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| Chris Washburne's Rags and Roots: Album Release Celebration  Dear Friends,I am so excited to announce the release of my newest project Rags and Roots on ZOHO records. I hope you can make the New York City celebration on Wednesday May 11! Or for our upstate friends, Friday May 13 at Bard's Fisher Center! Details below! Chris Chris Washburne's Rags and Roots: Album Release Celebration with Evan Christopher (Clarinet), André Mehmari (Piano), Sarah Elizabeth Charles (Vocals) and Martina DaSilva (Vocals), Dominick Farinacci (Trumpet), Hans Glawischnig (Bass), and Robbie Ameen (Drums) Thursday, May 11 at 8:00 pm at Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street New York City 10001 Showtime: 8pm Tickets: $15 Chris Washburne's Rags and Roots celebrates the release of their debut recording on ZOHO Records. Developed through the Catskill Jazz Factory and making it's New York City debut, Rags and Roots is a bi-hemispheric ragtime revival, covering a century's worth of compositions from New Orleans, New York, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico and Brazil. By reimagining ragtime and the roots of jazz, Washburne has created a path for new audiences to discover this quintessentially American music. This album, his second ZOHO release after the critically acclaimed Low Ridin' of 2015, embraces and sounds out the remarkable cultural diversity that contributed to the emergence of jazz. The Catskill Jazz Factory presents: Celebrating 100 Years of Jazz with Chris Washburne's Rags and Roots and special guests Saturday, May 13, 20178:00pm 10:00pm Bard College Richard B. Fisher Center 60 Manor Avenue Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 Tickets & Info Trombonist Chris Washburne joined by Catskill Jazz Factory all-star musicians from Sao Paulo, New Orleans, Austria and beyond, explore one hundred years of Jazz across cultures, continents and generations. This retrospective addresses the international roots and influences from traditional folk songs to early American jazz pioneers such as Joplin, WC Handy, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. Following the world premiere and album recording of Ragtime & the Birth of Jazz, commissioned by the Catskill Jazz Factory in 2016, this ensemble reunites to celebrate and embolden audience's recognition of the jazz genre. Featuring a dynamic ensemble including Creole clarinetist Evan Christopher ("one of the world's major clarinetists, " Wall Street Journal); vocalists Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Martina DaSilva and Vuyo Sotashe; pianists André Mehmari and Dan Tepfer; trumpeter Dominick Farinacci; saxophonist Caleb Curtis; bassist Hans Glawischnig; and drummer Robby Ameen. Tickets from $25; individual benefit tickets to this concert are available for $100. PRE-CONCERT ARTIST TALK Looking Back: The Global Roots of Jazz Join bandleader, Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and the founder and director of Columbia's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program Chris Washburne for an illuminating pre-show discussion on the origins and various global roots of the jazz genre, from the early African-American to Caribbean and Latin American influences. The first review is in: CD Review: http://www.midwestrecord.com/MWR1210.html CHRIS WASHBURNE/Rags & Roots: The bone man blows your mind as he blows your ears open by surrounding himself with a killer array of modern jazzbos who all pull in the same direction when he reaches back to pull a piano out of a speakeasy whore house and relocates it to a whore house on Mars. Making classic rags modern and interspersing them with materiality of Washburne's making, this set colors outside the lines and invites you to take a wild ride along with it as the familiar gets turned on it's head in a most delightful fashion. A stomping good time, leave your inhibitions a the door and check in for a good time. Well done throughout. CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher Chris Washburne "Rags and Roots" (Zoho ZM 201701) Street Date: April 7, 2017 Chris Washburne trombone, vocals; Alphonso Horne trumpet, vocals; Evan Christopher clarinet, vocals; Andre Mehmari piano, vocals; Hans Glawischnig bass, vocals; Vince Cherico drums, vocals; Sarah Elizabeth Charles vocals # 1, 2, 7, 9, 12; Vuyo Sotashe vocals # 4, 11 write your comments about the article :: © 2017 Jazz News :: home page |