Strayhorn: Bill Charlap Trio, Jon Faddis & Cécile McLorin Salvant [CONCERT]

Part of A Salute to Billy Strayhorn May 28-30

The Bill Charlap Trio
with Jon Faddis
featuring special guest, Cécile McLorin Salvant

ABOUT THIS CONCERT
Bill Charlap and his Trio appear with two superb partners for a charming, close-focus encounter with Strayhorn’s unforgettable songs—and a few scintillating piano solos.  Fearless and inventive, multiple Grammy-Award winner Cécile McLorin Salvant has been called “the finest jazz singer to emerge in the last decade” (New York Times). Trumpeter Jon Faddis “possesses a virtually unparalleled range and full command of his instrument, making the practically impossible seem effortless” (Time Out New York).  It’s a potent artistic partnership, one appropriate to honor what the Library’s jazz curator Larry Appelbaum calls “the creative work of a musical architect of the highest order…one who added greatly to the brilliance and beauty of 20th-century music.” 

Presented through the generous support of the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family

Pre-Concert 
Billy Strayhorn Symposium
Whittall Pavilion, 5:00 pm
Keynote: 5:00 pm 
David Hajdu, author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Panel: 6:00 pm
David Hajdu, moderator
Robert G. O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University
Lisa Barg, Associate Professor, Schuller School of Music of McGill University
A. Alyce Claerbaut, President, Strayhorn Songs, Inc. 
Walter van de Leur, Professor of Jazz and Improvised Music, University of Amsterdam

Don't miss any of our Salute to Strayhorn events:

Concert: Big Band Evening: Strayhorn Known and Unknown, Thursday, May 28, 2020, Coolidge Auditorium, 8 pm
Film: Paris Blues, Friday, May 29, 2020, Pickford Theater, 7 pm
Film: Anatomy of a Murder, Saturday, May 30, 2020, Pickford Theater, 12 pm
Billy Strayhorn Symposium, Saturday, May 30, 2020, Whittall Pavilion, 5 pm
Concert: The Bill Charlap Trio with Jon Faddis featuring special guest Cécile McLorin Salvant
Saturday, May 30, 2020, Coolidge Auditorium, 8 pm

Additional Ticketing Information

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