Anti-Jazz: The New Thing Revisited

Co-presented by Ars Nova Workshop

In 1961, Down Beat magazine published a review of a John Coltrane performance referring to the music as "anarchistic" and as "a horrifying demonstration of what appears to be a growing anti-jazz trend." This review documented one of the most controversial moments in the history of jazz: the advent of Free Jazz or "The New Thing." 

 

IHP and ANW's fifth concert series,  Anti-Jazz: The New Thing Revisited, celebrates the 50-year trajectory of Free Jazz. The series, while bearing in mind landmark contributions such as Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz and John Coltrane's Ascension, is a glimpse at the current state of the phenomenal Free Jazz continuum featuring many of the founding visionaries and iconoclasts - including the Sun Ra Arkestra, Bill Dixon, Bobby Bradford and the Art Ensemble of Chicago - along with an emerging generation of distinguished instrumentalists. 

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Sun Ra Arkestra

under the direction of Marshall Allen

 

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Bill Dixon with Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Circulasione Totale Orchestra

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Art Ensemble of Chicago

Anti-Jazz: The New Thing Revisited was funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.

 

We thank the Sheraton University City and WRTI for their support.