Seeing Jazz: A Tribute to the Masters and Pittsburgh Jazz Legends

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January 26* –April 3, 2009

Seeing Jazz: A Tribute to the Masters and Pittsburgh Jazz Legends

Reception: Thursday, February 5 from 6–9 p.m. including a special performance by the MCG Jazz Class of 2008 Legends and a book signing by "Pittsburgh Jazz" author John Brewer

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG) is collaborating with artist and curator Gwendolyn Black to present Seeing Jazz: a Tribute to the Masters and Pittsburgh Jazz Legends. The exhibition will showcase works by well-known masters along with some of today's noted contemporary artists, all of whom have inspired many through their artworks dedicated to jazz. Master artists include Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, Allen Stringfellow, Benny Andrews, Fred Brown, Richard Mayhew, Chuck Stewart and Edmund Yaghjian.Nearly ten years ago Gwendolyn Black created and introduced Visual Expressions on Jazz, which has been a recognized event for the past several years at the Annual JVC Jazz Festival in New York. To highlight Pittsburgh’s historic contributions to jazz, the exhibition will fittingly kick off a planned national tour starting at MCG in Pittsburgh’s North Side. Black’s motivation for organizing the exhibition is to “give more visibility to visual artists who not only listen to jazz music while working but who have also been at the forefront of documenting and supporting jazz music through their art.” When Seeing Jazz: a Tribute to the Masters arrives at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in January, the exhibition will coincide with the conclusion of the City’s 250th anniversary and will include a special focus on legends from the steel city including a slide show of Teenie Harris photographs from the Pittsburgh Courier archive.

*Please Excuse Us. Factors beyond our control have delayed the full installation of this exhibition a week from the originally scheduled opening date. We hope you’ll come back to see the show in its entirety after January 25, 2009 and join us for the reception that is free and open to the public.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is housed along with its sister organization, Bidwell Training Center, in a 62,000 square foot facility located at 1815 Metropolitan Street on Pittsburgh's North Shore. Hours of operation are 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. Designed by architect Tasso Katsalas, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild houses visual arts and recording studios, classrooms, galleries, a cafeteria, concert hall and conference rooms designed to showcase the roles of creativity and craftsmanship in learning. Natural light pouring in through windows and skylights, terracotta-toned masonry framing archways and circular portals evoke stylistic influences of indigenous African architecture. The building's sense of warmth permeates the organizations' work with the arts and career education. Handmade objects, furniture, photographs and paintings that adorn public and private spaces create a model environment for education, exhibitions, performances and social and professional gatherings.
How to get to Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Directions originating north of the city: From I-279 South follow signs towards Fort Pitt Bridge/Downtown and then to Ohio River Blvd Exit. Get in the lane for the West End Bridge and Chateau Street. Exit onto Chateau Street. Stay in the left hand lane and exit onto Beaver Avenue. Cross Beaver Avenue making immediate right onto North Franklin Street. Go one block to stop sign and turn right onto Metropolitan Street. Proceed through first stop sign. Enter MCG parking lot on your left.
Directions originating south and east of the city: Take the Parkway to North Shore, Fort Duquesne Bridge Exit. Cross the Fort Duquesne Bridge. Follow signs to Ohio River Blvd. Get in lane for West End Bridge. Exit onto Chateau Street. Turn left at Beaver Avenue Exit. Cross Beaver and make an immediate right onto North Franklin Street. Go one block. Turn right onto Metropolitan Street. Proceed straight through stop sign. Enter MCG parking lot on your left.
Directions originating west of the city: Cross West End Bridge then take Chateau Street Exit and follow Chateau. Turn left at the Beaver Ave Exit. Cross Beaver Avenue and take an immediate right onto North Franklin Street. Go one block. Turn right onto Metropolitan. Proceed straight through stop sign. Enter MCG parking lot on your left
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Art at the Montage Oct 24 2008

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Art at the Montage
201 Braddock Avenue
Point Breeze

Premiere Exhibit of Art, Poetry & Jazz
Friday, Oct. 24th 2008
8 pm - midnight

Jazz with Kenny Fisher & Co.
A Kuntu Poet Trio featuring Chawley Williams, Amir Rashidd, & Jonathan White
Exhibiting Artists:
Leslie Ansley, Ernest Bey, Emory Biko, Amir Rashidd,Saihou O. Njie & Sandy Simon

Tickets: $30 Single, $50 couples (Tixs are only $20 if you mention this email)
Includes buffet, wine and soft drinks.

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Jazz Bassist Henry Grimes Concert CMU Sept 15 2008

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from DJ Edgar Um:

Monday September 15th at Alumni Concert Hall in the College of Fine Arts
on the CMU campus tcrps productions, the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music and WRCT FM present legendary jazz bassist HENRY GRIMES in a solo concert. Henry Grimes will be performing solo bass, violin, poetry (from his recently published first volume of poetry, "Signs Along the Road") and spell-casting. Opening the concert will be solo performances by: BEN OPIE on reed instruments (of CMU School of Music, OPEK and Thoth Trio) MICHAEL JOHNSEN on his home-built analog electronic instruments. and bassist DAVID PELLOW (Director of Jazz Studies at CMU School of Music.) Doors open at 7pm. Concert begins at 7:30pm.Admission is $10 at the door. (There will be a reduced admission with current CMU ID.)

Admission is open to all ages. ALUMNI CONCERT HALL COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS (First Floor) CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY for more information: 412-519-4038 or edgarum@gmail.com

HENRY GRIMES bio: Master jazz musician and poet HENRY GRIMES has played almost 300 concerts in 23 countries (including many festivals) since May of '03, when he made his astonishing return to the music world after 35 years away. He was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended the Mastbaum School and Juilliard. In the '50's and '60's, he came up in the music in playing and touring with Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson and "Bullmoose" Jackson and "Little" Willie John and a number of other great R&B / soul musicians of that era; but drawn to jazz, he went on to play, tour, and record with many great jazz musicians of that era, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Rev. Frank Wright, and many more. But a trip to the West Coast to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in Los Angeles at the end of the '60's with a broken bass he couldn't pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world. Many years passed with nothing heard from him, as he lived in his tiny rented room in an S.R.O. hotel in downtown Los Angeles, working as a manual laborer, custodian, and maintenance man, and writing many volumes of handwritten poetry. Discovered there by a Georgia social worker and fan in 2002, Henry Grimes was given a bass by William Parker, and after only a few weeks of ferocious woodshedding, Henry made a triumphant return to New York City in May, '03 to play in the Vision Festival. Since then, often working as a leader, he has played, toured, and / or recorded with many of today's music heroes, such as Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Ted Curson, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Andrew Lamb, Joe Lovano, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Cecil Taylor, and many more. Henry has also given a number of workshops and master classes on major campuses, released several new recordings, made his professional debut on a second instrument, the violin, at the age of 70, has now published the first volume of his poetry, "Signs Along the Road," and has been creating illustrations to accompany his new recordings and publications. He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants and a grant from the Acadia Foundation. He can be heard on more than 80 recordings on various labels, including Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Recordings, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, and Verve. Henry Grimes now lives and teaches in New York City. <http://www.henrygrimes.com>. A few press quotes: Henry Grimes is a rare virtuoso without ostentation, an ideal ensemble player of counter-melodies and aggressive rhythms, with a big, true sound... a triumphant return for Grimes and a promise of brilliant music to come. -- John Litweiler, "Chicago Sun-Times" Tonally resplendent bass-playing ... perpetual-motion lines too fast, fleet and harmonically free-ranging to be easily notated. Grimes emerges a poet of his instrument. -- Howard Reich, "Chicago Tribune" If you haven't heard the fantastic news about Henry Grimes's return to the jazz world, I don't know what stone you've been sleeping under! He's been the talk of the town, and I don't just mean New York or Los Angeles, but the jazz community at large has been celebrating his recent rediscovery from not even having played for a good three decades. After a few gigs out West, he made his triumphant return to NYC and showed us all that he is back, and boy is he ever! His arco and pizzicato playing is like a resurrection for bass players the world over.... Welcome back, Mr. Grimes! -- Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor, "All About Jazz"/ New York Henry Grimes, who went from Sonny Rollins to Cecil Taylor to an absence of many decades, showed at the Vision Festival that he's lost none of the verve and technique that established him as one of the key bassists of the late '5Os and '6Os. -- Gary Giddins, "The Village Voice" Henry Grimes's fingers move fluidly about the bridge of the bass. His rapport with the musicians is confident as the band charts a course through some decidedly flexible musical space. His sound full and distinctive, Grimes reappears at a moment when the musical ideals of the free-jazz movement seem of renewed relevance. "Something happened," Grimes told me after the gig.... "Everything that I've strived for came true, with bigger implications for the future." -- Larry Blumenfeld, "The Village Voice" All night I was reading Henry's poems for his first published book, "Signs Along the Road," and I dozed off in my chair and had a dream about Henry. I was looking for a book in my apartment, and he said, "It isn't in there." "Where is it?" "It's underneath." "What? Underneath what?" "Down where things originate, where the formations are," he said matter-of-factly, as if he were telling me what to pick up at the store. "Where mythologies are created." -- musician / journalist / educator Dr. Marc Medwin ("Cadence," "Coda," "All About Jazz," etc.)
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The Trib's Scenes from the Arts-Burgh

The Trib covered recent music events (of particular note to me is the gypsy cafe jazz- gotta check that out).

Info here.

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Roger Humphries Jazz Downtown Pittsburgh Free! Tuesday April 22 2008 5pm Backstage Bar, Theater Square

A living Jazz legend from Pittsburgh, Roger Humphries, playing for free in downtown Pittsburgh? Leave it to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and sponsors BNY Mellon and MCAI (Multicultural Arts Initiative) to pull that feat off. Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 5pm Legendary Jazz percussionist Roger Humphries will play the Backstage Bar at Theater Square in the Cultural District of downtown Pittsburgh, PA. More event info can be found here . Roger will also be playing a free show in Bridgeville on May 18, info here. I mentioned Roger in my blog series "Daydreaming about Pittsburgh Art" here.

About Roger Humphries:

Roger is rated by music critics as one of the most exciting percussionists in the business. He has provided the rhythmic beat for such greats as Ray Charles, Horace Silver, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Stanley Turrentine, James Moody, and the list of great musicians goes on and on and on.
With various groups, Roger Humphries has performed at Carnegie Music Hall, the Village Gate and the Apollo Theatre in New York. He has also played at the Bohemian Caverns and Shelly Manne's Manhole in Los Angeles; the Penthouse in Seattle, Wash.; Pep's Lounge and Showboat, Philadelphia; the Jazz Workshop, Boston; Ronny Scott's in London, and many other places.

One of the most fascinating aspects of Roger's life is the number of extremely talented musicians he has had the opportunity to perform with. He has played with such well known jazz artists as: Lee Morgan, Grant Green, Billy Taylor, Bill Doggett, Benny Green, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry, J.J. Johnson, Billy Preston, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack McDuff, Gene Harris, George Harris, George Benson, John Faddis, Slide Hampton, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Mann, Randy Brecker, Joe Williams, Milt Jackson and Jimmy Witherspoon. In Pittsburgh, Roger has performed with Nathan Davis, Frank Cunimondo, Pete Henderson, Dwayne Dolphin, and all the other local greats too numerous to mention. Finally, we cannot forget his steady work with Horace Silver, Ray Charles, Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott. Even those with little knowledge of jazz can see the tremendous accomplishments of the musically boundless Humphries.

After playing with various groups around the country, ace drummer Roger Humphries decided to organize his own group in 1972 which he calls R H Factor and in 1996 he assembled Roger Humphries' Big Band.
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Sculptures and Statues of Pittsburgh Jazz Legends Look Out Along the Allegheny River

A first in a series of : Daydreaming About Pittsburgh Art from Rick Byerly

aka Daydreaming with sidecars of cynicism and plugs:

February 20, 2008: This is when the daydream about jazz musician statues and sculptures started, actually it was around 3 in the morning on February 21 after the total lunar eclipse had come and gone. I was doing long exposure photography on the shore of the Allegheny River near the Law Enforcement Memorial across from Heinz Field. Looking across the river to the fountain at Point State Park I imagined myself standing amidst all the immense jazz musician legends who have hailed from Pittsburgh, PA.

I guess if I was a huge sports fan I would be thinking about more sports legends from the region but we already have a decent number in that category in the Pittsburgh area with Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Honus Wagner, Franco Harris and The Chief. And in other genres and contexts we have statues/sculptures of (the first two being controversial to many) Stephen Foster, Christopher Columbus, Johann Sebastian Bach, William Shakespeare, Gene Kelly, Richard Caliguiri, George Washington, the Doughboy, Beethoven, Panthers and others I can't think of right now...

But can you believe that there are no major statues or sculptures of a Pittsburgh jazz musician? Unbelievable, I think. I found a link at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh here which listed as a starting point over 57 jazz musician legends from Pittsburgh and below that hundreds more jazz musicians and composers from Pittsburgh. And the ones I know as a big jazz fan being Ray Brown, Roy Eldridge, Roger Humphries, Slide Hampton, Stanley Turrentine, Erroll Garner, Billy Strayhorn, Billy Eckstein, Lena Horne, Earl Hines, Henry Mancini and one of my personal all time favorites, the great Art Blakey. And many others I'm sure I've heard but don't recognize by name ( the 57 the Carnegie Library list I have below after this post).

With their instruments in hand I can visualize them along the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, bringing attention to the rich musical history in the Pittsburgh area, making the area around it more personal amidst all the concrete we currently find. I was lucky enough to see and hear the great Ray Brown at Manchester Craftsmen Guild before he passed away in 2002 with my father and it's a great memory to have, for many reasons, as well as seeing Stanley Turrentine at MCG. This daydream of seeing Pittsburgh jazz legends is an ongoing one and one I hope to see step into reality...

I don't mean one or two large sculptures of pgh jazz legends I'm talking about 30 or so. All created by Pittsburgh artists.

As a cynical person I assume this type of large scale project would never actually happen but the daydreamer in me persists. Apparently there's good reason to be cynical. According to this February 5, 2008 article a moratorium has been placed by the Sports & Exhibition Authority as far as the total number of memorials which can exist in the North Shore Riverfront Park. In fact two 13-by-37-foot sculptures which used to be with the former Manchester Bridge now stand in limbo as far as a future home. I've never seen them but they supposedly commemorate steel and coal workers, explorers and American Indians.

So we will be seeing monuments to World War II veterans and the late children’s television host Fred Rogers but apparently it's kaput after that.

The reason for the moratorium? It appears that in the name of green space the Sports & Exhibition Authority feels it necessary to limit the memorials in the park. That brings up a compelling argument or discourse of sorts. The first thing which it brings to mind to me is what does green space have to do with the walkway which extends along the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers? I suppose the zoning board would rear it's ugly head and prohibit statues from being placed there. And then I think of the uneccessary amount of concrete wasteland which exists on the North Side along the stadiums and wonder how different it would be with a more logical and efficient use of parking space. Maybe then I could really stand among Pittsburgh Jazz Legends looking out towards the Point?

Let's hope that there's enough philanthropy, money, desire, and optimism to make it happen and reasonable public officials who could let it happen...

Rick Byerly is a cynic, daydreamer, writer, and photographer who loves and lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

Image above photographed, edited and for sale from Rick Byerly here. Credit to the creator of the Roberto Clemente statue, which is an incredible sculpture, goes to Artist Susan Wagner, website here .

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Note to self: Make sure to do a blog about all the Pittsburgh area statues, sculptures, and monuments along with their creators because googling for comprehensive info wasn't too productive. These are the things I personally want to know. History is important and very much subject to the angle it's being looked at and from.
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Here are the 57 plus named as jazz legends from the Carnegie Library

Internationally Known* Pittsburgh Jazz Musicians

Accordion: Guy Klucevsek

Bass: Mickey Bass, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Sonny Dallas, Dwayne Dolphin, John Heard, David Izenzon, Carl Pruitt, Wyatt Ruther, Eddie Safranski

Composers/Arrangers: Henry Mancini, Billy May, Sammy Nestico, Billy Strayhorn

Drums: Allen Blairman, Art Blakey, Cecil Brooks III, Kenny Clarke, Vinnie Colaiuta, Beaver Harris, Joe Harris, Roger Humphries, J. C. Moses, Jeff "Tain" Watts

Guitar: George Benson, Ray Crawford, Barry Galbraith, Jimmy Ponder, James "Blood" Ulmer

Piano/Organ/Keyboards: Geri Allen, Sonny Clark, Johnny Costa, Erroll Garner, Darrell Grant, Earl Hines, Ahmad Jamal, Dodo Marmarosa, Horace Parlan, Shirley Scott, Mary Lou Williams

Reeds (oboe, Eng. horn, clarinet, etc.)
Paul McCandless

Saxophone: Bob Cooper, Nathan Davis, Joe Eldridge, Steve Grossman, Eric Kloss, Babe Russin, Stanley Turrentine

Trombone: Slide Hampton, Grover Mitchell

Trumpet: Al Aarons, Roy Eldridge, Tommy Turrentine

Vibraphone: Steve Nelson

Vocals: Billy Eckstine, Lena Horne, Eddie Jefferson, Dakota Staton, Maxine Sullivan

Many more Pittsburgh native jazz musicians listed here

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Kente Arts Alliance presents A Tribute to Roy Eldridge, Kelly Strayhorn Theater April 19 2008

Honoring a jazz legend: The late, great Pittsburgh trumpet player Roy Eldridge...

Kente Arts Alliance presents A Tribute to Roy Eldridge

Featuring Steve Turre Quintet

Saturday, April 19 at 8:00 pm

http://www.kelly-strayhorn.org/schedule.htm

Kelly Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty, Phone: (412) 363-3000 5941 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 info@kelly-strayhorn.org

Tickets: $25 general admission in advance; $30 at the door; $20 (for groups of 15 or more - only in advance and through ProArts Tickets) Available: ProArts Tickets 412-394-3353 or www.proartstickets.org ; Dorsey's Records (Homewood); Paul's CDs (Bloomfield); Stedeford's (Northside)

One of the world's most preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and sea shellist, Steve Torre has consistently won both the Readers' and Critics' polls in JazzTimes, Downbeat, and Jazziz for best trombone and for best miscellaneous instrumentalist (shells). Roy Eldridge (1911 - 1989) aka "Little Jazz", was born and reared in Pittsburgh, and is considered one of the greatest trumpet players in jazz history. His range and rhythmic skill made him perhaps the finest trumpeter of the swing era of the 1930's. His sophisticated use of harmony resulted in him sometimes being seen as the link between Louis Armstrong-era swing music and Dizzy Gillespie-era bebop. The band will conduct a free Jazz Workshop for Youth at the theater, 2 -3 PM. For more information call 412-322-0292.

Also a good article on music promoter K. Mensah Wali by Pittsburgh Tribune Writer Bob Karlovits
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/s_560588.html

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Pittsburgh Jazz Pianist Craig Davis plays a free show at the Cabaret in Pittsburgh,Tuesday March 4 2008 5pm

Check out amazing jazz pianist Craig Davis, from Pittsburgh, on Tuesday March 4, 2008 at 5pm at the Cabaret Backstage Bar at Theater Square, Downtown Pittsburgh, Cultural District area.

No Cost!

Directions
The Backstage Bar at Theater Square is located at 655 Penn Avenue, between the O'Reilly Theater and Katz Plaza. Theater Square is the brick & blue building with the large television screen on the corner.
From the corner of the building under the screen, you can either go straight to enter through the Cabaret Theater doors on Penn Avenue, or simply pass the elevator shafts to walk down the path between the WQED Carol M. Byham Studio and Katz Plaza.

more info:

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