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Impulse Records at 50 at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Where
Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle (60th Street And Broadway)
New York, NY
Map
212-258-9800
When
Sat, October 29, 2011
8:00 p.m.
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Musicians
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When Impulse Records began in the early 1960s, John Coltrane was its most important artist. His bassist Reggie Workman honors Coltrane's legacy with Reggie Workman’s African-American Legacy Project, conducted by Charles Tolliver and featuring pianist Stanley Cowell, in a re-creation of the legendary album Africa Brass complete with a full jazz orchestra and 16-member chorus. In the 1980s, Impulse sprang back to life during The Young Lions days and helped revive jazz during its neo-classicism movement. An important young artist of that new Impulse era was pianist Eric Reed, whose expressive playing and deep lyricism has piloted his career to the present. Reed brings his ensemble, Surge....
