New School University's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program "Jazz @ 6:30"

on Monday, November 11, 2002 at 6:30 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC.
Tickets are $18 per show. Call 212-229-5488.

Bass player Reggie Workman has performed with almost every notable figure in Jazz. His 40-year career includes landmark recordings with John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Archie Shepp, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Cecil Taylor, among many others. In 1960, Workman became a member of Coltrane's famous Quartet, along with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. His own groups have included Top Shelf, The Reggie Workman Ensemble, and his current group, Trio 3. Among his many accolades, Workman has received the Eubie Blake Award for Musical Excellence, the IAJE Award for Education, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Foundation of America. Since 1987, Reggie Workman has been a full-time instructor and coordinator of curriculum in the Jazz & Contemporary Music Program.

Drummer and Jazz Program faculty member Andrew Cyrille attended both The Juilliard School and Hartnett School of Music. He has worked with some of the most renowned Jazz artists of the period, including Cecil Taylor, Mary Lou Williams, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Dorham, Freddie Hubbard, and Babatunde Olatunji. Having toured and performed throughout the world, he is currently a member of TRIO3, featuring Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman. Cyrille has received three NEA grants for performance and composition, two Meet the Composer grants, and an Arts International award to perform with his quintet in West Africa. In 1999, Cyrille received a Guggenheim Fellowship for composition.

T.K. Blue (Talib Kibwe) began his life in music at ages 8 playing trumpet. At age 17, he concentrated on the saxophone and took lessons (as part of the Jazzmobile program) with Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Ernie Wilkins and Billy Mitchell. In addition to his deep involvement in the avant-garde, T.K. has performed and traveled extensively with Abdullah Ibrahim and served as Musical Director with Randy Weston and the Spirit of Life Orchestra. His recent affiliations include: Odadaa, a group led by a renowned drummer from Ghana, Yacub Addy; percussionist Norman Hedman's pan-African band Tropique; and worked with emerging singer Jeffrey Smith. “Another Blue" is his new CD with Arkadia Records.

Saxophonist and current member of the World Saxophone Quartet, John Purcell is a multi-instrumentalist who has played in a remarkably wide variety of musical contexts. Having joined the WSQ in 1995, after the passing of Julius Hemphill, Purcell has an impressive track record as a performer and composer for the group.

Monday, November 25th Jazz @ 6:30 will feature Roy Hargrove & Raymond Angry.

Jazz @ 6:30 is sponsored in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.

www.newschool.edu/Jazz