The Charlottesville Jazz Society And Wtju Present Robert Dick, Stephen Nachmanovitch And Robert Jospe at Brooks Hall

Three master improvisers – Robert Dick, Stephen Nachmanovitch and Robert Jospé-- will play on May 6, 2017 at 8 pm in The University of Virginia’s Brooks Hall. Sponsored by The Charlottesville Jazz Society and WTJU. This trio concert will be a spontaneous musical conversation and exploration of sound, rhythm, melody and more. Dick will be playing flute, bass flute and other instruments; Nachmanovitch will be playing violin, viola, electric violin, viola d’amore and voice; Jospé will be playing drum set, hand drums, log drums, and other percussion.

New York based Robert Dick has completely dispensed with preconceptions about what music a flutist plays and what the flute can sound like. Listening to Robert play solo has been likened to hearing a full orchestra. He plays the flute as a human powered synthesizer; his sound can be thick chords one instant, then chromatic percussion, then delicate whispering filigrees, then a display of surprising power. The New York Times calls him “ a flutist whose technical resources and imagination seem limitless.” He received the National Flute Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. His newest CD is “Our Cells Know”(Tzadik), which was given 5 Stars in Downbeat Magazine....

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Three master improvisers – Robert Dick, Stephen Nachmanovitch and Robert Jospé-- will play on May 6, 2017 at 8 pm in The University of Virginia’s Brooks Hall. Sponsored by The Charlottesville Jazz Society and WTJU. This trio concert will be a spontaneous musical conversation and exploration of sound, rhythm, melody and more. Dick will be playing flute, bass flute and other instruments; Nachmanovitch will be playing violin, viola, electric violin, viola d’amore and voice; Jospé will be playing drum set, hand drums, log drums, and other percussion.

New York based Robert Dick has completely dispensed with preconceptions about what music a flutist plays and what the flute can sound like. Listening to Robert play solo has been likened to hearing a full orchestra. He plays the flute as a human powered synthesizer; his sound can be thick chords one instant, then chromatic percussion, then delicate whispering filigrees, then a display of surprising power. The New York Times calls him “ a flutist whose technical resources and imagination seem limitless.” He received the National Flute Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. His newest CD is “Our Cells Know”(Tzadik), which was given 5 Stars in Downbeat Magazine.

Charlottesville resident Stephen Nachmanovitch performs and teaches internationally as an improvisational violinist, working at the intersections of music, dance, theater, and multimedia arts. He is the author of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art. In the 1970s he was a pioneer in free improvisation on violin, viola and electric violin. He has presented master classes and workshops at many conservatories and universities, and has had numerous appearances on radio, television, and at music and theater festivals.

Robert Jospe is a jazz drummer, composer, educator, and leader of The Robert Jospé Express. He has been a University of Virginia faculty member since 1989, where he is a member of The Free Bridge Quintet. Robert also presents the “World Beat Workshop”, an educational program following the rhythms of West Africa to the Americas. He studied with Tony Williams and Bob Moses and performed with Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, John Schofield and John Abercrombie, and he was awarded the 2012 Artist/Educator of the year by the Charlottesville Jazz Society.

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