Madison Music Collective teams up with Madison Jazz Society to present two illuminating programs in the Memorial Union’s Frederic March Play Circle.
7:00-9:00 PM: George Russell’s Four Dimensions of Melodic Construction. In this advanced jazz improvisation lecture, performance and workshop, pianist Jim Erickson examines jazz musician and theorist George Russell’s “Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization for Improvisation,” using examples drawn from the distinctive styles of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. All instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome and encouraged to participate in this program, which will be capped off by a full-blown jam session.
9:00-11:00 PM: “The Girls In The Band.” This multi-award-winning 2011 documentary film tells the stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their groundbreaking journeys, from the 1920s to the present, in the face of decades of sexism, racism and diminished opportunities. Immediately following the movie, June Dalton of the Ladies Must Swing big band and Madison Jazz Society President Linda Marty Schmitz will lead a Q&A session. http://thegirlsintheband.com.
