Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/20/2017
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church

Categories

• Community
• Music / Choir

Featuring Phil DeGreg and Brasilia. Part of the 2016-2017 St. John’s Music Series. Jazz & Justice.

In Jazz & Hope: A Path to Justice, Phil DeGreg and Brasilia feature music of Brazilian composers at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 20, at St. John’s, 320 Resor Ave., Clifton, 45220.  A 7 p.m. reception precedes the concert.

DeGreg, a native Cincinnatian, performs internationally. He has released 11 recordings as a band leader and appears on numerous other recordings. With a master’s degree from University of North Texas, DeGreg toured the world for a year with Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd. He was the Blue Wisp Jazz Club’s house pianist for 16 years.

DeGreg won two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and was a finalist in Jazziz Magazine’s 1995 “Keyboards on Fire” competition and a 1996 finalist in the Great American Jazz Piano Competition.

Brasilia is these noted Cincinnati musicians:

Rusty Burge, vibraphone
Phil DeGreg, piano
Aaron Jacobs, bass
John Taylor, drums

St. John’s is committed to acts of racial justice and building community through the arts.  This is the second of a three-concert 2016-2017 music series for people to meet new neighbors and hear the voices of justice through the jazz idiom.

The United States and Brazil share parallel histories historically, sociologically and musically, says DeGreg. Both countries were colonized by Europeans, decimated indigenous populations, and instituted slave trades to prosper economically. But they also developed unique musical universes of styles that grew from the synthesis of African and European influences.  Throughout their histories the music from the United States and Brazil have cross-pollinated, and both have become vastly influential globally. The program will present some of the Brazilian repertoire and styles and demonstrate their fusion with American jazz.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and can be purchased in advance online, or at the door on the night of each performance.

For more information, call the church office at 513-961-1938.