One of the great things about CalArts is the music echoing through the Main Gallery. 24700 caught a part of the Jazz at Noon series on Friday presented by The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts.
Posted above is “Laura Claire,” an original composition written by guitarist Maxwell Gualtieri (Music BFA 11) and performed by the [...]
Brent Hayes Edwards, a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, visits CalArts tonight to discuss his latest work and research in the lecture on “loft jazz”: The Alchemy of Tin: The Cultures of Jazz in Downtown New York in the 1970s. As an academic and historian, his areas of [...]
2009 was a busy year for trumpeter, composer and CalArts faculty Wadada Leo Smith. In October, he released Spiritual Dimensions, a new two-disc set of live concert recordings, and there were also two reissues of earlier works Spirit Catcher (1979) and Procession of the Great Ancestry (1985).
Known for his improvisation and a sound that blends [...]
There’s a daily overabundance of sights and sounds at CalArts, so every now and then we’ll capture them and post on 24700. Walking through the main gallery a few weeks ago, we happened upon a lunchtime jazz ensemble led by CalArts faculty Alphonso Johnson on electric bass with music students Kyle Henry on alto [...]
Jazz legend and CalArts’ Jazz Studies Program founder Charlie Haden revisits his bluegrass/country roots tomorrow night (Nov. 17) with an LA Phil concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. While Haden made a career primarily in jazz–having just received a lifetime achievement award from Bass Player Magazine last month–the iconic double bassist [...]
There’s always an air of mystery surrounding the program for the Telluride Film Festival. Organizers don’t reveal what’s on the program until visitors reach the mountain. And filmmakers are sworn to secrecy if their film is chosen. This past weekend’s 36th Telluride Film Festival (Sept. 4-7) was no exception.
Filmmakers got word of their screening times [...]
New York-based composer, bandleader and double bassist Yunior Terry (Music BFA 02) has won one of the two Van Lier Fellowships awarded each year by Meet the Composer. Terry is planning to take this opportunity to compose a body of Cuban “Charanga” dance music and record with his band Son de Altura.
One of his compositions [...]
Since 1990, students from CalArts‘ Herb Alpert School of Music have had the opportunity to create a CD of original jazz and eclectic compositions at the historic Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Both Capitol and EMI Music have supported the annual project to showcase the talents of the young musicians at CalArts, who often contribute music [...]
Like life, art happens 24/7.
And what better place to capture both than the blogosphere? And at CalArts?
As a learning institution, part of our mission is to prepare students for the “real world” – one that’s filled with opportunities to create, reinterpret and share their work across disciplines and across boundaries.
Artists who study, teach and perform [...]
