Musicians For Musicians (MFM) Presents: Music Is Essential ZOOM Talk Event #3 with Jerome Harris and Randy Landau Speaking on “Bass: The Joys of the Bottom Line”
Date: Monday, July 18, 2022
Time: 5pm to 6:30pm (ET)
Venue: ZOOM
ZOOM Host: Adam Reifsteck
Ticket: free
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodOmhrzkpE9w37ClXVL-Zdp8iu9Pa6REp
Webinar description
While the front-line melody grabs the full attention of most casual listeners, sometimes - as Meghan Trainor’s song says - “it’s all about that bass”…
Join experienced NYC bottom-line practitioners Randy Landau and Jerome Harris for a fun and wide-ranging look at dealing with music’s foundations artfully. There’s so much to savor and appreciate down in the low registers!
About Jerome Harris
Jerome Harris’s first major professional performing experience came as bass guitarist with the iconic jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins in 1978. Harris has performed on six continents, working with Jack DeJohnette, David Krakauer, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Leni Stern, Martha Redbone, Ray Anderson, Julius Hemphill, Amina Claudine Myers, Ned Rothenberg, Oliver Lake, and many others in jazz and jazz-adjacent genres.
Jerome Harris appears on over seventy recordings. He has taught at Hampshire College, William Paterson University, Lehman College (City University of New York), and the Alternative Guitar Summit Camp. Harris's published essays include "Considering Jaki Byard" (in Sound American SA22; New York: Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., 2019), and "Jazz on the Global Stage" (in The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective; edited by Ingrid Monson; New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2000). He studied at Harvard College (A.B. 1973) and New England Conservatory of Music (B.M. with honors, 1977).
About Randy Landau
Randy Landau began playing bass guitar at age 12, began upright at age 19, pretty much self-taught until it came to the bow. Then began to study with Judy Sugarman, Homer Mensch, & Alvin Brehm. Free lancing, for the most part, in NYC since 1978.
His distinctive and virtuosic bass playing has landed him in the company of a wide spectrum of music legends, from Chuck Berry, Paul Anka, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendrick, Loretta Devine and Patti LaBelle, James Taylor, Bette Midler, Dave Stewart, Kelli O’Hara, Anika Noni Rose, to Larry Coryell, L. Subramanium, Gary Burton, and New York Voices. Randy’s many Broadway and national-tour credits include The Bridges of Madison County, First Date, Ghost: The Musical, Billy Elliot: The Musical, High Fidelity, In My Life, Spamalot, Legally Blonde, Man of La Mancha, Bombay Dreams, Rent, City of Angels, Aida, and many more.
As a 25-year member of Jason Robert’s band, Randy has played on all the cast recordings of JRB’s Songs For A New World, and The Last 5 Years. Two solo albums, Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes, and How We React and how We recover. Randy’s next collaboration with JRB will be The Connector, which will have its debut in winter of 2023. In the meantime, he’ll be covering the local Orchestral bass chair for The WHO, and beginning a production of Tom Kitt and Cameron Crow’s Almost Famous, opening on Broadway fall of 2022.
About MFM (https://www.MusiciansForMusicians.org)
MFM seeks to bring together musicians of all kinds in the cause of their mutual self-betterment, and to elevate their work to the level of a true profession.
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