Poetry Electric | Jazzetry 2.0 – Horn & Hughes
A POETRY ELECTRIC BLEND OF MUSIC & VOICE WITH THE POEMS OF THE UNIQUELY CREATIVE WORDSMITH, LANGSTON HUGHES
Featuring extraordinary, edgy music by the internationally acclaimed horn player, Steven Bernstein – and the electrical vocal presentation of Langston Hughes’ poems by Emmy Award writer, actor, director, Judy Tate (ASP Artistic Director).
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The artists
Steve Bernstein
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Steven Bernstein is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader whose career bridges jazz, experimental music, film, and dance with a voice that is unmistakably his own. A master of the rare slide trumpet and a veteran of the New York City music scene, Bernstein has spent decades reshaping what contemporary creative music can be — equal parts deep tradition, risk-taking, and joy. His work as an arranger and collaborator spans an extraordinary range: music for films by directors Woody Allen and Robert Altman; compositions choreographed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Twyla Tharp; visionary projects with legendary producer Hal Willner; and long-standing collaborations with artists such as Lou Reed, Levon Helm, Roswell Rudd, Henry Butler, Bernie Worrell, and Sam Rivers. Bernstein’s role in Levon Helm’s late- career renaissance contributed to three GRAMMY Awards. Bernstein is best known as the founder and guiding force behind two of the most enduring and imaginative ensembles of the past quarter-century: Sexmob and Millennial Territory Orchestra (MTO).
Judy Tate
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Judy Tate is a four-time Emmy Award-winning writer and WGA Award recipient: Another World, As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives, and currently Beyond the Gates. She’s also a playwright, actor and veteran teaching artist. She’s taught playwriting throughout the U.S. and in Southern Africa, working with young people in prisons, shelters, townships and from Indigenous reservations. She is the Producing Artistic Director of The American Slavery Project, a theatrical response to revisionism in this country’s discourse around enslavement and its aftermath. www.americanslaveryproject.org
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