Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson Will Return to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick for First Time in Decades

Source: Something Else!
January 30, 2012

Ian Anderson is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick by playing the progressive rock epic in its entirety for the first time since 1972. But not with the band with which he once sang and played the flute. Anderson prefers the more intimate settings that a solo tour provides: “The audiences that I attract as Ian Anderson have come to listen to the music and have the sensitivity to keep quiet at the appropriate moments." ...
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Astronaut Cady Coleman and Ian Anderson - A Flute Duet out of This World

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
April 13, 2011

American astronaut Catherine “Cady" Coleman and Scottish flutist Ian Anderson from the band Jethro Tull played the first-ever flute duet between Earth and space. The duet played the tune Bourree in E minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was in honor of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin, who became the first man to enter outer space fifty years ago today, on April 12, 1961. On that day, President Kennedy congratulated Russian Premier Khrushchev by telegram, and it marked the race between ...
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Sam Rivers and His Orchestra Saturday, November 10, 2007, 7:30 PM Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
November 7, 2007

Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies in association with Community Works and New Heritage Theatre Group presents the fourth concert of the columbiaharlem jazzproject Sam Rivers and his Orchestra: Music Visionary in Three Parts Featuring a pre-concert interview with Mr. Rivers by Prof. Brent Edwards followed by performances by the Sam Rivers Trio and by his full 16-piece Rivbea Orchestra Saturday, November 10, 2007, 7:30 pm Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall 150 Convent Avenue at West ...
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Jazz Unites, Inc To Leadoff Black History Month Celebrations With Annual Tribute to Marian Anderson & Mahalia Jackson

Source: All About Jazz
December 17, 2005

Jazz Unites, Inc. presents The 21st Annual Historical/Musical Tribute to Marian Anderson and Mahalia Jackson. This award-winning event returns to the acoustically superior Harris Theater with an exciting musical mix of gospel, classical and jazz artists---including soprano Jonita Lattimore, gospel artist Roberta Thomas, and Broadway performer Aisha de Haas, backed by pianist Thomas Jefferson and jazz bassist John Whitfield, with narration by WGN-TV personality Merri Dee. The Jazz Unites Benefit Reception follows the concert. Concert performers and other special guests ...
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Marian Anderson/Mahalia Jackson Tribute Concert

Source: All About Jazz
December 10, 2004

Jazz Unites presents their annual celebration of two divas whose careers broke cultural barriers. Classical sopranos Jonita Lattimore and Rauquaia Hale-Wallace join gospel artists Felicia Coleman-Evans, Roberta Thomas and Tamara McCann, and jazz musicians Lee Koonce, Earma Thompson and John Whitfield, along with Broadway performers Aisha and Darius de Haas. At the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millenium Park, Chicago, on January 16, 2005, starting at 3:00 pm.

Concert-goers are invited to attend the benefit reception at the ...
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