Afro-Travel: The Music of Yosvany Terry

30mar7:00 pmAfro-Travel: The Music of Yosvany Terry

Event Details

 

The concert featuring Yosvany Terry that the Center for Jazz Studies will present this month will emphasize Terry as a jazz-idiom composer—i.e. one whose written compositions include spaces open for improvisation. Through this music itself as well as through the composer’s spoken announcements preceding each musical piece, Terry and his quintet will concentrate on the African Diasporic travels and geographies informing their work. A native Cuban who now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts (where he teaches at Harvard), Terry is a world traveler who (on the road and through the media) consciously absorbs a wide variety of black musical influences (among many others). He induces each geographical/cultural influence “to undergo a kind of chemical change,” as he puts it, as he builds a cosmopolitan musical vocabulary that is all his own. This concert will offer the Columbia community an evening of very alluring music by a rising young composer whose eloquence concerning his musical travels is very great.

 

Friday, March 30, 2018   7pm

NEW VENUE 

Miller Theater

2960 Broadway at West 116th Street

New York, NY 10027

This event is free and open to the Public but a rsvp is required.

Please email columbiajazzstudies@gmail.com to secure your seat.

 

Time

(Friday) 7:00 pm

Location

Miller Theater