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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Intimacy on Set
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present Shoot & Splice: Intimacy On Set at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nTickets: Free\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Event begins at 7:00 p.m. \nIndie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a panel and conversation on Intimacy Coordinating. While not a new position\, intimacy coordination has recently become an on-set film industry expectation whenever actors are needed to perform vulnerable scenes that require high levels of trust and communication. \nOur panel of local coordinators have worked closely with many directors\, actors\, and crew\, while also furthering their knowledge through organizations such as Intimacy Choreographers of Color (ICOC) and the Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE). \nIntimacy Coordination covers a much broader range of cinematic scenes than one might realize – including stunt choreography – while assisting to create a safe\, trusting\, and creative set experience for all. To learn more about our panelists\, see their bios below. \nShoot & Splice is a FREE filmmaker forum presented by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis\, featuring a wide variety of technical\, educational\, and unique topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community.
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LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Listening Session with Xiu Xiu
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents a Listening Session with Xiu Xiu in the Memphis Listening Lab. \nMemphis Listening Lab\nTuesday\, April 11\, 2023\nEvent begins at 6 pm\nTickets: Free \nREGISTER HERE \nXiu Xiu will play songs from their records on the incredible speaker system in the Memphis Listening Lab and then discuss those songs. There will be a brief Q&A after the listening session.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/listening-session-with-xiu-xiu/
LOCATION:Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Willi Carlisle with Rachel Maxann
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Willi Carlisle with Rachel Maxann in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSunday\, April 9\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n“Willi Carlisle speaks his truth.” – NPR Music \n“Willi Carlisle is just the kind of artist that Americana music needs.” – Paste Magazine \nWILLI CARLISLE is a poet and a folk singer for the people\, but his extraordinary gift for turning a phrase isn’t about high falutin’ pontificatin’; it’s about looking out for one another and connecting through our shared human condition. Born and raised on the Midwestern plains\, Carlisle is a product of the punk-to-folk music pipeline that’s long fueled frustrated young men looking to resist. \nAfter falling for the rich ballads and tunes of the Ozarks\, where he now lives\, he began examining the full spectrum of American musical history. This insatiable stylistic diversity is obvious in his wildly raucous live performances\, where songs range from sardonic trucker-ballads like “Vanlife” to the heartbreaking queer waltz “Life on the Fence\,” to an existential talkin’ blues about a panic attack in Walmart’s aisle five. \nWith guitar\, fiddle\, button-box\, banjo\, harmonicas\, rhythm-bones\, and Willi’s booming baritone\, this is bonafide populist folk music in the tradition of cowboys\, frontier fiddlers\, and tall-tale tellers. Carlisle recognizes that the only thing holding us back from greatness is each other. With a quick wit and big sing-alongs\, these folksongs bring us a step closer to breaking down our divides. \n“Willi Carlisle is an absolute force of nature. From the moment he walks on stage you can’t take your eyes off of him and the minute he opens his mouth you can’t help but hang on every word. Even if the songs weren’t there\, the showmanship alone would be worth the price of admission\, but the scary part is the songs are just as good as the stories.” — BJ Barham
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SUMMARY:Roberta Lea presented by Folk All Y’all and Crosstown Arts
DESCRIPTION:The Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, April 8\, 2023\nDoors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm\nTickets: $20 (purchase tickets here) \nWith a voice like cinnamon and a pen like butter\, Roberta Lea is a rising artist\, ready to give the world a taste of what she’s made of. Fellow artists have called her Hampton Roads’ best kept secret. It’s as though she’s a family recipe\, kept hidden until now. \nFellow musicians have described her sound as “country-neo-pop.” As a Millennial\, it’s often quite difficult to pin her down to one particular genre. Her influences range from ’80s R&B legends like Roberta Flack\, Anita Baker\, and Sade\, to pop ’90s girl-power players like Alanis Morissette\, Sheryl Crow\, Shania Twain\, and everything in between.
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LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Ami Dang
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Ami Dang in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nThursday\, April 6\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 advance | $25 day of the show \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nAmrita “Ami” Kaur Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist\, sitarist\, composer and producer from Baltimore. Her sound blends elements of North Indian classical\, noise/ambient electronics\, beat-driven psych and experimental dance pop. The work references her hybrid identity as a first-generation South Asian-American\, Sikh upbringing\, musical education\, as well as the chaos and spirituality of the landscapes of both Baltimore and urban India. \nPicking up her first sitar when she was twelve years old\, Dang has studied North Indian classical music (voice and sitar) in both New Delhi and Maryland\, and she also holds a degree in music technology & composition from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Following in the footsteps of artists like Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass\, she seeks to advance the sound of contemporary experimental\, pop\, and electronic music with the sounds of South Asia — through vocals and sitar\, ragas\, and sampling. And vice versa\, she aims to bring a broader sound palette to the legacy of South Asian music. These goals are a lifelong mission. To that end\, she has collaborated with Animal Collective\, William Cashion (of Future Islands)\, James Acaster\, Thor Harris — to name a few. She has provided tour support for Beach House\, black midi\, Grimes\, Lower Dens\, Florist and more.
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SUMMARY:Tarta Relena
DESCRIPTION:The Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSunday\, April 2\, 2023\nDoors 7PM | Show 7:30PM\nTickets: $25 | $20 in advance \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nTarta Relena was born in 2016 as a project of two singers to explore a cappella the sonorities of different styles of vocal music. Far from wanting to create a stamp of the traditional and to define the Mediterranean\, Tarta Relena wants to make its own a repertoire that goes from music of oral tradition to songs of author that in one way or another are related to the geographical area of the Mediterranean. \nTarta Relena sings from the perspective that what we call folklore is a living and moving repertoire. Therefore\, this reality is mouldable and can be reinterpreted with the instruments and sonorities that we now have within our reach. A key tool is the electronics with which they re-signify the melodies without leaving aside their origins. The study and knowledge of the path and the contexts that have given rise to these musics opens the doors of experimentation towards new meanings. In Tarta Relena’s work there is also a desire to play at blurring the concept of authorship\, bringing together anonymous traditional melodies and newly created songs under the same umbrella\, treating them in the same way and placing oral transmission\, the central element of tradition\, at the centre. \nOne of the strong points of the project is the complexity in simplicity and the maximum expression with the minimum of elements. The repertoire work brings together the resources of different vocal techniques (flamenco\, lyrical\, traditional\, jazz…)\, allowing a vast exploration of the possibilities of the voice. \nIn January 2019 Tarta Relena released her first album entitled Ora Pro Nobis (The Indian Runners\, 2019)\, winner of the Enderrock Critics’ Prize for the best folk album of 2019\, which consists of eight a cappella songs with a subtle presence of electronics. In April 2020\, during their confinement\, they released their second work\, Intercede Pro Nobis (The Indian Runners\, 2020)\, recognised by Rockdelux as the best national EP of 2020\, which emphasises the importance of the dialogue between voice and electronics. \nFiat Lux is the first full-length album and is an exploration of the concept of cyclicality through memory\, nostalgia and the evocation of feelings. The love poems written by Sappho of Lesbos or traditional Sephardic songs deal with the same emotional problems we face as individuals in 2021. Whether in archaic Greece\, in medieval times or in the midst of a global pandemic\, the self goes through the same processes of joy and pain\, closes them and begins again\, unable to avoid the course of things. Each poetic “I” illuminates itself in the midst of all the others to say what it has to say. \nThrough the stories of powerful and time-transcendent characters\, such as the Vingen Mary\, Hildegard of Bingen or the Paixtu tribe of women in Afghanistan\, the timelessness and transcendence of these voices and their discourses are explored\, revisited and sung from today’s perspective. \nTarta Relena are: \nMarta Torrella\, voice and electronics. \nHelena Ros\, voice and electronics.
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SUMMARY:Nubia Yasin: SHEENA
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Nubia Yasin: SHEENA in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, April 1\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 advance | $20 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nShow Description: \nSHEENA\, a show curated and performed by Nubia Yasin\, begs the question “What would make the pain of transformation desirable?” With a blend of original poetry and music\, Yasin tells the story of her own transition from girlhood to womanhood against a backdrop of deep rooted shame. By walking through her own shame\, she aims to allow the audience a chance to shine a light into their darkest corners\, and say to what lives there “I see you. I don’t hate you.” \nArtist Bio: \nNubia Yasin is a Memphis-born writer\, multidisciplinary artist\, and performer. She uses her experiences as a first generation Somali-American living in the South to tell stories about Black femmehood\, with an acute focus on themes related to shame. Her writing has been featured in projects for Netflix\, Apple Music\, and more. She’s performed in galleries and museums across the United states. \nHer first full collection of poetry\, The Blood and Body\, was published in August 2022 with HomieHousePress.
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SUMMARY:The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot and the Jazz Bins
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot and the Jazz Bins at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $35-45 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Bad Plus \nReid Anderson (bass)\, Dave King (drums)\, Ben Monder (guitar)\, Chris Speed (saxophone) \nThe Bad Plus are the ultimate originals. A democratic unit with a clear vision and a refusal to conform to convention. For the past two decades they have played with spirit and adventure\, made their own rules and done so with a bold sense of creativity and intent. Avoiding easy categorization\, The Bad Plus has won critical acclaim and a legion of fans worldwide with their unique sound and flair for live performance. \nNow in their 21st year\, The Bad Plus continues to push boundaries as founding members Reid Anderson (bass) and Dave King (drums) embark on a new piano-less incarnation of the band with Ben Monder (guitar) and Chris Speed (tenor saxophone) – instigating a new wave of excitement and anticipation within the band that is re-energizing their sound and inspiration. The Bad Plus have constantly searched to bridge genres and techniques while exploring the infinite possibilities of exceptional musicians working in perfect sync. \nThe Bad Plus is set to release their 15th studio recording and debut self-titled album as a dynamic new quartet via Edition Records on Friday\, September 30th. “Evolution is necessary for life and creativity\,” say Dave King and Reid Anderson. “We’ve evolved\, but we’re still The Bad Plus.” \nMarc Ribot & The Jazz Bins \nMarc Ribot (guitar)\, Greg Lewis (organ)\, Joe Dyson (drums) \nMarc Ribot’s four months with jazz organ legend Brother Jack McDuff were his first ever with an internationally touring artist. Their 1979 itinerary included Ribot’s first concerts in Europe\, and his only to date in Gary\, Indiana and Rochester\, NY. Although the two never recorded together (due to artistic differences that became apparent in Ribot’s later work…Brother Jack reportedly spent much of their stage time fixing Ribot with what side musicians referred to as his “death ray”)\, Ribot never lost his affection for McDuff’s music and the Hammond organ dominated Soul Jazz scene from which it emerged. Says Ribot: “McDuff’s US audiences—the so-called ‘Chitlin Circuit— were just the hippest in the world: sophisticated about the music\, definitely…but also demanding the deepest soul while rewarding restraint in its expression. What this brought out in the musicians was every bit as intense as the music taking shape at CBGBs at the time. In fact\, I always felt the two scenes had something in common\, and I’ve been trying to express exactly what ever since.” \nFellow Jazz-Bin\, Greg Lewis\, is not only one of the greatest virtuosos of the Hammond b3 organ alive\, but perhaps the only one willing and able to haul a real Hammond b3 and Leslie speaker cabinet to live gigs in NYC! Says Ribot: “Greg is NYC’s best kept secret. He can tell a story on the Hammond like nobody else.” Rounded out with a TBA guest drummer\, The Jazz-Bins use deep grooves and over the top improvisation to channel the spirits of Newark’s Key Club Sparky J’s Lounge\, and NYC’s CBGB’s c/a 1977 into a quest for punk/soul salvation. The Jazz-Bins go— not exactly ‘ancient’\, but ‘back’— to the future\, to tap into a scene that never really existed (but should have\, will\, and does whenever people drop their preconceptions about ‘genre’ long enough to feel the groove)\, and a vibe that never really stopped. Dig it! \nNew Orleans native Joe Dyson has certainly been one to watch. He started playing music in his family’s church at just two years old. After being noticed for his peculiar talent\, Joe was placed in the Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp where he was shadowed by the late\, great clarinetist Alvin Batiste\, and his longtime band leader and mentor\, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison. He went on to graduate from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)\, and earned a Presidential Scholarship to his alma mater Berklee College of Music. \nJoe has shared the stage with Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Ellis Marsalis\, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah\, Jon Batiste\, Leo Nocentelli\, Sullivan Fortner\, Dirty Dozen Brass Band\, Pedrito Martinez\, Grammy Award winners Nicholas Payton and Pat Metheny among others.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/the-bad-plus-marc-ribot-and-the-jazz-bins/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:SpiralPhonics
DESCRIPTION:The Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 in advance | $20 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nSpiralPhonics is an instrumental music trio founded in 2021 by saxophonist Art Edmaiston\, guitarist Logan Hanna and percussionist Terence F. Clark. The musical direction of the group focuses on original compositions and improvisations woven together using the energy of the moment. October 2022 marked the release of their debut live album “The Argot Session” and the band is currently working on new music for an upcoming studio recording. \nMelodic twists and churning rhythms challenge the listener to open the lens of expectation and allow themselves to be transported through the air on surging spikes of energy freely flowing into funky cascades of textural grooves and harmonic surprises. \nInspiration – Vibrations – Reflections – Intention \nFor this concert in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts\, SpiralPhonics will give a rare performance as an expanded quartet. \nJoining Edmaiston and Hanna for this show is the phenomenal PeeWee Jackson on drums with fiery up-and-coming bassist Liam O’dell rounding out the quartet. SpiralPhonics is a musical group drawing from a deep well of influences and experiences. The members are always open to the unlimited possibilities of the moment and that is what makes each performance special and not to be missed! \n  \nBlurbs: \n“Extra\, extra! Read all about it! Irresistible force of Downtown Free Improv collides with immovable object of Memphis pocket!” – Charlie Hunter / Artist; Producer  \n“This shiet snuggly fye mane!” – MonoNeon / Bassist; Artist  \n“Bro\, this album ain’t an album. It is a soundbath. It’s a journey around the world. I meditate to it.” – Propaganda / HipHop Artist; Author; Writer \n“From fiery jazz to deep ambient beauty to the funkiest soul music\, this music captures the sound and essence of Memphis in a fashion only made possible by a group of some of its most respected and skilled artists from the past two decades. Deeply emotional\, raw\, and sometimes even danceable; inspiring sounds from the South.” – Chad Fowler / Mahakala Music
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SUMMARY:Makaya McCraven
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Makaya McCraven at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $25 advance | $30 day of the show \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nMakaya McCraven is a prolific drummer\, composer\, and producer. \nHis newest album\, In These Times\, is the triumphant finale of a project seven-plus years in the making. It’s a preeminent addition to his already-acclaimed and extensive discography\, and it’s the album he’s been trying to make since he started making records. \nMcCraven believes that the word “jazz” is “insufficient\, at best\, to describe the phenomenon we’re dealing with.” The artist\, who has been aptly called a “cultural synthesizer”\, has a unique gift for collapsing space\, destroying borders and blending past\, present\, and future into poly-textural arrangements of post-genre\, jazz-rooted 21st century folk music. Profiled in Vice\, Rolling Stone\, the Guardian\, and NPR\, among other publications\, he and the music he makes today are at the very vanguard of that phenomenon. According to the New York Times\, “McCraven has quietly become one of the best arguments for jazz’s vitality.” The artist explained to NPR in 2019\, “I don’t think what I’m doing is necessarily that far off of the legacy of jazz that I grew up in … I think one of the things that gives it strength is that people want to argue over it. That’s a good sign. That means there’s life here.” \nBorn in Paris in the Autumn of 1983 to Hungarian singer and flutist Ágnes Zsigmondi and African-American expat jazz drummer Stephen McCraven\, Makaya was raised in a vibrant\, creative community in the Northampton\, Massachusetts area\, where his father often played with artists like saxophonist and ethnomusicologist Marion Brown\, multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef\, and saxophonist Archie Shepp\, as well as a cadre of African Gnawa musicians. That scene\, with its enticing blend of cultures\, helped establish his philosophy around jazz as folk music. Meanwhile\, his mother’s music blended Eastern European folk traditions\, concurrently shaping his conceptions about the role of music in building and reflecting communities. \n“I’m really drawn to folk music. Music of aural tradition\, music that is of the people where it’s more of a collective experience of music and dance and culture that we all participate in and know as part of our being or as part of who we are.” He sees his work as a continuation of those traditions\, noting\, “I like to teach the music to musicians by ear\, and hope even when I bring in more challenging rhythms\, or difficult time signatures\, I am able to do it in a way that is of the body and of the people of the earth in a way that’s not necessarily some intellectual experiment\, but more something that’s dealing with people.” \nWhile immersed as a youth in global folk traditions\, he was also a child of the nineties\, deeply influenced by sample-based hip-hop. He observed that jazz was sometimes perceived by his peers as “something that was old\, corny\, white… going to get you beat up.” This directly countered his own experience with the music: “That was such a strange idea to me\, because the guys I grew up around were cool\, and [weren’t] buttoned up like that.” \nEventually he discovered bridges between jazz and hip-hop\, including classic jazz records being sampled by hip-hop producers such as Pete Rock\, and began to devote energy to “reappropriate this music to be what it is\, what it means to me\, and what it means for my people.” \nAfter cutting his teeth in the Western Massachusetts music scene\, co-founding a jazz-hip hop band called Cold Duck Complex that ultimately opened for The Pharcyde\, Digable Planets\, and the Wu-Tang Clan\, he and his partner (now wife\, comparative race studies scholar Nitasha Tamar Sharma) moved to Chicago in 2006. McCraven soon found himself immersed in both the creative and straight-ahead jazz scenes\, proving his versatility\, and along the way finding a community that mirrored the pulsating scene that birthed him artistically. Within five years’ time\, he’d established a name for himself\, gigging alongside scene stalwarts like Willie Pickens\, Marquis Hill and Jeff Parker. \nHe first connected with the founders of Chicago’s International Anthem label in late 2011\, and across 2012-2013 they hosted and recorded a series of improvised jazz nights featuring his combo at The Bedford\, a club situated in what was once an old basement bank vault. McCraven took 48 hours of recordings and sculpted beguiling hip-hop beats\, not unlike how Teo Macero looped and assembled Miles Davis’ On the Corner from improvised magic. At the time\, McCraven thought of the project\, which became the 2015 double LP release In The Moment\, as an opportunity to connect and to “find a young audience in this music. It just felt like the right time and a place where I could really connect with people.” That notion proved prophetic: JazzTimes called the album “one of the year’s most mesmerizing releases\,” the record was an “Album of the Week” pick by taste-making DJ Gilles Peterson on BBC 6 Music\, and it was chosen for “Best of 2015” lists by PopMatters\, NPR\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nMcCraven continued to hone his process of live improvisation and sampling with Highly Rare in 2017 (crafted from a live set recorded at Danny’s Tavern in Chicago)\, 2018’s Where We Come From(CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape)\, which was built from recordings of a showcase at London’s Total Refreshment Centre\, and Universal Beings (also released in 2018). Universal Beings\, consisting of augmented live sessions in Chicago and New York\, in addition to pop-up studio sessions in London and Los Angeles\, concretely reflects his borderless multi-national ethos. The work featured varying configurations of international players\, including Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings from London\, Junius Paul and Tomeka Reid of Chicago\, Anna Butterss and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson from Los Angeles\, and Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas from New York. \nThe title of the album was culled from a sampled passage on the track “Brighter Days Beginning\,” in which percussionist Carlos Niño offers\, “We’re universal beings\,” a theme of borderlessness that resonated deeply with McCraven\, who grew up in a multicultural household and community. “I’m not beholden to this border or this city\,” McCraven told Vice in 2018\, “What is a place? Other than the people. It’s just dirt\, you know?” The resulting album was called “radiant” and “hypnotic” by Pitchfork. \nIn 2019\, McCraven both delivered a triumphant Jazz Night in America performance at South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago\, and mounted a multimedia performance of an early iteration of what became his new album In These Times\, at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. \nIn the meantime\, he remixed Gil Scott-Heron’s final album (2010’s I’m New Here) for 2020’s We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven\, issued Universal Beings E+F Sides(also in 2020)\, and delved into the venerable Blue Note Records catalog in 2021 for Deciphering the Message\, each project also employing new improvisations and sampling\, helping to further cement his “beat scientist” moniker. Concurrently\, the seeds for 2022’sIn These Times were budding\, and their nurseries were stages around the globe. McCraven explains\, “As I’ve been touring\, I’ve been performing music off of the record In These Times… When In the Moment took off and I started touring a lot\, we would go on the road and 50% of the music was just my concept and my compositions.” \nIn These Times\, a collection of polytemporal compositions inspired as much by broader cultural struggles as McCraven’s personal experience as a product of a multinational\, working class musician community\, is the recording that McCraven has been trying to create for 7+ years\, as it’s been slowly cooking in the background while his other works were released. He began recording In These Times seven years ago\, but “for whatever reason\, Universal Beings just came to fruition much quicker. It just took more time for this to mature into everything it’s become. With the success of Universal Beings and the Universal Beings concerts that we did (with Red Bull) in Chicago at South Shore Cultural Center and le poisson rouge in New York\, I had an opportunity to realize the record not as a collection of four sides of trios and quartets\, but I turned that record as a performance into a 10 to 12-person concert\, and that experience ended up evolving my approach to In These Times.” \nIn These Times encompasses all he’s lived through\, as well as his lineage\, while also pushing the music forward. Music critic Passion of the Weiss suggested that “McCraven’s work\, both with younger players and the sounds of older recordings\, is part of a necessary conversation about the next evolution of the Black improvised music known colloquially as ‘jazz.’ He’s found the threads connecting the past with the present\, and is either wrapping them with new colors and textures\, or he’s plucking them gleefully like the strings of a grand instrument.” McCraven concurs: “To me\, that is the tradition that I want to try to take part in. Being well-rooted\, but walking into the future\, is really what all of the leaders in this music have done that I admire. And I think that resonates with people. Something that’s like how we know it\, but is evolving… It’s just where I am at\, where we’re at\, and the evolution of that\, and that’s what I’m trying to be.”
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/makaya-mccraven/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Nathan Graybeal Quintet
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\nShow begins at 6 pm\nTickets: Free \nNathan Graybeal is a product of his time\, growing up in the digital information age and utilizing his long history of videography by mixing it with his love for the saxophone. Within 4 years\, he has accumulated over 20 million views on his YouTube channel known as “Saxologic.” After acquiring his master’s degree in jazz performance at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami\, Nathan is currently pursuing a DMA in Classical Saxophone at the University of Memphis.\n\nNathan Graybeal\, alto saxophone\nEli Wyatt\, tenor saxophone\nJacob Loreant\, guitar\nLiam O’Dell\, bass\nZack Graybeal\, drums
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/nathan-graybeal-quintet/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230326T203000
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SUMMARY:Strictly Jazz: The Music of Bill Evans
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Strictly Jazz: The Music of Bill Evans in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSunday\, March 26\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show at 7 pm\nTickets: $15 in advance | $20 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Crosstown Strictly Jazz Series\, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts\, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends. \nThis show features Gerald Stephens (piano)\, Art Edmaiston (tenor saxophone)\, Marc Franklin (trumpet/flugelhorn)\, Neal Bowen (bass)\, and Mike Assad (drums) with a special live painting experience by RODAN. \nAbout Strictly Jazz: \nStrictly Jazz Entertainment is committed to cultivating a growing community in the knowledge and appreciation of jazz. Strictly Jazz Entertainment facilitates dialogue and collaboration between the devoted supporters of jazz and the brand new constituents — those new to the genre — for the furthering of the jazz community. Strictly Jazz provides a bridge between leading artists and a community that typically does not embrace jazz by promoting concerts in various venues to generate an atmosphere that is viable for the absorption of pure jazz.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/strictly-jazz-the-music-of-bill-evans/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230325T220000
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SUMMARY:Morgan James (SOLD OUT!)
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Morgan James in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, March 25\, 2023\nDoors: 7 pm | Show: 7:30 pm\nVIP Entry at 6:15 pm | VIP meet-and-greet and performance at 6:30 pm\nTickets: $25 | VIP package available with additional $35 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n“A phenomenal talent whose feel for classic soul music is bone deep…This woman is on fire.” — The New York Times \nMorgan James is a Juilliard trained singer\, actress\, songwriter and recording artist in New York City. \nMorgan recently co-produced and starred in an all-female concept recording of “Jesus Christ Superstar” entitled “She Is Risen”. She independently released her studio albums of original soul music\, entitled Memphis Magnetic\, and A Very Magnetic Christmas recorded to analog tape in Memphis\, Tennessee. Other albums include “Reckless Abandon”\, which prompted the Huffington Post to call MJ the “Brightest Breakout Artist of the Year”. Last year\, Morgan took on a full album cover of the Beatles’ iconic ‘White Album’ to celebrate the 50th anniversary; available on CD\, vinyl\, digital and full length concept video on her YouTube channel. She also took on Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” and covered it in its entirety. Morgan recorded two full-length albums with Epic Records: “Hunter”\, an album of original R&B\, and “Morgan James Live\, a celebration of Nina Simone”. All of her music can be found on all streaming platforms\, and hard copies on her website or at shows. \nOn Broadway\, Morgan was in five back-to-back original companies: The Addams Family (starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth)\, Wonderland\, Godspell and Motown: The Musical\, and as a guest at Kristin Chenoweth’s For The Girls. \nWith viral sensation Postmodern Jukebox and with her own YouTube channel\, Morgan’s music videos have accumulated more than 260 million views (and climbing). \nFor info\, tour tickets and new album updates\, please visit www.morganjamesonline.com. @morganajames
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/morgan-james/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230325T210000
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SUMMARY:Red Bull Dance Your Style
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nSaturday\, March 25\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $5 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nRed Bull Dance Your Style is returning to Memphis — challenging some of the best dancers in the US. Competitors will enter epic 1-on-1 battles\, bringing improvisation to a new level. Unpredictable tunes\, from mainstream hits to timeless classics\, fire up the dance floor\, allowing dancers to showcase their skills and wow the crowd! And here’s the catch — the crowd are the judge! Red Bull Dance Your Style Memphis is going down at Crosstown Concourse on March 25\, 2023. Save the date! \n\n\nThe winner of Red Bull Dance Your Style Memphis will compete in the National Finals May 20\, 2023\, in Chicago. \nIf you are interested in competing\, register for auditions near you here: https://win.gs/auditions
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/red-bull-dance-your-style/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230324T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230324T200000
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SUMMARY:Memphis Symphony Orchestra: MOZART AND ELECTRIC GUITAR CONCERTO
DESCRIPTION:Paul and Linnea Bert Classic Accents Series · 3\nMOZART AND ELECTRIC GUITAR CONCERTO\nFriday\, March 24\, 2023 · 6:30pm\nCrosstown Theater \nPurchase tickets here \nFriday\, March 24\, 2023 | 6:30pm | Crosstown Theater \nKalena Bovell\, conductor\nD.J. Sparr\, composer and electric guitar \nHAHN  Overture to Mozart\nSPARR Violet Bond: Electric Guitar Concerto\nVILLA-LOBOS  Sinfonietta No. 1\nMOZART  Symphony No. 31 “Paris” \nA concert of musical dedications: Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony headlines this concert\, paired with works dedicated to him by two South American composers\, Reynaldo Hahn and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Young composer and performer\, D.J. Sparr brings his breathtaking electric guitar concerto\, also dedicated to his musical inspiration: his grandmother\, Violet Bond.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/memphis-symphony-orchestra-mozart-and-electric-guitar-concerto/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230323T220000
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SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Iron & Wine: Back to Basics – Part Three With Anna Mieke
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Iron & Wine: Back to Basics — Part Three with Anna Mieke at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nThursday\, March 23\, 2023\nDoors at 6 pm | Show at 7 pm\nTicketing: $40-70 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nIron & Wine is the musical project of singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Born and raised in South Carolina\, Beam was teaching film when his home recorded debut\, The Creek Drank the Cradle\, was released on Sub Pop records in 2002. Garnering both critical and popular acclaim\, Beam was vaulted into the spotlight of the burgeoning indie-folk and Americana scenes. Now entering its 20th year\, Iron & Wine have released seven full length recordings\, numerous EPs / singles\, and collaborations with Calexico\, Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses) and Jesca Hoop all on their way to becoming a four-time GRAMMY nominee. Iron & Wine’s music has captured the emotion and imagination of listeners with their distinctly cinematic songs; in particular they’ve become synonymous with the movies Twilight and Garden State and continue to find a home in your favorite film\, TV show or streaming playlist. As the world continues to spin — so do Iron & Wine continue on their path of releasing new music and touring. \nAnna Mieke’s world radiates with an intense heat that lies closer to the desert or the jungle than her hometown of Wicklow\, Ireland. On her second album Theatre\, she invites listeners into this warmth\, enveloping us in a vivid dreamscape that mirrors her lush and adventurous upbringing. Her music is the⁠ surreal soundtrack of a vast personal plain steeped in nostalgia\, family\, memory\, death and dreaming—where gritty reality and romanticism meet. This duality is the thematic core of Theatre\, which focuses on the conflict between permanence and temporality\, the immaterial and material\, and how memories of places and people fade\, warp\, and reinvent themselves over time.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/iron-wine-back-to-basics-part-three/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230322T190000
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SUMMARY:Memphis Jazz Through the Lens with Michael Kelley
DESCRIPTION:Memphis Listening Lab\nWednesday\, March 22\, 2023\nTalk begins at 6 pm\nTickets: Free and open to the public \nMemphis-based jazz aficionado Michael Kelley presents his collection of photographs of jazz luminaries preserving the deep\, rich history of the artform.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/memphis-jazz-through-the-lens-with-michael-kelley/
LOCATION:Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230321T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230321T220000
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SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT!) SONGBIRDS: A Tribute to Women in Jazz
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Stax Music Academy: SONGBIRDS: A Tribute to Women in Jazz in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nTuesday\, March 21\, 2023\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $10 GA (Free for SMA students and faculty) \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nTo celebrate Women’s History Month\, the jazz department at the Stax Music Academy will present a tribute to the pioneers and powerhouses that have blazed trails for women worldwide in jazz. The concert will feature SMA’s jazz vocal ensemble\, Kind Of Blue\, named after the iconic 1959 Miles Davis album. The vocalists will be accompanied by a band of instrumentalists from the SMA Jazz Department. This tribute includes nods to the music of Ella Fitzgerald\, Nancy Wilson\, Nina Simone\, and even contemporary artists like Esperanza Spalding and Jamila Woods. The music will speak to the strength\, elegance\, innovation\, and devotion that women have embodied in the evolution across the diaspora of modern jazz music. \nThe Stax Music Academy jazz department\, under the direction of SMA alumnus Kori Wallace\, currently hosts three main ensembles. The premiere group\, The Legacy Quintet\, boldly carries the torch of Memphis’ rich musical history and features the program’s four top performing instrumentalists and top performing vocalist. Kind Of Blue\, our jazz vocal ensemble\, provides vocalists the opportunity to dive deeply into the nuances of the jazz language spoken by some of the greatest voices in American music. Lastly\, we have the newly minted Phineas Newborn Jazz Orchestra. The PNJO shines a light on one of the titans of Memphis jazz\, and creates the space for students to develop in large ensemble performance. The overall mission of the jazz department is to provide an environment for students to tap into the roots of Memphis music through its deep connection to jazz. Through that connection\, students are also able to develop in their approaches to the many styles synonymous with this great city.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/songbirds-a-tribute-to-women-in-jazz/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230317T210000
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SUMMARY:The Otis Mission
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents The Otis Mission in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nFriday\, March 17\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 in advance | $20 at the door ($10 students) \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Otis Mission is led by veteran drummer and prominent Memphis musician\, James Otis Sexton. \nWhile James is widely known as a versatile drummer\, having performed\, toured\, or recorded with several world renowned and Grammy-winning artists\, he is least known as a composer. For this reason\, “The Otis Mission” was created\, and it will solely perform James’ original musical compositions. \nBecause he’s performed in a plethora of musical genres including gospel\, jazz\, fusion\, rhythm & blues\, hip hop\, salsa\, and more\, it’s no surprise that his music would reflect just that. \nThis promises to be a fun night of music and the inception of a new staple in Memphis music heritage. \nThis ensemble consists of James Sexton (drums)\, Tony Dickerson (keys)\, Alvie Givhan (keys)\, Deante Payne (mallets)\, Joe Restivo (guitar)\, and Ted Partin (bass).
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/the-otis-mission/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230317T193000
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SUMMARY:University of Memphis Jazz Combo 1
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nFriday\, March 17\, 2023\nShow begins at 6 pm\nTickets: Free \nUnder the direction of Dr. Michael Shults\, University of Memphis Jazz Combo 1 is the top performing small group jazz ensemble at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music. The all-star combo specializes in compositions by post-bop jazz masters including Wayne Shorter\, Christian McBride\, Kenny Garrett\, and Memphis’s own James Williams. \nNathan Graybeal\, alto saxophone \nEli Wyatt\, tenor saxophone \nJacob Loreant\, guitar \nLogan Clark\, bass \nJacob Bross\, drums
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/university-of-memphis-jazz-combo-1/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230315T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T105129
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema: A String of Pearls
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: A String of Pearls – The Films of Camille Billops and James Hatch.  \nCrosstown Theater\nWednesday\, March 15\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm\nTickets: Pay-What-You-Can \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nIndie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are proud to present three films from A String of Pearls: The Films of Camille Billops and James Hatch. Newly restored\, these three shorts\, Take Your Bags\, Older Women and Love\, and Suzanne\, Suzanne\, highlight the longtime creative partnership of artists\, writers\, and filmmakers Camille Billops and James Hatch. \nMany of the six films they made together pull from and explore Billops’ specific point of view\, her life\, and the lives of her family. These films are singular\, deeply creative\, and incisive in their examination of the stripping of culture and identity because of slavery (Take Your Bags)\, the experiences of love and dating later in life (Older Women and Love)\, and the deep ripple effects that abuse has on a relationship between mother and daughter (Suzanne\, Suzanne). \nWe’re grateful to Malkah Manouel and Third World Newsreel for making this MicroCinema possible!
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/microcinema-a-string-of-pearls/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230314T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230314T220000
DTSTAMP:20260404T105129
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SUMMARY:Peter Bernstein with the Ted Ludwig Trio
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Modern Masters: Peter Bernstein with the Ted Ludwig in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nTuesday\, March 14\, 2023\n$25 | $20 in advance ($10 student tickets at the door)\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n​​Jazz guitarist Peter Bernstein has been a part of the jazz scene in New York and abroad since 1989. During that time he has participated in numerous recordings and performances with musicians from all generations. As a leader\, Peter has released nine albums and a DVD. As a sideman Peter has appeared in groups led by Sonny Rollins\, Bobby Hutcherson\, George Coleman\, Lou Donaldson\, Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Fathead Newman\, Joshua Redman\, Brad Mehldau\, Diana Krall\, Lee Konitz\, Jimmy Cobb\, and many more. Current projects include his album\, Monk\, with Doug Weiss and Bill Stewart\, a recently released solo record\, Solo Guitar – Live at Smalls\, and the highly acclaimed organ trio with organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart. \n“Peter’s an extremely elegant musician with a gorgeous tone that seems to relax you when you hear it.” – The Jazz Bakery\, Los Angeles \n“The jazz guitarist\, among the most sought after in the New York area\, has a feather-light touch\, an encyclopedic knowledge of chords and the ability to play standards like he’s inventing them on the spot.” – The Los Angeles Daily News \n“Mr. Bernstein is a fluidly improvising guitarist in the post-bop tradition\, with control over harmony and a beautiful sound.” – The New York Times
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/peter-bernstein-with-the-ted-ludwig-trio/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230314T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T105129
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SUMMARY:Dave Spencer Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nTuesday\, March 14\, 2023\nShow begins at 6 pm\nTickets: Free \nDave Spencer\, trumpet\nAlvie Givhan\, piano\nJames Sexton\, drums\nSam Shoup\, bass
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/dave-spencer-quartet/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230311T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T105129
CREATED:20230203T175535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T175627Z
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SUMMARY:Deepstaria Enigmatica
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Deepstaria Enigmatica: Memphibians Rising from the Mud\, Making Musical Moods in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, March 11\, 2023\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 advance | $20 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nDeepstaria Enigmatica is a quintet of improvisers from Memphis\, Tennessee\, dedicated to creating otherworldly soundscapes. Named for a rarely seen\, bell-shaped jellyfish discovered by Jacques Cousteau\, the group’s every note is inspired by that famous ocean explorer’s sense of discovery. But don’t assume the five veteran musicians create only chaos: they are as attuned to melodies and harmonies as they are to fine gradations of noise. What emerges with each extemporaneous performance can range from dark swirls of frenetic fury\, to interplanetary hard bop\, to sunlit\, ambient dreamscapes punctuated with snatches of folk song. \nThe diverse experience of the players sets the tone for their deep dives: \nDavid Collins is the composer and guitarist behind Frog Squad\, a Memphis group who have blended jazz improvisation with visionary music as disparate as that of Horace Silver and Erik Satie; he’s equally at home playing simple\, unfettered guitar lines or rocking\, effects-drenched rave ups. \nChad Fowler played alto saxophone with both Frank Lowe and George Cartwright in the 1990s\, and now teams up with the likes of William Parker\, Kidd Jordan\, Ivo Perelman\, Zoh Amba\, Matthew Shipp\, or Brian Blade for music released on the Mahakala Music label; in Deepstaria Enigmatica\, he also plays bass flute and an Otamatone portable synthesizer. \nKeyboardist Alex Greene first studied musique concrète and computer synthesis with composer Judy Klein in the 1980s\, before playing in a variety of Memphis groups ranging from Alex Chilton to Big Ass Truck to Reigning Sound\, not to mention over twenty years of work with New York composer Dave Soldier; now he improvises with multiple keyboards simultaneously\, including a vintage Roland Juno-106. \nSince completing his jazz studies at the University of Memphis in 2016\, drummer Jon Harrison has cast a wide stylistic net with the groups he’s joined\, which include the Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra\, Frog Squad\, Hope Calyburn’s Soul Scrimmage\, Joe Austin\, Roderick Duran\, PXLS\, and the Church Brothers. \nBassist Khari Wynn\, best known as the guitarist for hip hop sensations Public Enemy\, regularly tests more unorthodox waters with groups such as Energy Disciples\, often under the name Mysterioso Africano. \nTogether\, these five musos cohere with a surprising unity of purpose\, as their listening and playing gel into what often sound like prepared compositions. Sharing an uncanny telepathy\, they transport listeners to new worlds of musical possibility.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/deepstaria-enigmatica/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Ole Miss Jazz Combo
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nSaturday\, March 11\, 2023\nShow begins at 6 pm\nTickets: Free \nWith a lineage that goes back to the late 1890s\, the University of Mississippi’s jazz ensemble is one of the oldest in the nation. By 1927\, the group adopted the name “The Mississippians\,” which is still in use today by the premier ensemble of Ole Miss Jazz. Throughout the 20 th century\, Ole Miss Jazz groups performed regularly at social functions on campus\, gave concerts\, and toured throughout the South. More recently\, Ole Miss Jazz groups have performed at the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival in South Bend\, IN\, the National Convention of the Jazz Education Network\, and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. The Mississippians Jazz Ensemble will perform this summer at Jazz à Juan and Jazz in Marciac festivals in France and Jazzaldia in Spain. \nDirected by Dr. Michael Worthy\, Ole Miss Jazz includes two 18-piece big bands (The Mississippians and The Collegians)\, two student combos\, a faculty combo\, a traditional jazz combo\, and the UM Salsa Project in collaboration with the Percussion Studio under the direction of Prof. Ricky Burkhead. \nLearn more at: www.jazz.olemiss.edu
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/ole-miss-jazz-combo/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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SUMMARY:MAR10 Day
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nFriday\, March 10\, 2023\nEvents: 6-8 pm\nTickets: Free and open to the public \nMar10 Day is an annual salute to the entire Mario franchise. It takes place on March 10 each year because the date\, written as “Mar10\,” looks uncannily like “Mario.” The event gained traction on the internet as fans of the Mario franchise shared their love for the character online. \nCrosstown Concourse will celebrate the holiday with a performance from Memphis’ own video game-themed band PXLS\, old school arcade games\, video game-themed mini golf\, a portrait booth (perfect if you’re dressing up in video game-inspired attire!)\, video game-themed temporary tattoos\, and more! \nPXLS\, returning to Crosstown Concourse in celebration of the Better Together event\, is a Memphis-based video game music cover band with their own unique take on video game music. They play classic 8-bit and 16-bit era songs and invite listeners to relive the soundtrack to their childhoods. In addition to classic console game-inspired music\, the band’s repertoire spans several genres like rock\, jazz\, and reggae.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/mar10-day/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arts Film Series presents THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE at Crosstown Theater. \nLuis Buñuel / 1972 / 102 minutes / PG \nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nIn Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece\, an upper-middle-class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed\, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events both actual and imagined\, including terrorist attacks\, military maneuvers\, and ghostly apparitions. Stringing together a discontinuous\, digressive series of absurdist set pieces\, Buñuel and his screenwriting partner Jean-Claude Carrière send a cast of European-film greats — including Fernando Rey\, Stéphane Audran\, Delphine Seyrig\, Jean-Pierre Cassel\, and Bulle Ogier — through a maze of desire deferred\, frustrated\, and interrupted. The Oscar-winning pinnacle of Buñuel’s late-career ascent as a feted maestro of the international art house\, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is also one of his most gleefully radical assaults on the values of the ruling class. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/crosstown-arts-film-series-presents-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Standard 4-Pack
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nThursday\, March 9\, 2023\nShow begins at 6:30 pm\nTickets: Free \nStandard 4-Pack is led by Victor Sawyer and features Randy Ballard (trumpet)\, Victor Sawyer (trombone)\, Stephen Lee (piano)\, and Neal Bowen (bass)\, performing a selection of favorite jazz standards.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/standard-4-pack/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230304T193000
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SUMMARY:Charu Suri
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Charu Suri in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, March 4\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 ($10 students) \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n“Charu’s raga-based improvisations are singular.” – Multi Grammy-award winning pianist Arturo O’Farrill \nPianist and composer Charu Suri treads fearlessly between genres\, pulling global influences that range from the mood-anchoring Indian ragas\, Sufi music\, to the trio. Her ground-breaking albums\, The Book of Ragas\, and its sequel\, The Book of Ragas vol. 2 have often elicited the response\, “I’ve never heard this type of sound before.” \nOne of the few female composers from India to perform work at Carnegie Hall\, Charu has lived in four continents\, and writes music that reflect her journey as both a traveler and her training as a classical music piano prodigy. She has been playing the piano since the age of five\, and performing since the age of nine\, and one of her best memories is winning an international piano competition at the age of 15. \nWhat started purely as an experiment with her “Book of Ragas” has turned into a niche that she is now increasingly becoming known for. Her latest album is RAGAS & WALTZES\, a first collaboration between her and Preservation Hall’s jazz drummer\, Joe Lastie. \nIn this album\, dedicated to her late father\, she explores European waltzes through her own jazz lens. The album also includes two ragas\, performed by guitarist Noshir Mody and flutes by Al Jewer. RAGAS & WALTZES has received a lot of praise from critics. JAZZIZ Magazine has praised its classic reinvention of the European waltz\, and All About Jazz said\, “These are all Suri originals\, with which she creates a mood that is a mix\, tune-by-tune\, of longing and solemnity\, then of a lilting and uplifting beauty\, segueing into tender reverence that shifts gear into a segment of lively swing before drifting back to loving respect. And that swing is surely inspired by New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s drummer\, Joe Lastie\, Jr.\, sitting in the recording session’s drummer’s chair.” \nBut she is no stranger to the art of the Songbook too (attribute this to her listening to numerous records of Bill Evans and Billie Holiday as a kid). “The New American Songbook” has garnered many awards\, including a “Band Single of the Year” crystal trophy for her song\, Bluesy\, awarded by the International Singer-Songwriters Association (ISSA) in 2021. \nCharu has performed at Lincoln Center and other prestigious concert halls around the world\, including St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She often performs with her band\, and sometimes as a soloist. She embarks on a multi-city RAGAS & WALTZES tour to India starting with a performance at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai\, on September 16th.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/charu-suri/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230303T210000
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SUMMARY:Patrice Williamson\, Jenna McLean\, and Deborah Swiney
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Patrice Williamson\, Jenna McLean\, and Deborah Swiney with the Michael Shults Quartet in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nFriday\, March 3\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 in advance | $20 at the door | $10 student tickets available \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThree of the most legendary women in jazz unite for one special performance\, backed up by the Michael Shults Quartet. \nPATRICE WILLIAMSON \nJazz Times magazine states that “Patrice Williamson isn’t a singer\, she’s a one-woman jazz sampler. –­ She is a woman of many voices\, each distinctly intriguing all distinctly her own.” \nPatrice Williamson’s childhood home in Memphis\, Tennessee\, was filled with song. Her late father\, Webster Williamson\, an avid amateur singer\, choir director\, and pillar of the St. Stephen’s Baptist Church music ministry\, introduced his children to both sacred music and the secular styles of greats like Louis Armstrong\, Nat King Cole\, and Lena Horne. With the encouragement of her mother\, Lillie Rivers Williamson\, Patrice followed in the footsteps of her elder sister\, Denise\, taking up the violin and making her debut at age four. From then on\, she was hooked on music and performing. \nA favorite of the Boston music scene\, Patrice’s sensitive ballad work and fluent scat style have garnered invitations to perform at the famed Blue Note Jazz club in New York City\, and with many well-known instrumentalists such as Danilo Perez\, Joe Lovano and Terri Lyne Carrington. As a Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music\, her work has taken her to Perugia\, Italy\, Seoul\, South Korea\, Peru and India\, where she performed with saxophonist Donald Harrison in the New Delhi Jazz Festival. \nHer independent recordings\, My Shining Hour and Free to Dream\, have received high praise from jazz critics around the country. In 2014 Patrice started The Ella Project\, a multi-faceted tribute leading up to Ella Fitzgerald’s 100th birthday\, including a concert series\, biographical performance\, and recordings\, including Comes Love\, an album celebrating the collaboration between Fitzgerald and legendary guitarist Joe Pass. \nJENNA MCLEAN \nJenna McLean is a jazz vocalist and Lecturer in Music and Entertainment at the University of Memphis Lambuth in Jackson\, Tennessee. As an accomplished performer\, vocal technician\, songwriter\, and educator\, she finds her artistic drive in bringing new twists to timeless standards of the Great American Songbook as well as pop\, funk\, and soul tunes. With a love and devotion for jazz\, opera\, R&B\, and folk music\, she maintains the belief that all music is good music as long as it speaks to the soul and grooves. \nJenna was the 2019 winner of the Downbeat Student Music Awards Graduate Vocal Soloist Category\, and a 2019 recent recipient of the Pathways to Jazz Grant. She performs regularly at renowned Colorado Jazz Venues including Dazzle and Nocturne\, and has performed and presented multiple times at the Jazz Education Network conference and the Five Points Jazz Festival in Denver. She has had the pleasure of performing alongside renowned musicians such as Bobby McFerrin\, Aubrey Logan and the New York Voices\, and also performs regularly with incredible Denver-based jazz musicians such as Steve Kovalcheck\, Ben Markley\, Eric Gunnison\, Tom Amend\, Dawn Clement\, Annie Booth and others. \nDEBORAH SWINEY \nDeborah Swiney has definitely earned the title of a true chanteuse. Throughout her performance\, you get to enjoy a trip back to Harlem to experience the iconic era of Billie Holiday\, Ella Fitzgerald\, and Sarah Vaughn; you get to dance across the Great American Songbook; and you get to take a flight to Rio where you could close your eyes and imagine relaxing on a Copacabana or Ipanema beach. Being a Memphis native\, you might even get a splash of blues. \nIn a city that loves its blues\, rock\, jazz\, and gospel\, Deborah has carved out a niche uniquely her own. This is evident with her highly praised co-produced debut album\, I Remember Rio\, a Brazilian-inspired album with “Memphis-Soul seasoning” (All about Jazz). I Remember Rio is filled with classic Bossa Nova standards and tunes written by the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim as well as Deborah Swiney’s “Bossa Nova Casanova” and guitarist\, Ed Finney’s title song\, “I Remember Rio”. Jazz Weekly describes her as bringing “ a strong and Sarah Vaughan-esque voice to deliver soulful reads of Brazilian…” Transcending the standard definition of a Jazz songstress\, her melodic and sultry approach to Bossa Nova and other Brazilian stylings are natural without betraying her Bluff City roots.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/patrice-williamson-jenna-mclean-and-deborah-swiney/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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