Geri Allen
The Gathering
Ray
Daybreak & Dreams
Angels
Pianist Geri Allen titled The Gathering in light of the CD s diverse breadth of players. Playwright August Wilson s musical director, Dwight Andrews, adds an array of flutes to several tracks. And percussionist Mino Cine.
more »lu brightens the rhythms as trumpeter Wallace Roney and trombonist Robin Eubanks play darker lines on the title track. Then Vernon Reid, famed for his hard-rocking guitar in the band Living Color, comes on board to add electric grit to Dark Prince and classical guitar-inflected warmth to Ray. Her esteemed guest players aside, Allen plays a robust piano, preferring the lower registers for their harmonic shades but also courting adventure with angular phrasing. Allen s compositions are each exciting, alternately sweet and inwardly complex showing more than a touch of Wayne Shorter s influence. Andrew Bartlett
Program #328 (May 23 at 8:00pm)
Versatile and sophisticated jazz guitarist Ron Jackson has performed, recorded and taught music in over 30 countries. With a varied career as a performer, composer and arranger, Highlights include shows and tours with artists such as Taj Mahal, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Oliver Lake, Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller. Ron has been featured as a leader in jazz festivals all over the world, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Jazz Festivals and Winter Jazzfest, NYC.
Born in the Philippines, lived in many states as a kid, then settled in Harvard, Massachusetts, west of Boston, Ron was initially influenced by rock guitar greats like Jimmy Page, before falling under the spell of jazz and following the style and career of jazz guitar luminaries like Pat Metheny and George Benson.
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September 19, 2019 Jazz Poetry concert with Oliver Lake and the OGJB Quartet. Photo by Renee Rosenteel.
Language, rhythm, and emotion are essential elements to both jazz and poetry. While poets use words to communicate and jazz musicians their instruments, both embody their message through performance.
The expressive nature of jazz and poetry is what led City of Asylum to pair the two together in its annual Jazz Poetry Festival. City of Asylum, a Pittsburgh-based non-profit, offers sanctuary to exiled writers from around the world and cultural programming for the local community. The Jazz Poetry Festival, which began in 2005, grew out of a one-day event that paired exiled Chinese poet Huang Xiang with saxophonist Oliver Lake. From that concert, City of Asylum’s Jazz Poetry Festival has grown into a month-long celebration and has received 13 grants from the Arts Endowment.