The guitarist Les Paul once said of Ellis: "If you're not swinging, he's going to make you swing." It was a service Ellis provided for Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and many more of jazz's most celebrated artists over a six-decade career, beginning in Jimmy Dorsey's swing band in the 1940s and continuing up to the millennium.Įllis was born on a cotton farm at Farmersville, near Dallas. But he was also a superb rhythm player whose chordwork behind partners increased the momentum without getting in the way. For five years in the 1950s, that role fell to the Texas-born guitarist Herb Ellis, who has died aged 88 of complications from Alzheimer's disease.Įllis always exhibited a mark of genuine class, staying unflustered by Peterson's scorching tempos, sustaining the logic and melodic shape of the original theme in his solos whatever the pace. High on the list of the toughest had to be acting as an accompanist and fellow soloist to Oscar Peterson, one of the fastest and most fluent piano virtuosos in jazz history, and a man who favoured small ensembles in which there was no place to hide. This performance is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.There are no easy rides in jazz, but some are easier than others. Post-Concert Discussion with Drew Petersen, Harry Cooper, and Angel Gil-Ordóñez Zouzou (1934) film clip with Josephine Baker Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey, Yvette Lebon.The coffin's fall and the emergence of Börlin The hunter and the beginning of the funeral The female dancer and figures within water Scenes from the air chess game and boats on roof Cinéma (1924): Entr’acte symphonique du ballet Relâche pour le film de René Clair.PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez Terrace Theater | The Kennedy Center | 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC Paris at Midnight: Jazz and Surrealism in the 1920s WASHINGTON POST REVIEW: "Gil-Ordóñez led the 37-piece ensemble with attentive precision and a lively sense of humor that Petersen carried over to the keyboard." He is not just a child prodigy but is a brilliant musician." - Lukas Foss, composer, conductor, pianist Tickets “ That is what is so astonishing about Drew.that he feels the music, he can make it come alive again, make you touched by it. Presented in collaboration with Harry Cooper, senior curator of modern art at the National Gallery of Art. It culminates with Maurice Ravel's partly-jazz-inspired Piano Concerto in G featuring soloist Drew Petersen, winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 American Pianists Award. The program also includes film footage of Baker dancing and a tribute to jazz great Sidney Bechet. Join PCE for a screening of the classic Surrealist film Entr’acte (René Clair, 1924) with the original score by Erik Satie performed live. Under the leadership of André Breton, Surrealism sought to shock the bourgeoisie, while a passion for African and African American art and culture, from jazz to art to dance, galvanized the city, personified above all by Josephine Baker. While some like Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso embraced Neo-Classicism and a "return to order" in the aftermath of the Great War, others launched bold new experiments. Paris in the 1920s was a place of great artistic conflict and excitement. Guest Curator Harry Cooper, senior curator of modern art at the National Gallery of Art Paris at Midnight: Jazz and Surrealism in the 1920s
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