BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Demco Software//Event Management System//EN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20220930T145114Z DTSTAMP:20220930T145114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T192939Z DESCRIPTION:Join us as we take a look at black history through the lens of jazz with author and editor of the Jersey Jazz magazine\, Sanford Josephson.Check out an article \;Josephson \;wrote this month on page 5 of the Jersey Jazz titled "Remembering Jazz’s Black Expatriates\," he gives more detail on what will be covered during this exciting presentation!Registration recommended but not required. \; Please register here or call 732-634-4450.Find out more about what will be covered below!Harlem\nRenaissance\n\nA look at the music scene in\nHarlem in the 1920s\, led by African-American jazz giants such Louis Armstrong\,\nDuke Ellington\, Bessie Smith\, and Fats Waller. Harlem’s nightlife was defined\nby four institutions that served as the crucible for the new form of jazz that\nwould flourish in the next decades:\n\nThe rent parties\, which not only provided\nHarlemites with a way to meet their monthly expenses but cultivated a style of\npiano music known as stride\, which would bridge the divide between the ragtime\ntradition of the early 1900s and the emerging modern jazz piano approach.The Cotton Club\, known as the “aristocrat of\nHarlem”\, offering upscale entertainment to white customers only.Connie’s Inn\, the swankiest of Harlem nightclubsThe Savoy Ballroom\, where the swing movement was\nconceived and born.Road\nWarriorsA look at the cruel\ntreatment that African-Americans received on the road\, especially during the\n'30s-50s. For example\, alto saxophonist Earle Warren\nwould use his light complexion to pass as white so he could go into a\nrestaurant and take out food for his fellow band members. Trumpeter Howard McGhee was the only black\nmember of Charlie Barnet's band in the '30s. At one hotel\, he arrived to find\nthat there was no reservation for him and he wasn't allowed to stay there.\nWhile the rest of the band checked in and went to sleep\, he was left on his own\nto roam the streets\, searching for accommodations.The Cab Calloway band would lease a Pullman\ncar\, and the band members would sleep on the train because it was so hard to\nfind hotel rooms for Black musicians.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExpatriates\n\nIn the years following World\nWar II\, a several African-American jazz musicians emigrated to Europe\, motivated\nby the relative lack of racism\, the working opportunities\, and the appreciation\nthat European audiences showed for their art. Jazz greats such as \;tenor saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Ben Webster\nand pianist Bud Powell spent long periods of time on the European\ncontinent and made many recordings there. \n\nResistance\nto Racism\n\nIn 1935\, Benny Goodman hired Black pianist\nTeddy Wilson to be part of his trio\, which also included the white drummer Gene\nKrupa. Soon after that\, the trio was expanded to a quartet with the addition of\nanother African-American musician\, vibraphonist Lionel HamptonIn 1949\, the mixed-race aspect of trumpeter\nMiles Davis’ Birth of the Cool nonet was groundbreaking. In the words of\njazz writer Stanley Crouch: “Close collaboration of the sort [Miles] Davis and\nJohn Lewis had with Gerry Mulligan\, Gil Evans\, and Johnny Carisi had not\nhappened before.”In the 1950s\, pianist Dave Brubeck refused to\ncave in when some college deans\, primarily in the South\, requested that his\nAfrican-American bassist Eugene Wright not perform at campus concerts. Brubeck\nalso turned down a 1958 tour in South Africa rather than sign a contract\nspecifying that his band would be all white.Sanford Josephson\nis the author of Jeru’s Journey: The Life\nand Music of Gerry Mulligan (Hal Leonard Books)\, published in October 2015\,\nand Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the\nGenerations (Praeger/ABC-Clio)\, published in June 2009. He is currently\nEditor of Jersey Jazz Magazine\, published by the New Jersey Jazz\nSociety.\n\nHe has also written extensively about jazz musicians in\npublications ranging from the New York\nDaily News to American Way magazine\nand is Vice President of Publicity for NJJS.\n\nJosephson currently co-hosts the Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon\nconcert series at the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts in Toms River\,\nNJ. From 2011-2017\, he curated the “Music in the Moonlight” jazz series at the\nLuna Stage in West Orange\, NJ\, a series that he founded. Josephson also\nproduced the Flemington\, NJ\, segment of the Central Jersey Jazz Festival from\n2014-2016. He also teaches online courses on “Giants of Jazz” for Rutgers’\nOsher Lifelong Learning Institute. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us as we take a look at black history through the lens of jazz with author and editor of the Jersey Jazz magazine\, Sanford Josephson.
Check out an article \;Josephson \;wrote this month on page 5 of the Jersey Jazz titled "Remembering Jazz’s Black Expatriates\," he gives more detail on what will be covered during this exciting presentation!
Registration recommended but not required. \; Please register here or call 732-634-4450.
Find out more about what will be covered below!
Harlem\nRenaissance
A look at the music scene in\nHarlem in the 1920s\, led by African-American jazz giants such Louis Armstrong\,\nDuke Ellington\, Bessie Smith\, and Fats Waller. Harlem’s nightlife was defined\nby four institutions that served as the crucible for the new form of jazz that\nwould flourish in the next decades:
Expatriates
In the years following World\nWar II\, a several African-American jazz musicians emigrated to Europe\, motivated\nby the relative lack of racism\, the working opportunities\, and the appreciation\nthat European audiences showed for their art. Jazz greats such as \;tenor saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Ben Webster\nand pianist Bud Powell spent long periods of time on the European\ncontinent and made many recordings there.
Resistance\nto Racism
Sanford Josephson\nis the author of Jeru’s Journey: The Life\nand Music of Gerry Mulligan (Hal Leonard Books)\, published in October 2015\,\nand Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the\nGenerations (Praeger/ABC-Clio)\, published in June 2009. He is currently\nEditor of Jersey Jazz Magazine\, published by the New Jersey Jazz\nSociety.
\n\nHe has also written extensively about jazz musicians in\npublications ranging from the New York\nDaily News to American Way magazine\nand is Vice President of Publicity for NJJS.
\n\nJosephson currently co-hosts the Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon\nconcert series at the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts in Toms River\,\nNJ. From 2011-2017\, he curated the “Music in the Moonlight” jazz series at the\nLuna Stage in West Orange\, NJ\, a series that he founded. Josephson also\nproduced the Flemington\, NJ\, segment of the Central Jersey Jazz Festival from\n2014-2016. He also teaches online courses on “Giants of Jazz” for Rutgers’\nOsher Lifelong Learning Institute.