Spontaneous Duos: an International Jazz Day Celebration at International Jazz Day Celebration Series at Eastman Community Music School - Messenger One

April 30th is International Jazz Day--come join the Rochester celebration!

Based on a similar concert at the Undead Jazz Festival seventeen improvising musicians will take part over the course of 90-minutes. Musician 1 will play solo for 5 minutes and then be joined by musician 2. After 5 minutes musician 1 will leave and musician 3 will enter. Musicians will continue to enter and leave at 5 minute intervals until everyone has played 10 minutes. The playing order will not be revealed to the musicians until 30 minutes before the performance to keep with the spontaneous feel of the event....

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April 30th is International Jazz Day--come join the Rochester celebration!

Based on a similar concert at the Undead Jazz Festival seventeen improvising musicians will take part over the course of 90-minutes. Musician 1 will play solo for 5 minutes and then be joined by musician 2. After 5 minutes musician 1 will leave and musician 3 will enter. Musicians will continue to enter and leave at 5 minute intervals until everyone has played 10 minutes. The playing order will not be revealed to the musicians until 30 minutes before the performance to keep with the spontaneous feel of the event.

Featuring:

John Beck
Mike Kaupa
Jacob Dupre
Mike Frederick
Sean Jefferson
Theresa Chen
Jeff Campbell
Alexa Tarantino
Kristen Shiner McGuire
Daruisz Terefenko
Dean Keller
Emiliano Lasansky
Wendy Eisenberg
Bill Tiberio
Brendan Lanighan
Evan Dobbins
Ben Britton

Sponsored by the Eastman Community Music School (esm.rochester.edu/community) and the Institute for Creative Music (www.ifcmusic.org). Free admission with reception to follow.

For more information about International Jazz Day visit www.jazzday.com

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