Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Townsend says that jazz lends itself very easily to working for public service organizations and raising social consciousness...
...Jazz has always been associated with Black consciousness," Townsend says. "Jazz was one way to express their problems with society. One of the reasons that musicians get involved with jazz is because it [jazz] goes beyond the music, it has often had social implications...
Social issues including concern for the homeless and the hungry has drawn well-known personalities including author Alice Walker and jazz musician Don Braden '85 to serve as masters of ceremonies for the Jazz for Life concert since the event's inception six years...
...concert tonight is distinguished by the fact that it will mark a special sort of homecoming for Jacquet because it is here that he found the inspiration to start the big band which plays on "Jacquet's Got It". Through the efforts of the Harvard Jazz Band and the Office for the Arts, Jacquet appeared as a part of the the Learning From Performers series...
...Jazz percussionist Joyce Kouffman brought Jacquet here again in 1983 and 1984 as an Artist-in-Residence. Jacquet performed with the Harvard Jazz Band in 1987 at the band's 15th reunion concert...