CELEBRATING BLACK MUSIC MONTH... ... ...

 

Diasporic Music, Saturday

 

 Morning Live

 

 and

 

 A Different Booklist

 

presents

 

 

The film "Music Inn "

 

Friday June 27, 2008

 

 

7 pm

 

 

746 Bathurst St

 

 

 

 

"Music Inn" has an extensive interview with the master of Afrikan rhythms Randy Weston. It also features Jamaica's Miss Lou, Nigeria's Babatunde Olatunji, Trinidad and Tobago's, Geoffrey Holder, and jazz greats Oscar Peterson, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie and others.

There was a time in the 1950s when musical giants strutted the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts.  Be-boppers, folk singers, African drummers, blues singers, jazz legends, poets, and musicologists gathered at a place called Music Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, just a stones throw away from classical music most famous summer festival at Tanglewood, to share their converging traditions and go looking for roots most people didn't think even existed.  In their search, they created not only the first summer-long Jazz Festival, and the First School of Jazz, but a new movement in American music.  It was that kind of unique, magical configuration of people and ideas that rarely occurs in the arts, but permanently alters the cultural landscape.  In this case, it changed the world of American music, how we understand the meaning of America, and how the world came to appreciate the art of jazz.