2008 Woodie Awards
Jazzing things up
University celebrates Black History Month with art exhibitions
Edward Pharr
The Daily Gamecock
Issue date: 2/19/08 Section: The Mix
"The Art of Jazz" will be celebrated this week at Carolina. The Black History Month event will include music, art, photography and poetry all related to jazz.
Jazz is a uniquely American genre of music that has had deep connections with visual and literary art from the beginning. Jazz players have collaborated with other artists to the point that "jazz" has become an important stylistic description in many non-musical art forms.
"The Art of Jazz" is a weeklong series that will include several events and performances that swing, shuffle and groove. Its intention is to celebrate and to raise awareness of jazz as an African-American and interdisciplinary art form that has had an important place in the history of art and literature and a rich verbal, visual and musical legacy.
The event is sponsored by the USC School of Music's Center for Southern African-American Music (CSAM), jazz studies department and the USC Arts Institute.
The series will bring together several different groups and departments at USC.
Today at 3:30 p.m. the first event, "Eye on Jazz: The Making of a Jazzbook," will be held in Gambrell Hall room 003. Discussion will be led by Professor Susan Hogue and Ryon Edwards of Riggs Design about the relationship between jazz and photography. USC Art Department students will present "art books" that capture their interactions with the local jazz scene.
Also today, at 6:30 p.m. in Black Box theater, Professor Kwame Dawes and USC English department students will discuss the historical importance and contemporary relevance of jazz to poetry.
Thursday at 2 p.m., acclaimed pianist Joe Sample will hold a masterclass at the School of Music Recital Hall. Sample will discuss his career, perform and give informal instruction to university and community students.
Friday night at 7, "The Art of Jazz: An Interdisciplinary Exhibition of Works" will showcase outstanding work from the week's events in an interdisciplinary exhibition designed by Professor Anita Easterling (UNC Charlotte) and USC theater department students in the Koger Center Lobby before the "Legends of Jazz Concert, featuring Joe Sample and Randy Crawford." The concert will start at 8 p.m. It will be presented by the Auntie Karen Foundation. The Legends of Jazz series brings a renowned jazz musician to Columbia each February to promote African-American music and arts entrepreneurship.
All events are free except the "Legends of Jazz Concert." Ticket prices for the concert are: $55 for Orchestra, $45 for Grand Tier, $35 for Balcony.
Jazz is a uniquely American genre of music that has had deep connections with visual and literary art from the beginning. Jazz players have collaborated with other artists to the point that "jazz" has become an important stylistic description in many non-musical art forms.
"The Art of Jazz" is a weeklong series that will include several events and performances that swing, shuffle and groove. Its intention is to celebrate and to raise awareness of jazz as an African-American and interdisciplinary art form that has had an important place in the history of art and literature and a rich verbal, visual and musical legacy.
The event is sponsored by the USC School of Music's Center for Southern African-American Music (CSAM), jazz studies department and the USC Arts Institute.
The series will bring together several different groups and departments at USC.
Today at 3:30 p.m. the first event, "Eye on Jazz: The Making of a Jazzbook," will be held in Gambrell Hall room 003. Discussion will be led by Professor Susan Hogue and Ryon Edwards of Riggs Design about the relationship between jazz and photography. USC Art Department students will present "art books" that capture their interactions with the local jazz scene.
Also today, at 6:30 p.m. in Black Box theater, Professor Kwame Dawes and USC English department students will discuss the historical importance and contemporary relevance of jazz to poetry.
Thursday at 2 p.m., acclaimed pianist Joe Sample will hold a masterclass at the School of Music Recital Hall. Sample will discuss his career, perform and give informal instruction to university and community students.
Friday night at 7, "The Art of Jazz: An Interdisciplinary Exhibition of Works" will showcase outstanding work from the week's events in an interdisciplinary exhibition designed by Professor Anita Easterling (UNC Charlotte) and USC theater department students in the Koger Center Lobby before the "Legends of Jazz Concert, featuring Joe Sample and Randy Crawford." The concert will start at 8 p.m. It will be presented by the Auntie Karen Foundation. The Legends of Jazz series brings a renowned jazz musician to Columbia each February to promote African-American music and arts entrepreneurship.
All events are free except the "Legends of Jazz Concert." Ticket prices for the concert are: $55 for Orchestra, $45 for Grand Tier, $35 for Balcony.
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