HARLEM IN THE HIMALAYAS Featured at NJMH, 3/29 - 4/2

The NJMH will be covering both coasts this week as Directors Christian McBride and Loren Schoenberg do extensive programming in and around Stanford University and Palo Alto, Ca., and in New York, we offer Tuesday evening our final March class on Art Blakey (an evening of film) and on Friday night, pianist/composer Jason Lindner is joined by tablaist Suphala for an intriguing Harlem in the Himalayas concert.  For more information, visit: http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/.

This weeks schedule is as follows:

Monday, March 29, 2010
8:00 pm
Jazz/Tech Talks Vol 3: Jazz: The First Century with Loren Schoenberg

Loren Schoenberg, director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, continues this season's jazz lecture/demonstration series with a wide-open conversation spanning a century of jazz history, from Art Tatum, Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington, to John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder. Schoenberg is joined by New York musicians Dominick Farinacci, trumpet and Dan Kaufman, piano, along with Stanford Jazz Orchestra member Roddy Galli, drums. Schoenberg and friends perform musical selections, screen film clips, and invite the audience into a conversation about jazz' lasting impact as an American cultural treasure.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
6:00 pm
Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) at Finn Center
230 San Antonio Circle
Mountain View, CA 94040 
 
 The Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) at Finn Center in Mountain View will present Loren Schoenberg of Jazz Museum in Harlem & Gunn High School Jazz Ensemble on Tuesday, March 30 at 6 pm as part of its Stanford Lively Arts Informace Series at CSMA. Loren Schoenberg, conductor, saxophonist, educator and director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, will share his encyclopedic knowledge and passion for jazz, its history and music. Joined by teh 18 member Gunn High School Jazz Emsenble, Schoenberg and the students will entertain and enlighten attendees about all-things jazz. Now in its 12th season, this free educational series offers audience members the opportunity to meet world-class visiting artists, hear excerpts from their Stanford Lively Arts program, and learn about their careers and ideas on music and the arts in an informal, intimate setting.

 Jazz for Curious Listeners
The Big Beat:
Art Blakey  FILM NIGHT
7:00 - 8:30pm
Location: NJMH Visitors Center
 
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A TRIBUTE TO HERBIE HANCOCK: CHRISTIAN McBRIDE AND FRIENDS
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | 8:00 pm
Stanford University's Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Stanford Lively Arts Presents "A Tribute to Herbie Hancock" Starring Christian McBride Concert curated by National Jazz Museum in Harlem will feature Hancock veterans Bennie Maupin, Eddie Henderson, Billy Hart, and others Bass phenom and National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) co-director Christian McBride performs a tribute to the music of living-legend jazz composer/keyboardist Herbie Hancock in a concert presented by Stanford Lively Arts on Wednesday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m. at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. McBride will lead his all-star band--including saxophonist Bennie Maupin (a member of Hancock's celebrated Headhunters and Mwandishi ensembles of the 1970s), trumpeter Eddie Henderson (Mwandishi veteran), drummer Billy Hart (another Mwandishi veteran), trombonist Michael Dease, and keyboardist Geoffrey Keezer--through Hancock's incredible body of work and will also perform many of his own original compositions inspired by Hancock's Mwandishi-era music. The concert is the culmination of a season of free public programs on jazz and technology, and a continuation of Lively Arts' collaboration with NJMH and Stanford Jazz Workshop. In the days leading up to the performance, Jazz Museum co-director Loren Schoenberg will lead a free Jazz/Tech Talk on Monday March 29 at 8:00 p.m. at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Schoenberg will also give a free "Informance" performance and discussion, on Tuesday, March 30 at 6:00 p.m. at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View.

Friday, April 2, 2010
Harlem in the Himalayas
Jason Lindner/Suphala
7:00pm
Location: Rubin Museum of Art

Pianist JasonLindner grew up in Brooklyn, NY, started playing piano by ear at age 2 and was playing jazz proficiently at 15. He apprenticed with master bebopper Barry Harris and the mystic master Chris Anderson (Herbie Hancock's harmonic guru), and worked as a journeyman with Junior Mance, Tardo Hammer, Harold Danko, Frank Hewitt and Jaki Bayard before exploring a world of Latin and African rhythms, Funk, R&B, Hip Hop, Electronica, and even Rock. He's been a fixture in the New York jazz scene since the mid-90s when the well-respected Greenwich Village club, Smalls, became home for a new generation of forward-thinking jazz musicians. There he lEd Smaller ensembles and then a big band; Lindner regularly drew sold out crowds on Monday nights at Smalls, earning him an Impulse records debut on Jazz Underground/Live At Smalls, which led to a full-length release on Chick Corea's Stretch label, Premonition.

He frequently performs in New York and around the world with Claudia Acuña, Meshell Ndegeocello, Baba Isreal, Dafnis Prieto, Omer Avital, Anat Cohen, Luisito Quintero, Malika Zarra, Juancho Herrera, and with his own groups the Ab Aetero, Now vs. Now, Progress Report, the JL-ECTRIK, Big Pump and the Jason Lindner Big Band, now celebrating its 12th year. He has also recorded with (and served as Musical Director for) Lauryn Hill and Amel Larrieux, toured with Roy Haynes, performed with and arranged for Arturo O'Farrill's Grammy-winning Jazz at Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Orchestra, and shared both stage and studio with Chick Corea, Junior Cook, Elvin Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D'Rivera, Jon Hendricks, James Moody, Graciella (Machito Orchestra), Mark Turner, Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Cobb, Lou Donaldson, The Henry Mancini Orchestra, Mark Turner, Christian McBride, Vernel Fournier, and other artists. Jason Lindner also teaches internationally.