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About two jazz artists are invited each year by Harvard’s Learning from Performers series. Bloom, Harvard’s 2004-05 Kayden Visiting Artist, will be returning to Cambridge on Dec. 11, to perform with the Harvard Jazz Bands in a concert honoring Steve Lacy, the late tenor saxophonist...
Everett invited Bloom to Harvard because he wanted the members of the Jazz Bands to think more about movement. He explains that jazz had its origins in dance during the big band era, and that Bloom combines traditional features of jazz, like improvisation, with movement...
Everett started the Harvard Jazz Band program in 1971, a time when fusion jazz was favored over the traditional jazz of the 1930s. He was surprised that Harvard did not have an organized jazz band, and believed that jazz had a great social, economic, as well as music influence on American culture. He emphasized that improvisation is what unites all of jazz and that it is a “point of personality or vocabulary...
...They’re creating a language,” says Monday Jazz Band alto saxophonist Marcus G. Miller ’08 after the demonstration, voicing this reoccurring metaphor for improvisation. “I hear music, in general as a language. I can listen to sounds of the world and hear it. Composition is defined as sounds arranged by people, but everywhere sounds are arranged...
Sanders Theater will be hot with the cool music of jazz sensation Jane Monheit. Monheit, discovered in 1998 at the age of 20, has reached a level of international success in the past six years that she will share with a Harvard crowd for one night only. Instrumentalists Miles Okazaki on the saxophone, Michael Kanan on the piano, Orlando LaFleming on the bass, and Rick Montalbano on the drums will accompany Ms. Monheit during the two-hour exhibition. Tickets $22.50 and $27.50, available at the Harvard Box Office. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater...