{"id":1468,"date":"2016-03-30T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:08:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:08:36","slug":"2016-international-jazz-day-celebration-on-april-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2016\/03\/30\/2016-international-jazz-day-celebration-on-april-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 International Jazz Day Celebration on April 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/2016-Jazz-Appreciate-Day-Celebration-1024x768-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4224 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/2016-Jazz-Appreciate-Day-Celebration-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/2016-Jazz-Appreciate-Day-Celebration-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/2016-Jazz-Appreciate-Day-Celebration-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/2016-Jazz-Appreciate-Day-Celebration-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music in collaboration with the UNESCO Center for Global Citizenship, The Conservatory of Central Illinois, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is sponsoring our third International Jazz Day celebration on April 26, 2016.\u00a0 From 5:30-6:45pm\u00a0 the <em>Jazz without Borders: New York, Paris, Havana, Rio<\/em> program will offer film clips and commentary, accompanied by live musical demonstrations of both gypsy and Latin jazz techniques at Champaign, Illinois&#8217;\u00a0 Art Theater, followed by an after-party performance by Samba Soul at the Esquire Lounge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The evening\u2019s events will begin with performance footage of legendary gypsy jazz musicians Django Reinhardt and St\u00e9phane Grappelli<strong>, <\/strong>accompanied by commentary from noted music educators Sam Reese and Jo Ellen DeVilbiss. To highlight characteristics of <em>le jazz hot<\/em>, they\u2019ll be joined by Dorothy Martirano and members of her Almost \u201cA\u201d Quintet\u2014guitarist Chris Beyt, keyboardist Sam Gingher, bassist Armand Beaudoin and percussionist Ricardo Flores.\u00a0 From Paris of the 1930s the evening will then move to clips from <em>Chico &amp; Rita, <\/em>an animated film about the evolution of Afro-Cuban jazz as musicians migrated from Havana to New York.\u00a0 Reese and Flores will discuss and demonstrate the rhythmic underpinnings of Latin jazz created by such figures as Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie, and will follow with\u00a0an excerpt from the documentary <em>Calle 54 <\/em>which highlights Tito Puente&#8217;s &#8220;Cubop&#8221; performance style.\u00a0\u00a0 Local jazz enthusiast John Bennett will conclude the evening&#8217;s jazz film screening with a viewing of a special filmed tribute performance of Antonio Carlos Jobim\u2019s \u201cGirl from Ipanema\u201d which provides a glimpse of how <em>bossa nova <\/em>took the U.S. by storm during the 1950s and 60s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film screening and after-party performance are free and open the general public.\u00a0 We hope you can join us for another evening of great music, delightful films, and thoughtful discussion about jazz around the world as part of this year&#8217;s International Jazz Day celebration.\u00a0 For more information please call 217-333-4577 or email <a href=\"mailto:sousa@illinois.edu\">sousa@illinois.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music in collaboration with the UNESCO Center for Global Citizenship, The Conservatory of Central Illinois, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is sponsoring our third International Jazz Day celebration on April 26, 2016.\u00a0 From 5:30-6:45pm\u00a0 the Jazz without Borders: New York, Paris, Havana, Rio program will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}