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Refitting Old Ships: How Jazz Builds on Its Own Past

Refitting Old Ships: How Jazz Builds on Its Own Past

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Date of Lecture

4-14-2016

Keywords

Armstrong State University, A Moveable Feast

Description of Lecture

The lecture will serve as the grand finale of this season’s Moveable Feast and will include a jazz quartet performance to show how jazz musicians expand on music of the past during the creation of new work. They will demonstrate jazz’s process of creating rhythmic, harmonic, melodic and stylistic variations for existing pieces in order to reimagine musical staples. Reese specializes in the saxophone and directs the Jazz Ensemble. Primatic specializes in percussion instruments and directs the Percussion Ensemble. Both professors hold a D.M.A.

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Department of Art, Music and Theater Ships of the Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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Refitting Old Ships: How Jazz Builds on Its Own Past
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