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Curtis Stewart

Jazz Power Initiative Kicks Off 20th Anniversary Season With The Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Series

October 2, 2023

Jazz Power Initiative (JPI), an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music, arts education and performance, kicks off its 20th anniversary season with the acclaimed Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam series starting in October. Held twice-monthly, the Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam presents professional and emerging jazz artists with a ...

Harlem School Of The Arts In Collaboration With Jazz Power Initiative Launch A Celebration Of Jazz Appreciation Month Honoring America’s Original Art Form

March 23, 2023

Harlem School of the Arts in Collaboration With Jazz Power Initiative Launch a Celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month Honoring—America’s Original Art Form Laguardia High School and Harlem Samba Join in an Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam With Legends and Future Jazz Leaders The renowned, 59-year-old Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) will be the ...

The Compelling Urgency of Now: Celebrating Peace, Justice and Improvised Music

by Dave Kaufman
October 20, 2021

Arts for Arts, the organization responsible for the Vision Festival, has put together a series of “Peace and Justice Celebration" concerts at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center situated on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan in jny: New York City. I was fortunate to attend a performance on October 15, 2021 which was the ...

Of Colors

By Curtis Stewart

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Solo Violin Sonata in G minor: Adagio; Giant Steps; Of Webern: A Color between Colors; Alone Together; Four Pieces, Op. 7: I; Of Webern: Contrast color; Prototype; Solo Violin Sonata in G minor: Presto; Of Webern: Compare; Four Pieces, Op. 7: II; Prime; Descent; Tectonics; A Breath in Time; Gone; Solo Violin Sonata in G minor: Siciliana; Solo Violin Sonata in G minor: Fugue “Remix”; Four Pieces, Op. 7: IV; Four Pieces, Op. 7: II; A Drop of Wind; Of Color(s) “Remix”; Of Color(s) and (UN)-folding; Gone.

Elektra Kurtis: Bridges From The East

by Geannine Reid
June 29, 2016

Elektra Kurtis is an incredibly talented composer and violinist; her album, Bridges from the East, celebrates the composer's Greek, Mediterranean and Southern European heritage. Her compositions are deeply personal with elements referencing different music styles and origins, both reflecting the sounds of Eastern Europe and North Africa. The European influences are by 20th Century classical composers ...

Curtis Stewart: Of Colors

by Tyran Grillo
April 11, 2016

Curtis Stewart's biography may read like a playlist of his biggest influences--not least of all his father, jazz tuba pioneer Bob Stewart, and mother, Greek violinist and composer Elektra Kurtis--but the blazing violinist has made an indelible mark with his debut record as a jazz leader, Of Colors. From among said influences, Curtis pays homage to ...

Andrew Swift: Swift Kick

by C. Michael Bailey
April 8, 2012

Drummer Andrew Swift belongs to a new generation of jazz artists that includes trumpeter Ryan Kisor and multi-instrumentalists Sharel Cassity and Michael Dease, all of whom join Swift on his debut recording, Swift Kick. These young artists are all well trained and steeped in tradition. However, tradition does not own their collective souls. All compose with ...