Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber: A Workshop in Conducted Improvisation

Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies

presents

Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber:

A Workshop in Conducted Improvisation

Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 7 pm

Columbia University Main Campus

116^th Street and Broadway

301 Philosophy Hall

Free and open to the public

Campus map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/philosophy.html

In this unprecedented performance workshop,

open to students and performers from any and all traditions

l musicians, poets, actors, dancers, writers l

Greg Tate,

Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at the Center for Jazz Studies for Fall 2009,

will demonstrate how new musical material maybe generated and

existing may be restructured and renewed in real-time performance

using Conduction,

the versatile lexicon of hand and baton gestures

developed over the past twenty years by improviser and conductor Lawrence “Butch” Morris.

This event is sponsored by

the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation

and presented by the Center for Jazz Studies

in collaboration with

the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program

and the Music Performance Program,

Columbia University.

For more information about Center for Jazz Studies activities,

please visit www.jazz.columbia.edu

or call 212-851-1633