Date: Saturday April 6, 2013Time: 8pm
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 door
Genre: jazz
At 92 years of age Yusef Lateef is one of the greatest living masters of African-American improvised music. This will be the first full evenings concert of his music in NYC since 2000, when he was honored at Alice Tully Hall for his 80th birthday. It will include 3 premieres of his through composed works and a performance of Yusef Lateef in his longstanding duet collaboration with Adam Rudolph. They have been performing as a duet at festivals and concerts worldwide since 1990. In the fall of 2012 they toured Italy and in January of 2010 they performed at Lincoln Center as Dr. Lateef received the NEA Jazz Masters Award.
Program:
Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Duet
Yusef Lateef: Tenor Sax, Vocal. Oboe, C Flute, Alto Flute, Bamboo Flute, Shenai, Pneumatic bamboo flute, Moan flute and piano
Adam Rudolph: handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarijas, zabumba), sintir, cajon, thumb pianos, cup gongs, bells, gongs, cymbals, kongo slit drum, selya overtone flutes, vocal, percussion, piano
String Quartet no. 2. 2012 (World premiere)
Momenta Quartet
Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin 1
Adda Kridler, violin 2
Stephanie Griffin, viola
Michael Haas, cello
Trio in December 1998 (NY Premiere)
op. 2 No. 2 (Elan Vital)
J D Parran soprano saxophone
Marty Ehrlich alto saxophone
Alan Won baritone saxophone
Autophysiopsychic (variations for piano) 2012 (World premiere)
Taka Kigawa, piano
