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a Tribute to ed Blackwell Featuring Joe Lovano at Bowker Auditorium
Courtesy of Annemarie Seifert | Posted on January 27, 2014
Where
Bowker Auditorium
121 Stockbridge Hall, University Of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
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When
Thu, March 13, 2014
8:00pm
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This concert is a tribute to Ed Blackwell, one of the most important and unsung drummers in jazz history. Blackwell, who first came to national prominence in 1960 with Ornette Coleman, performed in the 1992 Magic Triangle Series. Known as one of the great innovators of the 1960s, Blackwell fused the second line parade music of his native New Orleans with African rhythms and bebop. In the 1970s and 80s, Blackwell toured and recorded extensively with fellow Ornette Coleman veterans Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Dewey Redman in the quartet Old and New Dreams. After years of kidney problems, Blackwell died in 1992. The following year he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame....