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Craig Harris at Welcome To Harlem Evening Jazz Series at Rendall Memorial Presbyterian Church

Courtesy of Diane Shepherd | Posted on October 8, 2016

When

Fri, October 14, 2016
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Adam Klipple
organ, Hammond B3
Craig Harris
trombone

About

When Craig Harris exploded onto the jazz scene in 1976, he brought the entire history of the jazz trombone with him. From the growling gutbucket intensity of early New Orleans music through the refined, articulate improvisation of the modern era set forth by J.J. Johnson, into the confrontational expressionism of the ‘60s avant-garde, Craig handled the total vernacular the way a skilled orator utilizes the spoken word. He has performed with a veritable Who’s Who of progressive jazz’s most important figures and his own projects display both a unique sense of concept and a total command of the sweeping expanse of musical expression...

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