Randy Weston – Jazz Giant – Solo Piano – a Africa interest event taking place on 2017-10-20 20:00:00 in United States
Randy Weston is one of the few musicians who can fill the stage your ears,,, and your heart, all by himself! After contributing seven decades of musical direction and genius, Randy Weston remains one of the world's foremost pianists and composers today a true innovator and visionary. -All About Jazz "Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk, as well as the richest most inventive beat," -Stanley Crouch 2013Honorary "Doctor of Music" New England Conservatory of Music 2014Doris Duke Jazz Artist Award 2015JJA Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Award 2016The Randy Weston Collection at Harvard 2016Enters DownBeat Hall of Fame 2017"Legends of Jazz" award from National Jazz Museum in Harlem During the cold war, Weston was part of the Jazz Ambassadors program, which sent he, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and other leading jazz musicians on tours world tours. You take the black church, the calypso, the blues, Duke, Basie, Art Tatum, put them in a pot and stir them up, and add Africa: That's Randy Weston." -Downbeat
at The Moss Theater at New Roads School at the Herb Alpert Educational Village 3131 Olympic Boulevard Santa Monica United States – Add your South African Event here.
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