The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)

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The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a non-profit tax-exempt arts organization, is one of the oldest musicians associations in the United States. Since its founding in Chicago, Illinois in 1965, the organization’s members have developed a body of work that encompasses the spectrum of traditional and contemporary music.

The AACM New York Chapter, a non-profit tax-exempt entity was established in 1983. The New York Chapter functions as an ensemble of composers and performers whose mission is to present concerts that feature world premieres, which are composed by AACM members. To preserve the work of these great musicians, all AACM programs are documented for archival purposes.

AACM members who have been continuously featured in our programs include: Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Threadgill, Joseph Jarman, Thurman Barker, Frank Gordon, Adegoke Steve Colson, Iqua Colson, Amina Claudine Myers, George Lewis, Reggie Nicholson, Leonard Jones, Peggy Abrams, Richarda Abrams and posthumously Leroy Jenkins, Kalaparusha Ahra Difda, Lester Bowie, Steve McCall, Fred Anderson, John Stubblefield and Fred Hopkins.

The AACM is significantly unique in that it has nurtured and brought to fruition so many accomplished composers and performers. These artists have achieved influence across borders of musical genre and geography to play a critical role in the ever evolving process of contemporary music creation and its vital importance throughout the world.

For more information, please visit http://aacm-newyork.com/

UPCOMING EVENTS

december 2020

2dec7:00 pmHarlem Renaissance ManJack Johnson

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Harlem Renaissance Man

Jack Johnson

What is it that makes Jack Johnson a Harlem Renaissance man?

Join Robert O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Founder and Director of Columbia University’s Jazz Center for this series exploring the life of this trailblazer.

What kind of Harlem Renaissance man was this! Embarrassment to certain proper Black Americans, then and now, soaring hero to many others, Jack Johnson embodied an unruly black cosmopolitanism that helped define a Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s whose momentum extends into 2020 and beyond.

Many people living during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, including many Harlemites themselves of that era, never heard of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas—or any of that magical time’s leading literary/cultural lights. But the fame of John Arthur “Jack” Johnson (1878-1946) circled the globe. Readers and nonreaders alike throughout the Harlem and Southern Roads of the Black Diaspora, and far beyond, knew the name Jack Johnson, first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He was not your shy and modest champ, proving himself a credit to the race. Instead Mr. Jack was a dancing master and witty trash-talker inside the ring and out, playboy among the races, flamboyant lover of cars and clothes, international traveler daring white heavyweights (or anybody else) to take him on. Badman Jack whose knockout punches were heard around the world, who caused riots across the States. It took an act of Congress to curb (somewhat) the “unforgiveable blackness” of this Texas Jack, who set the stage for Muhammad Ali and for the highly political sports men and women of our time.

This presentation will review Johnson’s history as well as some of the many works of art it has inspired, particularly in painting and music. Highlights will include samples from Miles Davis’s “Tribute to Jack Johnson” and Wynton Marsalis’s soundtrack to the documentary about the boxer’s life.

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 7pm

For more information on this virtual event and how to register, please CLICK HERE

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