Jack Johnson Festival with the Wynton Marsalis Septet
Friday-Saturday, November 12-13, 2004, 8pm
Rose Theater
Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts a screening of excerpts from a new film, "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson", by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (PBS January 2005). In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first African-American to claim the boxing heavyweight crown. He was also flamboyantly defiant of any attempts to curtail his pursuits of liberty in this post-Civil War, pre-Civil Rights era. This defiance cost him his title, and for a time, his country. Project collaborator Wynton Marsalis joins Burns in a rousing discussion of this champion boxer, author, patent-holding inventor, and aspiring bass player. The Wynton Marsalis Septet performs music from the soundtrack to round out a knockout evening!
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