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Don Byron New Gospel Quintet at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival September 24th
Don Byron New Gospel Quintet at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival September 24th
Date Posted: September 12 2011
Written By: Chicago Jazz
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portoluz has teamed with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival to bring the New York based all-star jazz group : Don Byron's New Gospel Quintet to The University of Chicago's Mandel Hall on Saturday September 24 for a free- of - charge/ all-ages-are-welcome concert. The program will begin at 8pm. Mandel Hall is located at 1131 East 57th Street on the University of Chicago campus.
Don Byron's New Gospel Quintet features Don Byron on tenor and baritone saxophones and clarinets, vocalist DK Dyson, pianist Xavier Davis, bassist Brad Jones, and drummer Pheeroan akLaff.
A companion program: Don Byron in conversation with Lena Mc Lin will take place that same afternoon at 3pm, Saturday September 24th in International House ( 1414 East 59th Street- room TBA). Lena Mc Lin is the niece of Thomas A. Dorsey (father of Gospel music) and a renowned music educator. Byron and McLin will discuss Dorsey's legacy and music education in a wide ranging informal and intimate conversation preceding the evening concert.
portoluz is producing these events as part of its year-long multi-disciplinary instigation: WPA 2.0, a brand new deal. portoluz partnered with the Hyde Park Jazz Fest in presenting these two particular programs to re-visit the birth of gospel music during the Great Depression and explore contemporary applications in a current context.
ABOUT THE HYDE PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL
Named by Chicago Magazine as the 2011 Best Neighborhood Music Festival in their August "Best of" edition, the 5th annual event is expanding to two days/20 hours of FREE jazz heard in many of the creative and unexpected, indoor and outdoor venues throughout the Hyde Park neighborhood.
From the start of his career as a bandleader in the early 1990s, Don Byron has reveled in interpreting music of a wildly diverse range of styles and artists, including Duke Ellington, Igor Stravinsky, Mickey Katz, Raymond Scott, John Kirby, Sly Stone, Henry Mancini, Sugar Hill Records' early hip-hop, Earth Wind & Fire, Herb Alpert, and most recently, R&B icon Junior Walker.
Don Byron's newest project grows out of his in-depth studies of gospel music. Gospel pioneer Thomas A. Dorsey is a major inspiration, and Byron revisits some of the master songwriter's works alongside other classics as well as lesser-known gems of the genre.
"In the past few years I have listened more intensively to black religious music than ever before. Examining the specific blues styles peculiar to country, R&B, and rock led me to thorough studies of the blues based religious music of White and Black Southern Gospel. I am combining my own compositions with traditional Gospel pieces in a way I have not attempted before. This project coincides with a growth in my own faith and is for me a religious expression." -Don Byron.
The Don Byron New Gospel Quintet was launched in the spring of 2009 and had its New York premiere during a four-night run at the Jazz Standard.
In July 2011, the Don Byron New Gospel Quintet recorded its debut album at Stadium Red Studio in Harlem, NY with engineer Tom Lazarus and producer Hans Wendl. Entitled Love, Peace, and Soul, the new record is Don's first album for the Savoy Label Group and is scheduled for a February 2012 release.
portoluz presents: Don Byron's New Gospel Quintet
at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival
FREE CONCERT
Saturday, September 24th 8pm
Mandel Hall University of Chicago
1131 East 57th Street
All ages welcome
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