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November 23, 2009 Contact: Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp@ucsc.edu Cross-cultural music and arts festival at UCSC Dec. 3-6
The UCSC Improvising Artists Festival and Conference will take place on campus December 3-6--featuring more than 60 events including concerts, films, workshops, panel discussions, and presentations by guests from around the world. The theme of the festival is “Improvisation, Diversity and Change: Uncovering New Social Paradigms within Spontaneous Musical Creativity.” Karlton Hester, associate music professor and director of Jazz Studies, noted that the cross-cultural music and arts festival is a collaboration between the International Society of Improvised Music and UCSC’s “Rebuilding Global Community Through the Arts” program. “The idea of the 2009 festival and conference is to examine a wide range of concepts with regard to improvisation, diversity, and change through a multitude of artistic styles and approaches,” said Hester. “Musical improvisation embodies core qualities of human creativity and over time cultivates the development of important aptitudes in the contemporary world,” he added. Saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd will be the festival’s featured headliner, performing in concert on Friday, December 4, at the UCSC Music Recital Hall. Geri Allen will open the show. Voted “Jazz Artist of the Year” by Downbeat in 1967, Lloyd worked with the Chico Hamilton Quintet in the 1950s and the Cannonball Adderly Sextet in the early 1960s, before forming his own quartet in 1965—the first jazz group to appear at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Anticipating the World Music movement by incorporating the sounds and rhythms of many cultures in his compositions as early as the late 1950s, Lloyd describes his music as having always “danced on many shores.” Hester will also perform with his Divine Particle’s Vision #2 ensemble on Saturday, December 5 at the UCSC Music Recital Hall, with Ashwin Batish and India Cooke also on the bill. A composer, flutist and saxophonist, Hester is founding music director of the Fillmore Jazz Preservation Big Band in San Francisco and also music director of the Hesterian Musicism ensemble. His formal jazz training includes the study of jazz improvisation with Joe Henderson and John Handy. For a complete festival schedule and ticket information, go to: http://music.ucsc.edu/improvisation/calendar.html For additional information, contact Kathryn Olson at capable.kate@gmail.com or Krystal Zamora at krystalzamora@gmail.com.
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