Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions

Conversations About Jazz 

Spotlights The Young Lions Revisited on August 6

Hammonds House Digital invites you to join us for Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions hosted by former jazz radio host and founder of Notorious Jazz, Carl Anthony. Every other Thursday, Carl takes audiences on a unique journey through the world of jazz music with artist talks, workshops, and listening sessions.

On August 6 Conversations about Jazz revisits the iconic album, The Young Lions, recorded in 1960 and featuring incredibly talented – yet largely unknown at the time – musicians including Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, and Bobby Timmons. For this program, Carl will be joined by trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, pianist Eric Reed and trumpeter Marcus Printup. They will discuss their journey in jazz, beginning with the moment Wynton Marsalis recruited them as young men to perform in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. It was through this relationship that they also became Young Lions.

This program is for the jazz novice and jazz head alike. It’s FREE, but you must register. To register click HERE.

Hammonds House Museum is generously supported by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, Fulton County Arts and Culture, the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, AT&T and WarnerMedia.

Hammonds House Museum’s mission is to celebrate and share the cultural diversity and important legacy of artists of African descent. The museum is the former residence of the late Dr. Otis Thrash Hammonds, a prominent Atlanta physician and a passionate arts patron. A 501(c)3 organization which opened in 1988, Hammonds House Museum boasts a permanent collection of more than 450 works including art by Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Hale Woodruff, Amalia Amaki, Radcliffe Bailey and Kojo Griffin. In addition to featuring art from their collection, the museum offers new exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, concerts, poetry readings, arts education programs, and other cultural events throughout the year.

Located in a beautiful Victorian home in Atlanta’s historic West End, Hammonds House Museum is a cultural treasure and a unique venue. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they continue to observe CDC guidelines, but look forward to welcoming in-person visitors soon!  For more information about upcoming virtual events, and to see how you can support their mission, visit their website: hammondshouse.org.

MEDIA: For more information, contact Karen Hatchett at Hatchett PR, karen@hatchettpr.com

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Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions

WABE’s City Lights With Lois Reitzes Interviews Carl Anthony

The Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta’s West End continues to offer rich content through its virtual programming. The latest addition to the museum’s arts and culture programming is “Conversations about Jazz and Other Distractions” with former jazz radio host and founder of Notorious Jazz, Carl Anthony.

This virtual, bi-monthly series is free and open to the public every other Thursday evening through December. Anthony will discuss the history of jazz, its involvement with protesting and racial justice, among other topics. He will also offer artist talks, workshops, and listening sessions. “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes spoke via Zoom with Hammonds House director Leatrice Ellzy and with Anthony about the upcoming conversations.

Anthony’s July 9 show looked at the tradition of protest in jazz and how contemporary jazz continues this practice.

When asked what Anthony believed was the future of jazz, he said, “The future is actually now. The streets have always been important to the sound of jazz. I think what is going on right now is going to be a platform for what’s to come. There’s a social consciousness right now that a lot of the musicians are taking into account as they perform because of what’s going on in regards to police violence, and Black Lives Matter, and the protester movements. A lot of the music that’s going to be created is going to have some element of social consciousness to it.”

Ellzy continued, “Jazz has always been a unifier. It provides us with a space that we can all come in and speak a common language and then from that space of commonality we’re able to branch off into our issues and talk about our issues and deal with our issues in a different kind of way.”

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