Art blakey jazz messengers biography of mahatma

  • In 1953, prolific composer and jazz pianist Horace Silver got together with band leader Art Blakey and the band's first album was this 1956.
  • So I left Maynard Ferguson, joined Art Blakey's band and stayed with him for five years, and then I left Art Blakey.
  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded Moanin' for Blue Note Records on October 30, 1958, fifty-nine years ago today.

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    Center for the Arts


    Sunny Jain: Love Force

    Friday, September 27, 2024 at 8:00pm
    CFA Theater

    $20 general public; $15 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students; $8 for Wesleyan students and youth beneath 18.

    Catch a preview of the latest music theater work bygd composer Sunny Jain, 2023–2024 CFA Artist in Residence. Love Force is a powerful ritual of gathering, using hybrid musical styles and building on the composer’s own experience of diaspora, that illuminates the power of song to create unity in the face of divisive systems of oppression.

    Watch a short preview film of Love Force directed and edited by Uday Narayanan '24: 



    Created and conceived by Brooklyn-based composer Sunny Jain, Love Force draws on the musician’s autobiography to create an immersive performance inspired by the concept satyāgraha (which means “insistence or holding firmly to truth”). Coined by Mahatma Gand

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    “I need to set myself to the study of non-violence, with thoroughness. The complete, integral practice of it in community life.”

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