the sanctified

Beautiful, haunting, rapturous: these six shows—and one omniverous talk—are charged with the pure, nearly spiritual conviction to push beyond the world as it is, toward something purer and stranger—the world of art. The series features two of the season’s most innovative programs, as Megafaun & Fight the Big Bull team with partners to record a live album at Hayti, and the dazzling conceptual artist Ralph Lemon unveils a breathtaking investigation of transcendence and human connection.

SFJAZZ Collective • 'The Music of Horace Silver'
feat. Miguel Zenon, Mark Turner, Ambrose Akinmusire, Luis Bonilla, Stefon Harris, Edward Simon, Matt Penman & Eric Harland
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | 8:00 pm
Page Auditorium
$32 • $26 • $18 • Duke Students $5
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Each year this all-star, 8-man co-op of the world’s most gifted musicians—bandleaders all—picks the music of one of modern jazz’s great composers, re-sets it for the collective, then makes a national tour to perform it.  Featuring the "lyrical, spiritual, and original" Zenon (All About Jazz); Harris, "one of the most important young artists in jazz" (LA Times); and Turner, "possibly jazz’s premier player" (NY Times), the jazz ambassadors shine their blazing light on Silver, the hard bop pioneer who created a newer, earthier Blue Note sound from R&B, gospel, and Cape Verdean folk songs. Silver’s quintessential charts light up in the hands of America's most astounding ensemble, who "roar with the kind of chemistry that [can] truly be deemed collective" (SF Chronicle).

Note: Both trumpeter Avishai Cohen and trombonist Robin Eubanks have cancelled their Duke Performances appearance with the SFJAZZ Collective.  They will be replaced by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and trombonist Luis Bonilla.  

Akinmusire is winner of two of the most prestigious jazz competitions in the world: the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition.  He has recently put out debut release for Blue Note Records.  

Bonilla is a Costa Rican-born, California-raised musician and composer — a longtime member of the Mingus Big Band, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.

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"The standard of musicianship, in terms of solo fire power, could hardly be higher"
—New York Times on the SFJAZZ Collective 

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SFJAZZ Collective Residency at Duke University
Wednesday through Friday, October 27-29

Class visit with Michael Cuscuna
to Introduction to Jazz
Wednesday, October 27, 4:25-5:30p
White 107, Duke U. East Campus
Free & open to the public

In Conversation: Michael Cuscuna
On Horace Silver & SFJAZZ
Wednesday, October 27 at 7p
Regulator Bookshop
Free & open to the public

Pre-concert Listening Session
with Stefon Harris
Thursday, October 28, 6p
Six Plates (2812 Erwin Rd, Ste. 104)
Free & open to the public

In Conversation: SFJAZZ Collective
with Miguel Zenon and Mark Turner
moderated by Prof. John Brown
Friday, October 29, noon-1p
Biddle Music Bldg., Rm 104
Free & open to the public

The SFJAZZ Collective Residency at Duke is co-sponsored by the Duke Jazz Program and the Duke Jazz Archive: Special Collections Library.

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