Craig Harris And Tailgaters Tales at An Die Musik Live

Calvin Jones, bass
Tony Lewis, drums
Jay Rodriguez, saxophone
Craig Harris, trombone

Join us for a special performance by the world-renowned trombonist and composer Craig Harris, who for three decades has shared his distinctive talent and taken on the African-American music vocabulary with a global audience. A born collaborator, Craig has created and performed with such edgy, progressive jazz luminaries as Sun Ra, Sam Rivers, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor Muhal Richard Abrams, Oliver Lake, David Murray, and many more. Performing with his special TAILGATERS TALES ensemble, this meaty-toned trombonist will satiate your musical hunger. ...

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Calvin Jones, bass
Tony Lewis, drums
Jay Rodriguez, saxophone
Craig Harris, trombone

Join us for a special performance by the world-renowned trombonist and composer Craig Harris, who for three decades has shared his distinctive talent and taken on the African-American music vocabulary with a global audience. A born collaborator, Craig has created and performed with such edgy, progressive jazz luminaries as Sun Ra, Sam Rivers, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor Muhal Richard Abrams, Oliver Lake, David Murray, and many more. Performing with his special TAILGATERS TALES ensemble, this meaty-toned trombonist will satiate your musical hunger.

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 past twenty 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, curator and artistic director.

Tickets: $25 in advance/$28 at door/$10 full-time student with ID

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