Barry Harris and Regina Carter
Premiere New Works
• April 7 & 8, 2006 – Rose Theater
• April 8, 2006 – Violin Master Class with Regina Carter
New York, NY (March 9, 2006) This season, As of Now, a Jazz at Lincoln Center commissioning series, presents two incredible Detroit musicians, pianist Barry Harris, with violinist Regina Carter, on April 7 and 8, 2006 at 8:00pm in Rose Theater. Tickets to the world premieres of these shows are $30, $50, $75, $100 and $130, and are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th St., by calling CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500 or via
www.jalc.org.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s current season is entitled Jazz From Coast to Coast and features the major jazz cities, including Detroit. As a Motor City native, Ms. Carter explains, “With the rise of the auto industry and industrialization, Detroit offered a ‘better life’ for many, thus attracting an influx of people beginning in the 1920s from all over the globe. Of all the groups of people who seized the opportunities Detroit had to offer, the black migrants were forced to live in a predominantly African-American neighborhood known as ‘Black Bottom.’ The name of my commissioned piece is "Black Bottom" and it is my musical account of the stories I heard, along with some narration and spoken word, by another Detroit native, guest poet, Leslie Reese. I'm excited about premiering my piece as part of the ‘As of Now’ series and sharing the night with jazz master and fellow Detroit native, Barry Harris.”
“You don’t get much of a chance to get commissioned to do something,” Mr. Harris explains. I have been commissioned to play for Jazz at Lincoln Center. We don’t have enough of that…where they let you play your music in the concert hall. I just believe that I’m supposed to pass it along.”
This season's Jazz at Lincoln Center Master Class Series concludes with the Violin Master Class led by virtuoso Regina Carter. She will teach the art of jazz violin and her effortless swinging style on Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 2:00pm in the Irene Diamond Education Center at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Tickets are $10 and are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th St., by calling Center Charge at (212) 721-6500 or via
www.jalc.org. The Master Classes Series is a Jazz at Lincoln Center education program which allows audience members to get inside the hearts and minds of some of today's greatest jazz artists and find out how they make the music and magic that you love.
As of Now is a Jazz at Lincoln Center program which couples an established, legendary jazz composer with a younger, rising star. Each commissioned performer plays their own individual piece. Last season, the two musicians were Marcus Roberts and Jason Moran. Previous artists commissioned have included Toshiko Akiyoshi, Maria Schneider, Danilo Perez, Randy Weston, Eric Reed, Sam Rivers, Paquito D’Rivera, Nicholas Payton, Wallace Roney and Charles McPherson. As of Now began eight seasons ago at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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