When Craig Harris exploded onto the jazz scene in 1976, he brought the
entire history of the jazz trombone with him. From the growling
gutbucket intensity of early New Orleans music through the refined,
articulate improvisation of the modern era set forth by J.J. Johnson,
into the confrontational expressionism of the '60s avant-garde, Craig
handled the total vernacular the way a skilled orator utilizes the
spoken word. He has performed with a veritable Who's Who of
progressive jazz's most important figures and his own projects display
both a unique sense of concept and a total command of the sweeping
expanse of musical expression. It is those two qualities that have
dominated Craig's forty years of activity, bringing him far beyond the
confines of the jazz world into the sphere of multimedia and
performance art as composer, performer, conceptualist, music curator,
and artistic director. Craig, who comes from a tradition of art as a
cultural facilitation to help promote change, has employed his musical
voice to comment on social injustice with projects including God's
Trombones, based on James Weldon Johnson's book of sermons; Souls
Within the Veil commemorating the centennial of W.E.B. DuBois's
seminal work; TriHarlenium, a sound portrait and 30-year musical time
capsule of Harlem; and Brown Butterfly, a tribute to the exquisite
movements of Muhammad Ali. Featuring: Craig Harris – trombone First
set: 12pm-12:45pm (15 min break); Second set: 1pm-1:45pm Artist :
Craig Harris
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