New York Youth Symphony's Jazz Band Classic: Jazz Meets the East
Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space (2537 Broadway New York City, NY 10025)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Jazz Meets the East have expired.
The last date listed for Jazz Meets the East was Saturday March 17, 2012 / 7:30pm.
Currently at Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space:
Seeing Jazz With George Wein: Saxophonist Miguel Zenón
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
The innovator and impresario behind many of the world's great jazz festivals -- including Newport and New Orleans -- George Wine created this series at Symphony Space to share his knowledge and love of music and to bring leading artists to the stage for an in-depth discussion and short performance set. For this edition, Wine welcomes multiple Grammy nominee and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón, a ground-breaking saxophonist and composer, who's pioneering a new blend between Latin American folk music and jazz. Learn More
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Train station close by and parking was good
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Casual
2 Goldstar Member Reviews
DEE
Great venue...it has a resturant with reasonably price food and drinks. Wonderful food and I loved the apple martini! Great concert loved the music. Will return when I travel to NYC again.Written on Apr 16 2012
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The young musicians were excellent performers.... they were "TIGHT". I would definitely see them again, and tell others about. Bravo!!!Written on Mar 20 2012
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More Information About Jazz Meets the East
Website
http://www.nyys.org/performances/jbc49_2.php
Description
So much for Donny McCaslin's "traditional" credentials, which provide the anchor for his much-admired work in more adventurous realms. Chief among these is the pianoless quartet Lan Xang (which evolved from an experimental partnership with fellow New York saxist David Binney) and the quintet led by the widely lionized trumpeter Dave Douglas, who added McCaslin to his band in 2005. Reviewing the Douglas Quintet in Jazz Times, Josef Woodard wrote of McCaslin: "He's a versatile player who moves easily between inside and outside musical zones . . . [T]here's a fluidity and grace to his playing even when he's pushing at envelopes."
Thanks to the high profile of the Dave Douglas Quintet, McCaslin in the last two years has achieved wider praise for the incisive twists and purposeful turns of his emotionally charged solos. But those qualities – along with his sometimes startling virtuosity, and his distinctive voice as a composer – had actually been on display for much of the previous decade, during which McCaslin proved himself a valued sideman on recordings by Danilo Perez, Luciana Souza, and performances with Tom Harrell, Brian Blade, John Pattitucci, The Mingus Band, and Pat Metheny. Meanwhile, the previous albums under his own name have shown him subtly incorporating elements of Latin American music within adventurous jazz frameworks.
In 2006, McCaslin received a Doris Duke grant for new jazz composition from Chamber Music America; In Pursuit comprises the results of that work.
About the Ticket Supplier: New York Youth Symphony
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