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Zoom Webinar with Jazz at Lincoln Center Quintet

The Club Hancher performances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Quintet are sold out—but you can still interact with this outstanding group of musicians!

Join us on Wednesday, November 17, at 7 pm for a Zoom webinar to learn more about Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Let Freedom Swing program—and the continued relevance of jazz icons Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith in the 21^st century.

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The Journey

Extraordinary illusionist, mentalist, and performance artist Scott Silven invites you on a mesmerizing journey from your home to his in rural Scotland. Silven brings an all-new, immersive, and intimate experience, live and online, that will captivate and astonish you.

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Archetypes

This unique blending of musical voices will take the stories and characters that recur throughout the world’s disparate myths and legends as a jumping off point for an expansive musical journey that is at once idiosyncratic and universal.

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Anthony McGill: Music and Social Justice

Anthony McGill will be joined in conversation by Micah Ariel James, Hancher’s Associate Director of Education and Community Engagement, to talk about the artist’s commitment to social justice as epitomized by his #TakeTwoKnees project.

Audience members will be able to ask questions during this free, online discussion.

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Layale Chaker, violin/composer

In this performance created for Hancher, Chaker and her ensemble will perform music from her critically acclaimed Inner Rhyme album as well as new music from the forthcoming Bards project, performed here for the first time.

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Pacifica Quartet and Anthony McGill, clarinet

Renowned for its brilliant combination of virtuosity and exuberance, the Pacifica Quartet has a topflight musician in every chair. Joined by Anthony McGill, principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, the quartet will perform a concert recorded specifically for the Hancher audience.

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The Democracy! Suite and Wynton Marsalis

As we weave together the strands of the previous five sessions, we will look at what Marsalis' writing shows us in terms of the legacy of the music, his role in preserving it, and what the continuum of jazz shows us about healthy communication, leadership, and democratic ideals.

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John Coltrane and the 1960s

The musical and spiritual journey of John Coltrane, expressed through his relentless pursuit in music, would inspire generations upon generations of artists to devote themselves completely to their craft.

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Charlie Parker and the Revolution of BeBop

The revolution of bebop in the 1940s saw jazz get faster, more virtuosic, and more daring. And no one was more extraordinary than the alto saxophone master Charlie Parker.

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Billie Holiday and the Art of Swing Song

With the burst of jazz's popularity in the 1930s, Billie Holiday revolutionized singing with small ensemble vocal jazz called Swing Song. Her innovations would provide the blueprint for generations of singers and instrumentalists to come.

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