Pizza With Jazz Stars...
Mar. 10th, 2006 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ocvictorIn her ongoing collaboration with composer Roland Davis, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
myainsel read again at Jordan Hall in Boston, before Roland's new composition, which featured Lincoln Center performer Ted Nash on saxophone.
Roland's work, as always, is innovative and powerful. He has a knack for cobbling odd influences and collaborations together to make something that's unique and provocative. I decided last night that he's a mad scientist, except with jazz. He seemed pleased with this idea. And Nash is something to behold when playing. Absolutely electrifying.
And then we all went to pizza. Because Pizzeria Uno is right across the street. I'm beginning to associate pizza with jazz, because every time we go down, that's where we end up. In addition to us, Nash, Roland and Roland's wife, we were joined by a group of Conservatory students and faculty, including one professor I seem to have made visibly uncomfortable by asking if there was a correlation between the rise of jazz improvisation among largely black artists and the lack of forums those artists had to express themselves otherwise -- a direct reaction against structure.
I didn't get much of an answer, but I think it's a subject I'm going to poke at some more. I need to learn more about jazz, as it's tied to poetry in so many places in the 20th Century. My criticial-analysis brain needs to understand the correlation between poetic movements and the rise of jazz, rock 'n' roll and hip-hop (and if anyone thinks it's too early to draw correlations about changes in poetic form and the rise of hip-hop, they're SO not paying attention.)
Alll and all, a thought provoking night, and a lot of fun. Much, much to ponder.
Andmyainsel rocks.
myainsel read again at Jordan Hall in Boston, before Roland's new composition, which featured Lincoln Center performer Ted Nash on saxophone.Roland's work, as always, is innovative and powerful. He has a knack for cobbling odd influences and collaborations together to make something that's unique and provocative. I decided last night that he's a mad scientist, except with jazz. He seemed pleased with this idea. And Nash is something to behold when playing. Absolutely electrifying.
And then we all went to pizza. Because Pizzeria Uno is right across the street. I'm beginning to associate pizza with jazz, because every time we go down, that's where we end up. In addition to us, Nash, Roland and Roland's wife, we were joined by a group of Conservatory students and faculty, including one professor I seem to have made visibly uncomfortable by asking if there was a correlation between the rise of jazz improvisation among largely black artists and the lack of forums those artists had to express themselves otherwise -- a direct reaction against structure.
I didn't get much of an answer, but I think it's a subject I'm going to poke at some more. I need to learn more about jazz, as it's tied to poetry in so many places in the 20th Century. My criticial-analysis brain needs to understand the correlation between poetic movements and the rise of jazz, rock 'n' roll and hip-hop (and if anyone thinks it's too early to draw correlations about changes in poetic form and the rise of hip-hop, they're SO not paying attention.)
Alll and all, a thought provoking night, and a lot of fun. Much, much to ponder.
And
myainsel rocks.
