Lewis Jordan
Happenings
Featured Premiere:
On Thursday, February 17th at 7:30 pm (PST), you can see Music at Large in performance at the Freight & Salvage on September 27, 2021. A look into the inspired artistry of a collaboration between music, poetry and movement. As always, whatever the struggle, there’s always an art. AVAILABLE TILL FURTHER NOTICE!
What do we know and how do we know it?
When do we know it?
“You had an experience yesterday which taught you something and what it taught you becomes a new authority — and that authority of yesterday is as destructive as the authority of a thousand years.”
-J. Krishnamurti
What do we know and how do we know it?
Where Text and Music Intersect
Jordan is a poet, actor, playwright, and commanding saxophonist who combines a deep feel for the blues with abiding ties to jazz’s ancient-to-the-future avant-garde.
He has long explored the intersection of text and music. Moving between muscular alto and surging baritone sax, he’s a master at facilitating a seamless flow from spoke word settings to full-throttle instrumental improvisation. Over the years, he’s honed his theatrical musical vision in collaboration with an interdisciplinary array of heavyweights, such as Brenda Wong Aoki, Anthony Braxton, Danny Glover, devorah major, James Newton, Ntozake Shange, and Cecil Taylor.
—Andrew Gilbert, The Oaklandside & The Monthly
“This is about cultural work. For those unfamiliar with the term, this is the sense that it makes to me: Cultural work is a process based on an insistence that artistic products are not neutral in terms of their social effects or the social dynamics that they encourage or discourage. Therefore, etc.”
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Music at Large @ Freight & Salvage: Critical Mass