Inside Track
Inside Track is Jazz Arts Group’s newest music performance series at the Lincoln Theatre. Designed to attract a diverse audience, Inside Track features a cross-section of contemporary music by nationally touring artists and smaller ensembles in an intimate setting.
The Gospel According to Swing
December 18, 2010
Saturday, 8 p.m.
- Artists:
- Byron Stripling
- Bobby Floyd
- Nia Allen
- Venue:
- Lincoln Theatre
- Map/Directions
Show Description:
Columbus Jazz Orchestra’s Artistic Director Byron Stripling leads this gospel-themed show.
Dave Douglas and Keystone: Spark of Being
February 5, 2011
Saturday, 8 p.m.
- Artists:
- Dave Douglas & Keystone
- Venue:
- Lincoln Theatre
- Map/Directions
Show Description:
Two-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician Dave Douglas is arguably the most prolific and original trumpeter-composer of his generation. From his New York base, where he has lived since the mid 1980s, Mr. Douglas has continued to earn lavish national and international acclaim including prizes from such organizations as the New York Jazz Awards, Down Beat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, and the Italian Jazz Critics Society. His solo recording career began in 1993 with Parallel Worlds on Soul Note Records, and he has since released more than 30 recordings. This year brings a new collection of work with his electronic sextet Keystone entitled, Spark of Being, a retelling of the Frankenstein myth in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison. On the 100th anniversary of the first Frankenstein film, Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison unveiled their multimedia collaboration, Spark of Being, at Stanford University. On film, it stands as a reinterpretation of that Frankenstein myth using new, archival, and distressed footage. The themes, penned by Douglas for his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, integrate electronics seamlessly into the improvised music, piecing sounds and movement together to make three strikingly different creatures.
Chris Thomas King
March 5, 2011
Saturday, 8 p.m.
- Artists:
- Chris Thomas King
- Venue:
- Lincoln Theatre
- Map/Directions
Show Description:
Initially known for his audacious fusion of blues and hip-hop, Chris Thomas King reached a whole new audience starring in and scoring music for the Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, not only appearing on the award-winning soundtrack, but establishing himself as a serious dramatic actor as well. King has continued to act in and score motion pictures including the Oscar winning Ray. King has also written and recorded more than 150 songs that are in demand for license to motion pictures, documentaries and television programs. The new album Sketches of Treme, is Chris Thomas King’s first full-length studio album since the release of the Handy nominated Rise, in 2006. The tour will feature these new songs as well as fan favorites including songs from the movies Ray and O Brother.
The Birth of the Cool
April 29 & 30, 2011
Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.
- Artists:
- TBA with special appearance by CCAD’s Denny Griffith
- Venue:
- Lincoln Theatre
- Map/Directions
Show Description:
As jazz’s bebop movement flourished during the late 1940s with its fast-paced rhythms from virtuosos like trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Miles Davis headed off in a new direction. Taking cues from the innovations learned in Parker’s group, Davis, along with his nonet, recorded 12 songs in a two-year span that, when released together on one album, became known as Birth of the Cool. In 1949, arranger Gil Evans’s New York basement apartment, where various jazz musicians had gathered, became ground zero for the nonet’s formation. For the three recording sessions that took place Jan. and April 1949 and March 1950, Davis used the unlikely instruments of French horn and tuba, something first brought to light by the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, of which Evans was the principal arranger. Davis also enlisted the more traditional baritone and alto saxophones, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass and drums to complete the nonet. This instrumentation, coupled with the likes of Davis on trumpet, baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, pianist John Lewis, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and drummers Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, created a warm, relaxed, albeit “cool,” sound that would become the standard for West Coast jazz.
The Inside Track series is presented by the Jazz Arts Group with ongoing support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Columbus Foundation.
Media support is provided by The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus Alive, CD101, WCBE 90.5 FM and WOSU Public Media.