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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