 | Wednesday, August 12th at 8pm: The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to welcome Nickolas Kaplan Quintet for a livestream performance of the 1954 release, “Clifford Brown & Max Roach”. The night will also feature an installation and live painting from visual artist Kristin Wenc! ALBUM BACKGROUND: 'Clifford Brown and Max Roach' was the first recording of a quintet that changed jazz. It was tragically short lived; Clifford Brown and pianist Richie Powell (Bud's brother) were to die in the same car crash within two years of the album's release, an event that affected Max Roach for years to come. The music is based in bop but has outgrown its origins to such an extent that it is clearly one of the first great examples of hard bop. Clifford Brown is superb on trumpet, building clear, precise melody lines with such authority and control for a mere 24 year old....Harold Land, much overlooked, plays fluid, sinuous saxophone and shares real understanding with Clifford Brown in the many unison passages before breaking out into inventive and innovative solos. Richie Powell and George Morrow on piano and bass add to the modern, open approach inspired by Max Roach's fine drumming. Before forming this quintet with Clifford Brown, Max Roach had already established a lasting place in the history of the development of jazz...He transformed jazz drumming, pioneering an open style with emphasis away from heavy use of bass drum towards more subtle development of cross rhythms on ride cymbal, high hat and snare rim. His prodigious technique virtually defined modern jazz drumming." -100 Greatest Jazz Albums PERFORMANCES BY: Nickolas Kaplan - Trumpet Rajiv Halim - Tenor Sax Julius Tucker - Piano John Sutton - Bass Ethan Kogan - Drums LIVESTREAM ACCESS: https://www.facebook.com/events/3616581491703815/ |
