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The Colorado State University School of Music, Theatre and Dance is putting on “Machinal,” a play by Sophie Treadwell, April 21-23 and 27-30 at the University Center for the Arts. Sophie Treadwell’s “Machinal” is a fascinating and thought-provoking exploration of the themes of gender, society and power. Ad
Mentors & Protégés Share
KUVO JAZZ has celebrated Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April for years, with a different musical “them e” each year. The 2021 theme is “Mentors and Protégés.”
Such a pair were the pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, who together in the 1940’s staked out the playing field for their instrument in what was known as modern jazz. Jazz View, New York Times
Indeed, the art form of jazz (nay, the entire practice of music) depends on the ancient master-to-student conveyance of the disciplines, tips, tricks, theory, and attitude to truly learn the secret, coded language. (Many have been self-taught, but no artist gets very far without confronting the masters’ work in front of them.)
Mentors and Protégés Share
KUVO JAZZ has celebrated Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April for years, with a different musical “them e” each year. The 2021 theme is “Mentors and Protégés.”
In life, trumpeter
Woody Shaw and saxophonist
Dexter Gordon – two instrumental giants of the jazz idiom – were often connected. They both lived in Europe, (Gordon for 14 years in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and Shaw briefly in 1964), they were friends and frequent collaborators, and their respective recording careers were re-fashioned at Columbia Records by producer Michael Cuscuna. In 2013, Maxine and her son Woody Shaw III founded The Dexter Gordon Society, a nonprofit cultural organization created to preserve, document, and present their collective life’s work.