Maverick Inventions: Odean Pope & Dave Burrell Real Book Series at The University Of The Arts: Caplan Recital Hall

This gala, celebratory evening includes a wine and cheese reception beginning at 6:30 p.m., a concert by ground-breaking saxophonist Odean Pope and his quartet from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., "Jazz Talk" with three scholars who will contextualize the theme of the evening: "Maverick Inventions," "Creative Struggle," "Nurturing the Muse," and "Telling Our Story," which which will examine the impact of the social/political environment on jazz in Philadelphia during the 1960s and how progressive thought liberated music from traditional forms from 8:45 to 9:45 p.m.; and from 8:45 to 9:45, an eagerly-anticipated solo piano concert by distinguished and cutting edge composer/pianist Dave Burrell...

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This gala, celebratory evening includes a wine and cheese reception beginning at 6:30 p.m., a concert by ground-breaking saxophonist Odean Pope and his quartet from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., "Jazz Talk" with three scholars who will contextualize the theme of the evening: "Maverick Inventions," "Creative Struggle," "Nurturing the Muse," and "Telling Our Story," which which will examine the impact of the social/political environment on jazz in Philadelphia during the 1960s and how progressive thought liberated music from traditional forms from 8:45 to 9:45 p.m.; and from 8:45 to 9:45, an eagerly-anticipated solo piano concert by distinguished and cutting edge composer/pianist Dave Burrell. The performances by Dave Burrell, Odean Pope, as well as "Jazz Talk" and the wine and cheese reception, take place within the University of the Arts' Caplan Recital Hall, 211 South Broad Street in Center City Philadelphia.

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