How Milford Graves Reawakened the Spirit of the Drum
How Milford Graves Reawakened the Spirit of the Drum
Late percussionist s radical approach galvanized everyone from Lou Reed to Albert Ayler, and built a bridge between music and the healing arts
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In September of 2008, an unusual performance took place at downtown New York club Le Poisson Rouge. At stage right, opposite fellow six-string adventurer Marc Ribot, sat Lou Reed, conjuring clouds of free-rock energy from his guitar. Behind them, avant-garde mainstay John Zorn sent forth piercing, impassioned blasts of alto sax. And at the center of it all, churning with the fury of a whirlpool and dancing across his hand-painted drum kit with the control and flair of a flamenco master, was Milford Graves the percussionist, healer, and interdisciplinary seeker who Zorn had once called “basically a 20th-century shaman,” and who died on Friday at 79 after a battle with amyloid cardi
College benefit concert traces 100-plus years of Jewish music
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
Posted Feb 11, 2021
Pianist Anna Keiserman and saxophonist Paul Cohen will present Jewish Legacy XX online 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, from Raritan Valley Community College s Edward Nash Theatre in Branchburg.raritanval.edu
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Raritan Valley Community College’s Arts and Design department will present the virtual concert “Jewish Legacy XX: A Musical Project by Paul Cohen and Anna Keiserman,” streaming live 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, from the Branchburg campus’ Edward Nash Theatre.
The program is the latest in a series launched to help defray the cost of private instructional lessons for RVCC music majors and is part of the department’s MOZAIKA concert series, created to promote multicultural dialogue through the performance of music from the classical canon through the 21st century.
• Oct 8, 2020
Drive-ins have been popping up all over the country during the coronavirus pandemic. But few are right in the middle of a city, next to a highway and skyscrapers.
It s a warm fall evening in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Hundreds of us are parked in the middle of a gravel lot. This the home of the pop-up Newark Moonlight Cinema, which opened in July and celebrates Black filmmakers and actors. A DJ plays music before the show. People get out of their cars to dance wearing masks and staying apart.
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