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Quiana Lynell - Full Set | The OnBeat Sessions

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Samara Joy

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Samara Joy Samara Joy Whirlwind We first introduced our readers to jazz vocalist Samara Joy, who appeared on Bruce Harris’ Soundview, released just a few weeks ago.  Now Joy delivers her self-titled debut, after winning the Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Vocal Competition. Consider that past winners include the likes of Jazzmeia Horn and it harbingers great things to come for the 21-year-old…

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Subscribe to Jazz Night in America's YouTube channel for more jazz concerts and stories: https://n.pr/subscribetojazznight On July 8th at 10:30am EDT, join jazz vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and Jazz Night in America host and Grammy-winning bassist Christian McBride in a live chat room as we watch a performance from Horn’s Love and Liberation tour. The performance was recorded at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City just before the pandemic locked down America. Fans can say hello, ask questions or simply kick back and enjoy the show. As the winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition, singer and songwriter Jazzmeia Horn’s momentum has stopped for nothing, producing two full-length records and embedding herself into the A-list jazz touring circuit. Influences of her musical predecessors like vocalists Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughn can be heard in her scat-style singing and lyrical storytelling in her original songs. Head to the Jazz Night in America homepage for more episodes, including our weekly radio show, full-length concert films and short video documentaries.

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From Bowie to Benin

By Steve MacQueen, Artistic Director

Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen tours through his personal favorites of our upcoming season. Tickets on sale to the public Wednesday at 10 am. 

A season ends, a jazz festival happens, a few breaths are taken, then another season starts anew. Circle of life. But there’s no monotony—each one of these seasons differs from the other, or it would be a lot less fun than it is. And shows are unlike children, in that I can actually pick a few favorites, like these:

Jazz

The Flynn’s commitment to jazz has been going strong for 35 years. This year’s field includes two all-time greats and two of the best up-and-comers.

Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock are two of the most prominent, forward thinking and influential jazz musicians alive. Guitarist Metheny, a 20-time Grammy winner (!!), created a new realm of jazz guitar exploration through his incredible chops, imagination, and embrace of technology. Hancock may only have 10 Grammys, but by the time he was 25 he’d already changed jazz history with his role in Miles Davis’ second quartet and released two classic records under his own name. Since then, he’s pioneered the use of synths in jazz and recorded the first hip-hop jazz song (Rockit) while authoring an incredibly wide-ranging career in music. His Flynn show celebrates his funky side with a band of young guns. Both players are legends, deservedly so.

If the future of jazz is in the hands of FlynnSpace jazz artists Julian Lage (guitar) and Jazzmeia Horn (vocal), then the music is healthy indeed. Lage is 30 years old, but has been a professional for more than 20 years, seamlessly traversing the space from prodigy to adult. His speed and dexterity are unequalled, and he brings influences from all eras of jazz, as well as places outside (country, pop, rock, etc). Horn’s rise to the top tier of jazz singers is still in its early stages, but it feels inexorable given her talent and vision. Having won a pair of international vocal competitions with big names attached to them—Sarah Vaughn in 2013, Thelonious Monk in 2015—she is building momentum through fabulous performances, and is definitely here for the long-term.

David Bowie/Talking Heads The season features two remarkable reimaginings of seminal works: Talking Heads’ Remain in Light and David Bowie’s Blackstar, each explored and reinvented in a deeper, more interesting fashion than a mere regurgitation under the banner of “tribute.” I love David Bowie—we all do, right?—and I’ve been searching for a way to acknowledge his impact on music and culture since he passed away in 2016. But it’s tricky. With a creative force like Bowie, you can’t just have some singers sing his famous tunes in a revue; it’s disrespectful. Once I heard the 30-piece Ambient Orchestra, conducted by Evan Ziporyn, play Bowie’s final work, Blackstar, in its entirety, I knew I’d found a way. Blackstar is an absolute masterpiece, though devoid of hits. The great cellist Maya Beiser assumes the role of Bowie, playing the melodies with liberal use of effects pedals to create the requisite weirdness. The result: a lush, glorious interpretation of Bowie free of mimicry, and full of surprises. Magical and mind blowing.

Angélique Kidjo, a singer from Benin who lives in Brooklyn by way of Paris, performs a remarkable act of musical repatriation in her show. For their 1980 record Remain in Light, David Byrne and his Talking Heads cohorts explored African textures—particularly those of Nigeria’s Fela Kuti—through their own off kilter art-school perspective. It was African-influenced but certainly not African. Kidjo has given these songs the full polyrhythmic Afropop treatment, recreating them as music that is deeply, explosively and joyously African. It’s one of the best records of the year and if you’ve ever seen Ms. Kidjo perform (she was at the Flynn in 2011), you know that once she and her nine-piece band take the stage, they will indeed be “burning down the house” (yes, I know that song is on a different record).

Egypt The Flynn has brought international artists to the stage since its inception, and we’re not about to break with that tradition. This year, 13 countries are represented, but Egypt is highlighted with four very different performers.

Mohamed Abozekry first visited Burlington as part of the very successful Nile Project, a musical collaboration of country’s on the Nile basin. Now, this virtuosic oud player returns with his group, Karkade. Abozekry uses traditional Egyptian music as a source for his own compositions to create this beautiful acoustic music.

Vocalist/composer Dina El-Wedidi is a contemporary force, drawing on jazz, folk and alt-rock, as well as Egyptian music, to create a whole new sub-genre that has sprung up since the Tahrir Square Revolution. This performance with her seven-piece band marks the first collaboration between the Flynn and Higher Ground that will take place at HG.

Oud and electric guitar player Sam Shalabi—best known for his cryptic, experimental project the Shalabi Effect—is coming to FlynnSpace for the second of a two part series where we’ve asked musicians to compose new music for old films. Sam chose Herk Harvey’s classic creeper, Carnival of Souls (1962), and the show will surely be one not to miss.

And then there’s Bassem Youssef, “Egypt’s Jon Stewart,” a heart surgeon turned comedian/social satirist whose outspoken political humor was so on point that he was forced to flee Egypt under threat of arrest. Youssef will talk about these experiences, as well as his acclimation to the U.S. One of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World—and funny as hell—Youssef is not to be missed. Candoco/Bill Shannon

Thanks to outgoing Executive Director John Killacky, the Flynn has earned numerous grants to study the world of disability in the arts, and these grants have allowed us to present performances from these two very special performers.

England’s Candoco (as in, they’re a can-do company…can/DO/co) is one of the great disability dance groups in the world, an ensemble that commissions world class choreographers to create works that broaden audience perceptions about art and disability. Their stateside visits are few and far between and we are thrilled and honored to present Candoco at the Flynn.

Bill Shannon is an artist of many talents—video installation, wearable sculpture, group choreography—but he is also a dazzling solo dancer, using his crutches and hip-hop influences to create a new style of movement. At the Flynn, he’ll present his solo, Maker Moves, a clown piece that highlights his amazing movement vocabulary.

King Lear/The Peculiar Patriot

These two very different programs capture the range of dramatic work going on in FlynnSpace.

The Actors from the London Stage wowed everyone with their bravura production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream a few years back. This time, they’re assaying heavier fare—the Bard’s immortal tragedy, King Lear—but the same concept: five incredibly adept and well-trained British Shakesperean actors performing multiple characters with minimal props and no sets, putting the focus on the language. If you have even a passing interest in Shakespeare (and, really, who doesn’t?), you owe it to yourself to see this company bring the story and the language to life.

Then there’s Liza Jessie Peterson, whose one-woman show The Peculiar Patriot is a caustic, no-holds-barred, profane examination of our country’s appalling “Prison Pipeline,” which marks young black men for prison from an early age. Peterson drew on her two decades of working with teenagers at Rikers Island to create this staggeringly powerful, yet frequently quite funny, howl for justice.

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Inspired by Sarah Vaughn, Charenée Wade has grown to become a notable singer, composer, arranger and educator. A Master’s Degree graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Charenée has been featured in many configurations from jazz trios to Big Band to the Conservatory’s 100-piece Jazz Philharmonia Orchestra.

She has studied with Miles Griffith, Bob Stewart, Lenora Zenzailai Helm, Pamela Baskin-Watson, Carmen Lundy, and is currently studying with Peter Eldridge, Luciana  Souza, and Cecil Bridgewater. Ms. Wade has taught at New Orleans Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Jazz Camp at Loyola College, Brooklyn Charter School, Centrum Jazz Port-Townsend Workshop, and The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. She is currently a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music, City College, with the Jazzmobile Workshop program. She teaches various workshops and clinics and was an esteemed judge for the 2010 Jazzmobile Vocal Competition, alongside Dr. Billy Taylor and Grady Tate.

“Ms. Wade is a jazz singer of commanding skill, an heir to the legacies of Betty Carter and Carmen McRae.” – The New York Times

Arts Garage is located at 94 NE 2nd Ave in Delray Beach. Tickets are $30-$40-$45 at artsgarage.org or 561-450-6357. BRING YOUR OWN ... WHATEVER! The theater boasts cabaret-style table seating, where patrons can bring their own food and drinks, including alcohol. Music courtesy of KCC Productions.

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USA: NJCU ALUMNI JAZZ BIG BAND 100TH BIRTHDAY SALUTE TO ELLA, DIZZY, BUDDY AND MONK FEATURING JON FADDIS AND CYRILLE AIMÉE

NJCU ALUMNI JAZZ BIG BAND 100TH BIRTHDAY SALUTE TO ELLA, DIZZY, BUDDY AND MONK FEATURING JON FADDIS AND CYRILLE AIMÉE  Free Concert September 15 on Jersey City Waterfront   The NJCU Alumni Jazz Big Band will perform a 100th Birthday Salute to Four Jazz Icons, featuring the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, and Thelonious Monk on the J. Owen Grundy Pier, Exchange Place, in Jersey City on Friday, September 15 at 6:00 p.m. Conducted by recently retired NJCU Professor Richard Lowenthal, this free concert features the renowned trumpeter Jon Faddis and the acclaimed young jazz singer Cyrille Aimée. The fifth annual concert with the Alumni Jazz Big Band is a collaboration between New Jersey City University and the City of Jersey City, which recognizes the value of music and the arts for the people of the community. “NJCU is proud to partner with the City to present this special tribute to four remarkable jazz artists who all happened to have been born 100 years ago. Their artistry had a profound influence on the development of jazz and it is wonderful to bring everyone together to celebrate,” said University President Sue Henderson. “We are particularly pleased that Jon Faddis and Cyrille Aimée are able to share their talents with our music alumni, faculty and students.” One of the world’s most famous trumpet players, Jon Faddis was mentored by the great Dizzy Gillespie and is a long-time advocate of his music. As a performer and educator, he continues the jazz trumpet lineage going back to Louis Armstrong. Mr. Faddis was a guest artist at the first Alumni Jazz Big Band concert in 2013 as part of the celebration of Dr. Henderson’s inauguration as the University’s first woman president. French singer Cyrille Aimée has been making a name for herself since she burst onto the jazz scene some 10 years ago. She has won the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival Vocal Competition, the Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Vocal Competition, and was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition. She now tours internationally with her own band and as a duo with the renowned guitarist Diego Figueiredo. The NJCU Alumni Jazz Big Band features accomplished musicians who studied at the University as far back as the late 1960s, when Professor Richard Lowenthal started the jazz program.  Performing this year will be drummer Rich DeRosa (recipient of the 2014 NJCU Distinguished Alumni Award); sax players Mark Friedman, John DiSanto, Dave Nolan, Dustyn Richardson, and Dave Schumacher; trumpeters Marcell Bellinger, Vinnie Cutro, Nathan Eklund, and Freddie Hendrix; trombonists Rob Edwards, and Michael Modero; faculty members Allen Farnham on piano, Andy Eulau on bass, and Paul Robertson on percussion; former faculty member Peter McGuiness on trombone; and member of the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band, Doug Purviance, on trombone. Sponsors for the Fifth Annual NJCU Alumni Jazz Big Band Concert include: the NJCU Foundation, New Jersey City University, Arch Insurance, Inserra Supermarkets, Hampshire Companies, RBC Capital Markets, NJTV, BCB Community Bank, Cambridge Construction, Connell Foley, Crossroads Construction, Del-Sano Contracting, Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Tom and Anne Stanton, Mack-Cali, Avison-Young, Hyatt Regency of Jersey City, African-American Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, Hudson County Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey Jazz Society, WCTC, Hot House Jazz Magazine, and WBGO. The 100th Birthday Salute to Four Jazz Icons concert is free and open to the public. In the event of rain, the concert will be held in the Harborside Atrium, Harborside Plaza 2 and 3 at 34 Exchange Place. The J. Owen Grundy Pier is conveniently located near public transportation and there are parking lots in the area.  For more information, call 201-200-3426 or visit the NJCU website at www.njcu.edu/arts.  

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Editor’s Note: For more information, photographs or interviews, please contact either Ellen Wayman-Gordon or Don Jay Smith. Contact :      Ellen Wayman-Gordon  201-200-3426   ewaymangordo@njcu.edu         Don Jay Smith                                                          908-832-1020                                                             don@lksassociates.com    

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