Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music, brilliant composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey and his trio – pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist Harish Raghavan – and the endlessly inventive Sandbox Percussion celebrate the extraordinary legacy of legendary drummer, composer and activist Max Roach on his centenary.
Roach, who played with Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and other jazz icons, had a deep and little-known connection to The 92nd Street Y, curating a concert series in the 1990s, and performing with artists including Lester Bowie, Julius Hemphill, Christian McBride, and others.
Sorey shares a deep affinity with Roach – as a jazz drummer, a curator, a composer, an arranger, and an endlessly inventive artist in each of those roles. Long a champion of Roach’s music, the program opens with the trio performing tunes by and/or associated with Roach. The quartet follows with a Roach-inspired set. The forces come together in the concert’s second half for the New York premiere of a new work by Sorey inspired by Roach in this concert from two of the most forward-looking ensembles in music.
Program to include:
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Max Roach, Morning/Midday (arr. Sandbox Percussion)
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George Lewis, Le témoignage des lumières
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Julius Eastman, Joy Boy (arr. Sandbox Percussion)
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Tyshawn Sorey, New Work for Jazz Trio and Percussion Quartet (92NY co-commission; NY premiere)
Online streaming also available for 72 hours following the performance.
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