Look + Listen Festival Presents: The Farewell Concert
Free
Stewart Goodyear — Solo
Sun Ra — Love in Outer Space
Ken Thomson — Catapult
The Invisible Dog Art Center is thrilled to present a farewell concert by Look + Listen Festival, featuring violinist Miranda Cuckson, saxophonist Darius Jones, and percussionist Doug Perkins.
About this event
After 20 years of presenting acclaimed concerts in visual art spaces, Look + Listen has decided to end operations. To thank the many artists and community members who have supported the festival in the past two decades, we are presenting our last concert on Saturday, October 29 at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, NY.
Please join us! There will be some incredible music. Ukrainian artist Misha Tyutunik will create a painting in real time while the musicians play. The resulting work will be awarded to a lucky audience member in a raffle drawing. A party will follow!
Program
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Aida Shirazi (b.1987): Longing for a Distant Memory (2018)
Stewart Goodyear (b. 1978): Solo (two movements, ‘Waltz’ + ‘Chant’)
Darius Jones, alto saxophone
Sun Ra (1914-1993), arr. by Darius Jones: Love in Outer Space (1962/2019)
Douglas Perkins, drums
Ken Thomson (b. 1976): Catapult (2015)
About Look + Listen Festival
Called “a winning formula” by The New York Times, the Look + Listen Festival catalyzes dialogue between art forms. Look + Listen features music and art created and performed by the finest established and emerging artists. It was founded in 2002 by David Gordon, who was inspired by a concert of music by Joan Tower at the DIA Center.
Since then, the Festival has presented such extraordinary musicians as the Bang on a Can All Stars, eighth blackbird, JACK Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Phyllis Chen, Claire Chase, So Percussion, Meredith Monk, the Tyshawn Sorey Trio, and Angélica Negrón. Look + Listen takes place at partner venues throughout the city, which in recent years have included BRIC House, Chelsea Art Museum, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Invisible Dog Art Center.
This event will be streamed through Look + Listen's Facebook page found here: https://www.facebook.com/looklistenfest/
About Darius Jones
Over the past decade, Darius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of African-American music. “Jones’ concept is proudly his own,” writes Philip Clark in The Wire. “[His music] poses big questions about the relationship between the African-American tradition of spirituals, blues and gospel, and now.” With New York City as his base since 2005, Jones has brought his unique sound to dozens of cities around the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Jones early on established himself as a powerful voice in the jazz community and was nominated in 2013 for Alto Saxophonist of the Year, and for Up & Coming Artist of the Year two years in a row for the Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards. More recently The New York Times named Jones among the Best Live Jazz Performances of 2017 for his Vision Festival performance with Farmers by Nature.
Jones has collaborated with artists including Gerald Cleaver, Oliver Lake, William Parker, Trevor Dunn, Branford Marsalis, Steve Lehman, Sun Ra Arkestra, and many more. Signed to AUM Fidelity records in 2009, Jones has released a string of diverse recordings which comprise his Man’ish Boy Epic, featuring music and images evocative of Black Futurism. Darius’ 2012 release, Book of Mæ’bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) was listed among NPR’s Best Top 10 Jazz Albums of that year.
Jones graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelors in Jazz Studies in 2003, earning a Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance/Composition from New York University in 2008, where he also taught New Music Improvisation for a year as an adjunct professor. Jones taught saxophone and improvisation at Columbia University in 2017.
http://www.dariusjonesmusic.com/