-- New York’s Longest Running Jazz Concert Series
– concludes its 43rd Season with
Jazz, Past & Present,
a historic double bill featuring NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston with Billy Harper performing The Roots of the Blues and Highlights In Jazz New Stars Benny Benack, Steven Frieder, Dylan Meek, Devin Starks & Kosta Galanopoulos plus a very special surprise guest.
at Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, N.Y., NY 10007
Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz, New York’s longest running jazz concert series, concludes its 43rd season on Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 8:00 PM in the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, NY, 10007 with Jazz Past & Present, a multi-generational double bill featuring the incomparable duo of, pianist Randy Weston and tenor saxophonist Billy Harper, performing a program including selections from their critically acclaimed album The Roots of the Blues. Sharing the bill with NEA Jazz Master Weston, who celebrated his 89th birthday in April, will be the Highlights In Jazz New Stars, a youthful quintet of twenty-somethings assembled by Kleinsinger himself to feature some of his favorite up and coming young jazz players – saxophonist Steven Frieder, trumpeter/vocalist Benny Benack, pianist Dylan Meek, bassist Devin Starks and drummer Kosta Galanopoulos.
Making his first Highlights In Jazz appearance, NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston embodies the history of jazz past and present in his uniquely original playing -- from the swing of Duke Ellington to the bop of Thelonious and onward with his own perennially modern music. A tireless proponent of the African roots of jazz, his sound is steeped deep in the blues, as evident in his latest critically acclaimed Sunnyside recording The Roots of the Blues, which features his partner on the program, veteran tenor saxophonist Billy Harper. The album, which is comprised of a baker’s dozen of piano/saxophones duets ranging from jazz classics like “Take The A Train,” “Body and Soul” and “How High The Moon” to Weston’s own engaging originals such as “Blues To Africa” and “Berkshire Blues” has been hailed by Downbeat for its “intimacy and warmth.” Weston says of Harper, with whom he has played for more than 40 years, “Billy is a great blues player. When he plays the tenor it’s like an orchestra.” Together the pair will bring the history of jazz to life.
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