Jazz Small Ensembles: Contrafacts
When:
Monday, November 18, 2019
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
Where: Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, McClintock Choral and Recital Room, 70 Arts Circle, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: $6 general public, $4 students with valid ID
Contact:
Concert Management Office
(847) 467-4000
Group: Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
A contrafact is a new musical composition built from a preexisting one, most often a new melody overlaid onto a previously devised harmonic structure. Contrafacts have served an extraordinary purpose in the jazz tradition. Lennie Tristano turned “Out of Nowhere” into “317 East 32nd Street”; Coleman Hawkins turned “Lover, Come Back to Me” into “Bean and the Boys”; and Thelonious Monk turned “Oh, Lady Be Good” into “Hackensack.” Come hear Northwestern jazz students spin American classics and jazz standards into new blues, swing, and improvisation contrafacts.