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B'Jazz Vespers at FBC- Birmingham!
The public is invited, Sunday evening, November 21, 4 to 6PMat the First Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham at the corner of Willits and Bates streets.
Our third Vespers of our 15th season we present… STEVE WOOD PLAYS THE MUSIC OF YUSEF LATEEF AND NASIR HAFIZ Yusef Lateef was one of the most creative players of the fertile Detroit jazz scene of the 1950's, and has gone on to play a significant role in jazz and other musics on the world stage, an activity he continues with great vitality to this day. Nasir Hafiz was his cohort in Detroit and composed many great tunes in the bebop idiom, including "Arjuna" and "Half Breed" which Lateef recorded. Steve Wood and his band(Brad Felt euphonium, Kevin Grenier piano, Pat Prouty bass, George Davidson drums) will perform this music, composed by Lateef, Hafiz, and others, and evoke the spirit of a Detroit culture in one of it's ascendant periods, a foreshadowing of wonderful things still to come. In 1971, Steve Wood was a senior at Grosse Pointe North High School, just a kid playing tenor sax in a rock 'n' roll band called the Invisible Circus and dreaming of rock stardom. Then a record-buying trip changed his life. Wood had only been playing tenor sax for a little more than a year at that point, and, although he listened to jazz and dug hearing it live, he had no designs on becoming a jazz man. Then he heard The Dreamer by Yusef Lateef. It was, as they say, a life-changing moment. The Detroiter's thick-toned tenor sax and fluid flute playing cast a spell over Wood, one he's never wanted to shake. So that was more than 35 years ago, and Wood has since become a world-class jazz tenor saxophonist. He always admired Lateef's tone, and during his early years he spent a lot of time transcribing Lateef's recorded solos, lick for penetrating lick. But as greats are wont to do, Wood developed his own identity — on the tenor his tone is as sturdy as reinforced brick — and he counts Lateef as his principal influence. B'Jazz Vespers is held in the English Gothic sanctuary of First Baptist Church at the corner of Willits and Bates Streets, across from The Willits, at 300 Willits Street, one block north of Maple and one block west of Old Woodward Avenue. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot. B'Jazz Vespers features 100 minutes of secular jazz performance and 20 minutes for a non-sectarian worship interlude between two jazz sets. A free-will offering is taken for the musicians. The next Jazz Vespers will be on December 12, 6 to 8PM. Note this is the SECOND SUNDAY in December and a later time.
FREE ~ OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Join the artists after the concert in the church parlor for conversation and refreshments!
The First Baptist Church is located on the corner of Willits & Bates, one block North of Maple Road, one block West of Old Woodward Avenue, across from "The Willits".
No admission charge. Casual attire. Tel. 248-644-0550 firstbaptistbirmingham.org
Our third Vespers of our 15th season we present… STEVE WOOD PLAYS THE MUSIC OF YUSEF LATEEF AND NASIR HAFIZ Yusef Lateef was one of the most creative players of the fertile Detroit jazz scene of the 1950's, and has gone on to play a significant role in jazz and other musics on the world stage, an activity he continues with great vitality to this day. Nasir Hafiz was his cohort in Detroit and composed many great tunes in the bebop idiom, including "Arjuna" and "Half Breed" which Lateef recorded. Steve Wood and his band(Brad Felt euphonium, Kevin Grenier piano, Pat Prouty bass, George Davidson drums) will perform this music, composed by Lateef, Hafiz, and others, and evoke the spirit of a Detroit culture in one of it's ascendant periods, a foreshadowing of wonderful things still to come. In 1971, Steve Wood was a senior at Grosse Pointe North High School, just a kid playing tenor sax in a rock 'n' roll band called the Invisible Circus and dreaming of rock stardom. Then a record-buying trip changed his life. Wood had only been playing tenor sax for a little more than a year at that point, and, although he listened to jazz and dug hearing it live, he had no designs on becoming a jazz man. Then he heard The Dreamer by Yusef Lateef. It was, as they say, a life-changing moment. The Detroiter's thick-toned tenor sax and fluid flute playing cast a spell over Wood, one he's never wanted to shake. So that was more than 35 years ago, and Wood has since become a world-class jazz tenor saxophonist. He always admired Lateef's tone, and during his early years he spent a lot of time transcribing Lateef's recorded solos, lick for penetrating lick. But as greats are wont to do, Wood developed his own identity — on the tenor his tone is as sturdy as reinforced brick — and he counts Lateef as his principal influence. B'Jazz Vespers is held in the English Gothic sanctuary of First Baptist Church at the corner of Willits and Bates Streets, across from The Willits, at 300 Willits Street, one block north of Maple and one block west of Old Woodward Avenue. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot. B'Jazz Vespers features 100 minutes of secular jazz performance and 20 minutes for a non-sectarian worship interlude between two jazz sets. A free-will offering is taken for the musicians. The next Jazz Vespers will be on December 12, 6 to 8PM. Note this is the SECOND SUNDAY in December and a later time.
FREE ~ OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Join the artists after the concert in the church parlor for conversation and refreshments!
The First Baptist Church is located on the corner of Willits & Bates, one block North of Maple Road, one block West of Old Woodward Avenue, across from "The Willits".
No admission charge. Casual attire. Tel. 248-644-0550 firstbaptistbirmingham.org