GARY HARRIS

An Atlanta native, Gary has been playing saxophone for over 20 years. In that time he has opened for artist like Gerald Albright and Will Downing,performed with legends William Bell and Jean Carne and can be heard and seen on projects with Outkast and Ann Nesby.

He plays smooth jazz with a funky edge and nice easy to remember melodies. Although Gary has been compared to artist like Gerald Albright and Wilton Felder,he has his own style that is easy to recognize and equally loved.

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Daily Dose Of Jazz…

Joseph William Thomas was born on December 3, 1902 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His first professional gig was in his home city with trombone player Joe Harris in 1923. Soon after that, he worked with Jack Carey, Chris Kelly, and Kid Rena. He recorded with Charles Derbigny in 1941, but the recordings were not publicly released until the 1960s, by which time Thomas had become a figure in the Dixieland revival movement.

He led his own ensemble at New Orleans’s H&J Tavern for much of the 1940s, then in 1951, he became a sideman for Papa Celestin. He worked with this ensemble for years, including after Papa French and Eddie Pierson had taken over as leader.

Other associations in the 1950s and 1960s included work with Freddie Kohlman, Punch Miller, the Olympia Brass Band, and on Swedish television with Sweet Emma Barrett in 1968. In the 1970s he worked with the Legends of Jazz, replacing Joe Darensbourg.

Clarinetist and vocalist Joe Thomas, also known as Brother Cornbread and was closely associated with the New Orleans jazz scene, February 18, 1981 in New Orleans at 78.

GRIOTS GALLERY

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LENORA HELM HAMMONDS

New England Symphonic Ensemble

Guest Conductor: Lenora Helm Hammonds ~ Department Chair & Director of Graduate Programs, Jazz, at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.

She will be conducting commissioned arrangements for jazz choir and jazz chamber orchestra of Hale Smith’s The Valley Wind and John Coltrane’s A Conversation with God (Based on Coltrane’s Dear Lord) | Lyricist: Lenora Zenzalai Helm | Arranger ~ Maurice Myers & Lenora Zenzalai Helm

Hammonds will be joined by Jillian Harrison-Jones, Lorissa Mason, and Anne Lyman, Conductors

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LISA HILTON

Award-winning composer and critically acclaimed pianist Lisa Hilton comes to Weill Recital Hall accompanied by her quartet for an evening that features uplifting new music from the group’s latest release, Coincidental Moment. A prolific composer inspired by the soundscape of jazz and blues, Hilton will share stories behind the creative process from the stage.

The Lisa Hilton Quartet
~Lisa Hilton, Piano
~ Igmar Thomas, Trumpet
~ Luques Curtis, Bass
~ Rudy Royston, Drums

Tickets have $9.00 fee

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JASON MORAN

James Reese Europe and the Harlem Hellfighters: From the Dancehall to the Battlefield
Jason Moran is one of jazz and modern American music’s most engaging and historically attuned artists. With a 10-piece expansion of his renowned Bandwagon trio, Moran celebrates the foundational, history-changing artistry of James Reese Europe—who brought the first taste of jazz not only to Carnegie Hall in 1912, but also to France during WWI, where he toured and fought with his 369th Infantry Regiment, the Harlem Hellfighters. “It’s a concert that dives into the emotion of [Europe’s] music,” says Moran. “It’s not a museum piece—it’s a meditation … I’m thankful for his compositions, but even more for his imagination of what America can be.”

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