Melanie Dyer & Gwen Laster - 20th & 21st Century African American String Improvisers
Fri Mar 7, 17:00 - Fri Mar 7, 19:00
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ABOUT
20th & 21st Century African American String Improvisers - A Listening Survey on the work and recordings of Leroy Jenkins, Billy Bang, Abdul Wadud and Tomeka Reid.
About the artist: Melanie Dyer’s practice is jazz/creative improvisation and composition. She studied viola performance/symphonic repertoire with William Lincer, Lee Yeingst, John Jake Kella and Naomi Fellows and at the University of Denver's LaMont School of Music. She has performed and recorded with many notable musicians, most recently the Sun Ra Arkestra under Marshall Allen, William Parker, Tomeka Reid, and others. She founded WeFreeStrings, an improvising string/rhythm collective in 2011 for which she has produced tours and two recordings. Her latest recording, Love In the Form of Sacred Outrage, was released on ESP-disk in 2022.