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John Pietaro at The October Jazz Revolution Festival at 17 Frost Theatre Of The Arts
Courtesy of John Pietaro | Posted on September 1, 2012
Where
17 Frost Theatre Of The Arts
The October Jazz Revolution Festival
17 Frost Street
Brooklyn, NY
Map
(646) 389-2017
When
Sat, October 20, 2012
7:30PM
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Musicians
John Pietaro
percussionRas Moshe
multi-instrumentalistSarah Bernstein
violinJean Carla Rodea
vocalsNora McCarthy
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Brooklyn NY: ‘THE OCTOBER JAZZ REVOLUTION’ TAKES ON WILLIAMSBURG
On October 20, gallery/performance space 17 Frost Theatre of the Arts in Williamsburg Brooklyn will play host to the first annual October Jazz Revolution. The event, organized by percussionist John Pietaro and presented by the Dissident Arts Front, will celebrate the radical sounds of improvisational music as a statement of wider liberation. Emboldened progressive statements of social justice will be present through much of the music heard, ranging from original works to reconstructions of older protest music to thematic free jazz. The October Jazz Revolution is modeled on earlier Left music/political movements including those of Bill Dixon, the AACM, the Liberation Music Orchestra, and the Composers Collective of NY, among others....