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Craig Harris at Mount Olivet Baptist Church
Courtesy of Diane Shepherd | Posted on November 25, 2016
Where
Mount Olivet Baptist Church
201 Lenox Avneue
New York, NY
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When
Fri, December 23, 2016
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Craig Harris
tromboneArt Baron
tromboneJoe Daley
tubaBob Stewart
tubaAdam Klipple
organ, Hammond B3Tony Lewis
drumsLa Tanya Hall
vocalsCharlotte Doreen Small
vocalsAbout
God’s Trombones is coming back home to Harlem this holiday season. Craig Harris will be performing his powerful musical interpretation of James Weldon Johnson’s Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, published in 1927. The collection of poems that refigure inspirational sermons by itinerant Negro preachers. There will only be two performances December 22nd and December 23rd, 2016.
Craig Harris, a trombonist, composer and longtime Harlem resident. 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 influential figures, and his projects display both a unique sense of concept and a total command of the sweeping expanse of musical expression. It is those two qualities that have dominated Craig’s past forty years of activity, bringing him far beyond the confines of the jazz world, into the sphere of multimedia and performance art as composer, performer, conceptualist, curator and artistic director....