Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker: A book talk by author Stanley Crouch
(Published: October 15, 2013)

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch,
one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.

Monday, October 28, 2013, 8pm
101 Prentis Hall, 632 West 125th Street. Bet. Broadway and Riverside Dr.

Free and open to the public by rsvp is required to ym189@columbia.edu or calling 212-851-9270
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Please join us as well for these upcoming events:

Jazz Dreams II: A Film Screening
A Conversation with film maker Geoffrey Poister and musician Courtney Bryan

Jazz Dreams II is an 89-minute documentary that follows three young jazz musicians from New Orleans for fourteen years as they embark on difficult careers. The film features Jason Marsalis, the youngest member of the famed Marsalis family; Irvin Mayfield, a Grammy Award winning trumpet player/composer, and Courtney Bryan, a sensitive pianist attending the arts high school that graduated Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton,and Harry Connick Jr. We watch them grow from high school, through the death and destruction of Hurricane Katrina, to becoming parents and entrepreneurs.

It is a compelling story about committed young black Americans who are determined to keep America's most original art form alive and vibrant. The film includes appearances by Wynton Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, and Gordon Parks.

Monday November 11, 2013, 8pm
101 Prentis Hall, 632 West 125th Street. Bet. Broadway and Riverside Dr. Free and open to the public by rsvp is required to ym189@columbia.edu or calling 212-851-9270
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Strayhorn in the Foreground
The Billy Strayhorn Orchestra directed by Michael Hashim, with a pre-concert lecture by David Hajdu

A performance of unknown or rare masterworks for big band by Billy Strayhorn. Having languished for decades in the shadow of Duke Ellington, his close collaborator, this brilliant composer is now beginning to receive his due recognition. The concert features the all-star Billy Strayhorn Orchestra directed by Michael Hashim, with a pre-concert lecture by David Hajdu, author of "Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn" and Professor in the
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Thursday, November 21, 2013, 7:30pm Location: TBA Free and open to the public by rsvp is required to ym189@columbia.edu or calling 212-851-9270

More Information: http://jazz.columbia.edu/