Tag: jazz

  • Nation & World

    Finally, taking a bow

    Many in jazz circles knew music of these four women, but Radcliffe fellow wants to make sure the rest of us do too.

    4 minutes
    Maxine Sullivan.
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    Now that she has the floor

    Tap dancer Ayodele Casel swings into the spotlight — and brings her predecessors with her.

    5 minutes
    Ayodele Casel dancing.
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    Remembering a jazz great

    Some of the biggest names in jazz will convene for this weekend’s festival in honor of the pianist and composer.

    4 minutes
    Geri Allen.
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    Wynton Marsalis makes a return engagement

    Wynton Marsalis shares the stage with President Drew Faust to celebrate the release of his video, based on a lecture series he started at Harvard in 2011.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard jazz leader, amid his Cuban roots

    Harvard jazz leader and instructor Yosvany Terry returns to his musical roots in Cuba, where his destiny was formed.

    5 minutes
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    A Cuba-Harvard connection, with a beat

    The Harvard Jazz Bands make and learn music, absorb culture on summer tour of Cuba.

    15 minutes
    The National Folkloric Company of Cuba performs in the Tata Güines museum courtyard.
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    Esperanza Spalding, Claire Chase join music faculty

    Grammy-winning jazz star Esperanza Spalding and flutist Claire Chase will be Harvard professors starting in the 2017-2018 academic year.

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    Trumpeting women in jazz

    Some inroads finally may be happening for women in jazz, which traditionally has been a man’s musical world.

    6 minutes
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    The sweep of jazz history

    Pianist and composer Randy Weston visits campus on the eve of Harvard acquiring his personal archive.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard and Berklee to offer dual degree

    Harvard University and Berklee College of Music announced a dual degree program that will let students earn a bachelor of arts degree at Harvard and a master’s degree at Berklee in five years.

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    Radio heads

    A dedicated group of students work hard to make WHRB, Harvard’s 24-hour radio station, run 365 days a year.

    5 minutes
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    The ace of bass

    Noted jazzman Rufus Reid is teaching Harvard students, and will share his wisdom and musicianship with the public. There will be two events open to the public — on April 6 and 9.

    4 minutes
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    Jazz made visible

    “The Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes” explores the interaction between jazz and the visual arts.

    5 minutes
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    Spring events preview: What to experience this season

    Get out your calendars — here are the must-see events at Harvard this spring.

    6 minutes
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    Field notes gathered by ear

    Grammy-nominated saxophonist Yosvany Terry is bringing the music of his native Cuba to campus as a senior lecturer and leader of the Harvard Jazz Ensembles.

    4 minutes
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    A movie as a mirror

    Three young Harvard alumni explain the genesis and the process of their making the hit film “Whiplash.”

    4 minutes
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    Harmony and humanity

    Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock begins his post as the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard with some wisdom from Miles Davis. Hancock’s next lecture, “Breaking the Rules” will take place Feb. 12.

    7 minutes
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    Trumpet and coffee in hand

    Capping his lauded Harvard lectureship, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” musician Wynton Marsalis visited the Phillips Brooks House for an intimate conversation about his hometown of New Orleans.

    3 minutes
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    The music that didn’t stop

    Wynton Marsalis and an all-star ensemble gave a capacity crowd at Sanders Theater a musical history of the roots of jazz in New Orleans.

    7 minutes
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    Marsalis to conclude lecture-performance series

    Wynton Marsalis will conclude his six-lecture series at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 30. Tickets, which are free, will be available for the Harvard community on Jan. 28 and the public on Jan. 29.

    4 minutes
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    The jazz orchestra, brick by brick

    Jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra treated a Sanders Theatre audience to a master class Thursday evening that re-created a pivotal quarter century of jazz innovation.

    4 minutes
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    A professorship and a MacArthur

    Jazz musician and composer Vijay Iyer, who won a MacArthur Foundation grant, in January will become the first Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts in Harvard’s Department of Music.

    5 minutes
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    Wynton Marsalis to continue lecture-performance series

    Wynton Marsalis will continue his lecture series this month, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Sanders Theatre on Sept. 26.

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    Jazz as conversation

    Artist and composer Wynton Marsalis returned to Sanders Theatre for his fourth lecture-performance at Harvard, an exploration of the strange alchemy of instinct, expertise, and empathy that jazz musicians need to “play and stay together.”

    5 minutes
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    James Wood’s lighter side

    James Wood, Harvard professor and New Yorker critic, talked to the Gazette about his new book, “The Fun Stuff,” losing himself in music, and a looser approach to fiction.

    8 minutes
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    Tom Everett to retire from Harvard

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard’s Department of Music announced that Thomas G. Everett, director of Harvard Bands since 1971, will retire Feb. 15. His Harvard career will be celebrated in various ways at the University, including a Jazz Bands concert dedicated to him on April 13 at 8 p.m. in Sanders…

    4 minutes
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    When jazz was king

    Three local jazz figures came to Harvard to explore their passion for the music and its future as a singular American art form.

    5 minutes
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    A work supreme

    During a lecture that is part of a series of master classes sponsored by Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard Professor Ingrid Monson explored the genius behind John Coltrane’s 1965 jazz album “A Love Supreme.”

    4 minutes
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    Notes on music’s lessons

    At Harvard as part of an ongoing lecture and performance series, musician and composer Wynton Marsalis met with the Harvard community for two far-reaching discussions in which music and the arts played seminal roles.

    5 minutes
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    The melding of American music

    Backed by an all-star band, Wynton Marsalis explored the “mulatto identity of our national music” with a rollicking performance and a thoughtful lecture on America’s porous tuneful genres at Sanders Theatre Feb. 6.

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