Jazz
alto saxophonist Ernest "Khabeer" Dawkins will bring his
"Straight Ahead" Quartet with special guest pianist and jazz
educator Willie Pickens to the River Music Experience's Redstone
Room in downtown Davenport for Polyrhythms' Third Sunday Jazz
Matinée & Workshop on August 17. The workshop begins at 3
p.m., with admission $3 for students and $5 for adults. The concert
begins at 6 p.m., with general admission $15 and reserve seating $20.
When
was the last time a Quad Cities venue featured a performance that
included a jazz band with a dancer? I have lived in the Quad Cities
for 30 years and have never heard of anything like that happening
here.
I
know of no other town or high school in the Quad Cities area - or
of any place in the world - that is doing the great things the
citizens of Eldridge and the North Scott High School are doing in
terms of educating their children and adults on America's original
art form: jazz music.
Jazz
saxophonist, pianist, and educator Ari Brown - part of the
avant-garde scene in Chicago - will perform with his quartet at the
Redstone Room of the River Music Experience in downtown Davenport on
July 16. Brown will conduct a workshop at 3 p.m. and perform a
two-set concert starting at 6 p.m. Admission to the workshop is $10,
while concert tickets are $15.
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