Jamaaladeen Tacuma's Dirt Road Xperience Residency Live

Jamaaladeen Tacuma Live March 1, 2022 Southeastern Community College Presents a FREE Music Workshop : Jamaaladeen Tacuma’s Music & The Human Experience Music Workshop: Music & The Human Experience - Harmolodic Gems at Southeastern Community College Auditorium , 4564 Chadbourn Highway, Whiteville, NC 28472; March 1st 2022, 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Aspiring musicians are invited to explore techniques and learn the histories behind the nuances of jazz and other American music that has origins in the rural South. Tacuma will discuss music as a human experience, improvisation as a way of life, and introduce Ornette Coleman's harmolodic concepts. The event will also be live-streamed. RSVP and reservation is required at Eventbrite. This event is part of Jamaaladeen Tacuma’s South Arts Creative Residency in Whiteville , NC THE DIRT ROAD XPERIENCE: RENOWN BASSIST JAMAALADEEN TACUMA IN RESIDENCE IN WHITEVILLE, NC FEBRUARY 16 — MARCH 10, 2022 Jamaaladeen Tacuma, the American free jazz bassist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work with Ornette Coleman during the 1970s and 1980 put him on the international map, is tracing his own origin story with a residency project he is calling The Dirt Road Xperience. To support the composition of a new musical suite, Tacuma will reflect on his career arc and musical journeys while revisiting the stomping grounds of his youth—the winding back roads of Whiteville in Columbus County, NC. Tacuma's own artistic biography parallels the Carolina origins of important nationally- and internationally-acclaimed musical talents including bassist Kim Clarke (also from Whiteville), Graham Haynes (his Greensboro roots), and the geographic arcs of Percy Heath, Nina Simone, Max Roach, George Clinton, Maceo Parker, Paul Robeson; not to mention the iconic individuals known to the world as Dizzy, Monk, and Coltrane. Tacuma is the grandson of Whiteville's own Luther and Bertha Hill. He spent his summers in Whiteville working on sharecropper families' tobacco farms while also discovering his passion for his instrument, the bass guitar; having experiences that shaped him into the man and musician he is today. During the residency, Tacuma will set up a combination art gallery, music studio, and design installation space at 611 South Madison Street in downtown Whiteville from February 16 through March 10. During this period, the public will be able to stop by to meet the artist and experience his multifaceted creativity. The public is also invited to join Tacuma's Xperience by attending one or more from a series of free performances, workshops, and discussions in Whiteville and Charlotte (details listed on next page). Tacuma will be joined during the residency by award-winning videographer and Apollo Theater sound engineer Gregg Mann, who will be documenting the entire residency for posterity. Mann brings his wealth of over 25 years in the music industry to the project. He has worked with Ornette Coleman, Alicia Keys, Gladys Knight, John Legend, Eryka Badu, and many other significant artists. For the last 10 years, he has been working in the independent film community as a director and editor. The Dirt Road Xperience is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. South Arts awarded $2 million in grants in October 2021 to support jazz musicians through the Jazz Road initiative. The individual grants, which ranged from $24,700 to $40,000, were delivered to 52 musicians to support a wide variety of creative residencies. Find out more about all the free events at www.JamaaladeenMusic.com/drx More details about what to expect at the masterclass: MUSIC AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IMPROVISATION AS A MUSICAL WAY OF LIFE WORLD WIDE MUSIC APPRECIATION & HARMOLODIC GEMS A comprehensive 3 PART hands on workshop and lecture based on the concept of the business of music and the human experience, Improvisation as a means of musical expression and the global appreciation of today's world musical language. This workshop and lecture is for all musicians in any genre and for anyone interested in the business of music and the concept of collective improvisation .This workshop and lecture deals with the professions, economics and the structure and development of today's music business. The discussions will also give insight as to how today's musicians can develop their own business and promotional strategies to help their chosen careers. Everyone is encouraged to bring their instrument , instrumentalists will spend time with each other creating and improvising as a means to develop their own unique musical voice and learn improvising from a harmolodic perspective.

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