Dahi Divine Quintet at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

This year The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents its New Music for New York concert series and once again welcomes the participation of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The series comprises four evenings of adventurous contemporary music, with premieres each night. Jazz at Lincoln Center has selected up-and-coming jazz composer Dahi Divine, whose concerts emphasize original work to present one world premiere on July 12th!

Jazz Concert I: Dahi Divine Quintet

Dahi Divine, tenor saxophone; Albert Baliwas, alto saxophone; Theo Hill, piano; Zwelakhe-Duma F. Bell le Pere, bass; Khary Shaheed, drums....

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This year The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents its New Music for New York concert series and once again welcomes the participation of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The series comprises four evenings of adventurous contemporary music, with premieres each night. Jazz at Lincoln Center has selected up-and-coming jazz composer Dahi Divine, whose concerts emphasize original work to present one world premiere on July 12th!

Jazz Concert I: Dahi Divine Quintet

Dahi Divine, tenor saxophone; Albert Baliwas, alto saxophone; Theo Hill, piano; Zwelakhe-Duma F. Bell le Pere, bass; Khary Shaheed, drums.

Dahi Divine is a tenor saxophonist, composer, and band leader, the latest in an illustrious lineage of jazz artists from Philadelphia. His first album, The Element, released in April 2015, signals the arrival of an artist remarkably well-versed in the modern jazz idiom and whose command of his craft displays virtuosity, eloquence, and maturity.

His Summergarden program features the premiere of "Victims to Vanity", a piece he wrote in tribute to his brother Gahib Divine, who died in street violence in Philadelphia in 2011. Divine writes, “My brother’s death made me realize how my focus on success, acceptance by others and public appearances, and what I thought were problems—seemed superficial and misplaced, and at the end of the day meant nothing. What I needed was to be around family and the people I cared for the most. This song emerged as a vehicle for healing.”

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