage: Music for Wind Instruments (1938) Maurice Ravel, arr. Mason Jones: Suite from Le Tombeau de Couperin Fred Hersch photo: Martin Zeman Jane Ira Bloom Photo Kelly Davidson About Maverick Concerts Built by hand in 1916 and situated amid the dappled shade of the Catskill woodland, the Maverick Concert Hall and grounds are listed on the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places. Internationally acclaimed musicians return year after year to perform in Maverick's "music chapel, " a concert hall that is renowned for its sublime acoustics. The barn-like wooden structure has been restored and updated, and in May 2016, Maverick Concerts received an award for Excellence in Historic Preservation from the Preservation League of New York State. It is a magical space that embraces the audience and immerses listeners in the most beautiful music in the world. The afternoon light filters through panels of diamond-shaped windows as birdsong and the occasional cloudburst create a benign and blissful counterpoint to the glorious music making. Maverick Concerts, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Concerts are made possible in part with an award from the National Endowment for the Arts; funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the Maverick Concerts Endowment Fund; Friends of Maverick; the towns of Woodstock and Hurley; local businesses; individual donors; and other public and private foundations. Yamaha is the official piano of Maverick Concerts. The Disklavier C7X grand piano appears through the generosity of Yamaha Artist Services. write your comments about the article :: © 2016 Jazz News :: home page |