The Great Black Music Project, an archival system using the latest technological processes to be housed at the Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies(JHCCICS) and a virtual house on the world wide web - accessible globally by all interested. The capabilities of the project are vast enough to be a repository of both audio and video, recordings, photos, news clips, essays, critical review and thought - from the analog past to the digital future.
GBMP Archives: Shadow Vignettes - Honky Tonk Bud
Probably the only Jazz/Rap video ever done back in 1986 by Chicago Filmmaker Scott Laster, screenplay and performance by John Toles-Bey and music by Edward Wilkerson.
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TheMASSIVE Presents MACBETH: AS THE DUST SETTLES
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Kyle Vincent Terry
TheMASSIVE will be casting Actors, Dancers, and a Gospel Singer for its production of MACBETH.
Anthony Braxton Relaunches Tri-Centric Foundation Site
Anthony Braxton Relaunches Tri-Centric Foundation Site
Highly influential composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation recently launched the new and improved version of the organization's website. Active as of this month, tricentricfoundation.org has been recognized as one of the most comprehensive websites for any living American composer. New Braxton House Records, the online record label of the Tri-Centric Foundation, has released dozens of new album-length downloads and the 4-CD box set Trillium E (the first studio recording of one of Braxton's operas).
SPIRITS MASQUERADE AND DRUM SOCIETY CLASSES FOR CHILDREN
CALLING ALL YOUNG BROTHERS AGES 6-UP
TO COME LEARN ANCIENT AND CONTEMPORARY
AFRICAN MASQUERADE, ACROBAT, AND DRUM
ALL CLASSES ARE FREE FOR THE FIRST 3 MONTHS
Beloved jazz pianist Jodie Christian had exceptional ear for harmony
February 13, 2012|Howard Reich | Arts critic
Chicago pianist Jodie Christian accompanied the greatest artists in jazz, from Stan Getz to Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins to Benny Carter, Gene Ammons to Roscoe Mitchell.
Frank Russell CD Release and Birthday Celebration Wed., Feb. 22, 2012
Frank Russell CD Release and Birthday Celebration Wed., Feb. 22, 2012
Charles Heath presents Jazz’n on the South Side
Frank Russell " Circle Without End " CD Release
and Birthday Celebration!
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Doors: 6:00 pm
Show: 7:00 – 10:00 pm at
ETA Theatre
7558 S. Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL
(773) 752 – 3955
$10 cover
Timeless Gifts Perfoming Arts Mentoring Program
TIMELESS GIFTS
2012
mentoring program for the performing arts
Invites young performers to
PARTICIPATE
Don't miss this opportunity to be mentored by world-class professionals this summer!
WE OFFER
solo vocals - ensemble vocals - piano - guitar - dance - violin - bass - saxophone - drums and percussion - sound engineering - videography
6 week summer mentoring sessions
Von Freeman, NEA Jazz Master
The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the highest honor that our nation bestows on jazz artists. Each year since 1982, the program has elevated to its ranks a select number of living legends who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz.
Nicole Mitchell: Harriet Tubman - Flight to Freedom
Creative flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell performed her new orchestra work with the Chicago Composers Orchestra on December 7th, 2011, at Garfield Park Conservatory. With "Flight for Freedom for Creative Flute and Orchestra," Mitchell straddles contemporary classical music, jazz and creative music in ways she has never done before.
Upcoming Events
| Date | Musicians |
|---|---|
| 05/26/2012 - 7:00pm | Tammy McCann |
| 06/01/2012 - 8:00pm | Maggie Brown: Legacy: Our Wealth of Music 20th Anniversary |
| 06/08/2012 - 8:00pm | Jazz Cabaret: Joan Collaso : Tribute to Nancy Wilson and Shirley Horn |
| 06/24/2012 - 6:00am | Aaron Johnson |
| 08/25/2012 - 8:00pm | Tammy McCann |
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