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Here and Now Series: “Riding On Air” with Blair McMillen and Friends / Compositions by Jonathan Newman, Nicole Brancato / Jazz transcriptions and solos by Fred Hersch, Thelonius Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Regina Carter (with violinist Conor McMillen), at Bargemusic (Site)
Friday August 11, 2023, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$35Program
“Riding On Air”
with Blair McMillen and Friends
“JRB Variations” by Jonathan Newman (NYC premiere, written for Blair McMillen)
A piano four-hands world premiere by composer/pianist Nicole Brancato. Using field recordings, improvisation, and extended techniques, Brancato pays tribute to Henry Cowell’s groundbreaking 1923 piano work “The Aeolian Harp”
Jazz transcriptions and solos, by Fred Hersch, Thelonius Monk, Mary Lou Williams, and Regina Carter’s “Gone in a Phrase of Air” (with violinist Conor Macmillen