Diane Ravitch reminds us that public education advocate Mark Weber is
…not only a music teacher, not only a graduate student at Rutgers, not only a great blogger, but a jazzman!
So here’s Mark’s Christmas jazz playlist:
Live fusion of music, dance and painting all performed at once
Our friend Steve Cohn is an avant garde jazz artist who does really brilliant, leading edge work, sometimes right here in the New York City region. In 2007 he was in Amsterdam for a fusion performance called Mo(ve)ment Meets Musicians. My son and I just watched a video clip of the performance and love what we saw.
While Steve played Piano and Shakuhachi and Ernst Resijseger played Cello (sometimes holding it like a guitar), Benno Hübner danced. And on the wall behind them a super-large screen projects the work of two painters who are live on the scene painting while the performance takes place (Tali Farchi and Royce Deans).