WORLD MUSIC: The Art of Listening & Improvisation
with Composer, Jazz Keyboardist and Music Producer,
David Ornette Cherry
June 14, 2011
An interactive workshop. Bring your instruments and voices!
Our guest speaker, David Ornette Cherry, will delve into:
I. The Art of Listening
- Research and practice of elements common to all music that invites cross-cultural communication.
- The basic practice of musical concepts, available to and beneficial for practically anyone, regardless of their prior level of musical knowledge.
- Creative Relaxation, Liberation Through Sound: music/sound as healing and spiritual practice.
II. The Art of Improvisation
- Personal expression, leading to very specific meetings of the minds.
- The art of group improvisation and interpretation, ways to focus on detail; heightened sensitivity towards elements of rhythm, dynamics, harmonics, sound/silence, regardless of stylistic forms.
- Applying the new experiences to specific compositions of David Ornette Cherry; Practicing and playing in groups, creating works, performing, recording, listening.
This will be a very unique and creative workshop. Attendees are encouraged to participate in an actual hands on performance setting.
WHERE and WHEN
Date: Tuesday, June 14th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: MUSICIANS INSTITUTE
Room P-145
1655 N. McCadden Place
Hollywood, CA 90028
MAP
PARKING
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Public Lots @ McCadden & Hawthorne
and Highland & Hawthorne.
ADMISSION
$15 LAWiM Members (current membership verified)
$15 Student Discount (MUST present valid student photo i.d. at the door)
$25 General Public (all are welcome!)
RSVP by 6pm Monday 06/13/11
Reservations REQUIRED for guaranteed seating. Walk-ups (if space permits).
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Our Speaker
David Ornette Cherry
 David Ornette Cherry is a composer, band leader, jazz keyboardist, and music producer. He grew up in Watts, California, and has played with some of the great jazz artists of our times -- Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Dewey Redman, Nana Vasconcelos, Jim Pepper,Phil Ranelin, Ralph "Buzzy" Jones, Justo Almario, Kamau Daaood -- and his father, the late,great jazz trumpeter, Don Cherry.
David Ornette Cherry has performed his high-spirited, elegant Ensemble for Improvisors at Jimmy Mak's in Portland, the Rueben Museum through the Jazz Museum in Harlem in New York City, at Loyola Marymount University, the Getty Museum, and ALOUD at Central Library in Los Angeles. His Organic Roots band performed in a jazz festival in Sardinia, Italy in September 2008. His collaboration with performance artist, Susan Banyas, No Strangers Here Today, has been touring the country, and their recent collaboration, The Hillsboro Story, world premiered at Artists Repertory Theatre (Fall 2010), followed by a national tour. He is the composer for Embers, a jazz opera in poems, written by Los Angeles poet Terry Wolverton, presented in workshop form in January, 2009 in Los Angeles as part of the ALOUD/LA series. His music score for choreographer Gregg Bielemeier's Half of Some, Neither of Either, produced by White Bird, premiered December 2008.
Cherry Extract CD releases include: Organic Groove, End of a Century, Ensemble for Improvisors, Organic Roots, Organic Express, Cherry Jam/Open Mic/music & spoken word, Organic Journey/Back on the Path, Enter-Net
Visit www.davidornettecherry.com
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