2012
May 2012
Wednesday 9 May 2012
Wed 9 May, 7 pm. 1395 Lexington Avenue, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, New York, 10128. 212-415-5500. 92nd Street Y - [email][events]
This enthralling new listening- and discussion-oriented seminar takes a chronological and thematic approach to developing a love and working knowledge of jazz, America’s great indigenous art form. Each session will focus on a specific style and the artists who helped invent and define it. The new and curious listener emerges with a “sound” basis in jazz and its many improvisatory permutations. 1 Session: $25 Brief Biography Oliver Trager is the author of three books on jazz and American music. He studied with two of jazz’s unheralded modern figures: Bill Dixon and Milford Graves.
First Class: The Birth of Jazz-Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong
Date: Wed, May 9, 2012, 7 pm
Venue: Classroom
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
Event Code: TW12S61170