Craig Taborn with Columbia University Jazz Ensembles
Campus Arts Event
Craig Taborn with Columbia University Jazz Ensembles
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program will perform a special concert featuring jazz pianist Craig Taborn.
FREE
The Forum at Columbia University
December 09, 2022 | 7:30 pm
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Program Information

The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program is an on-campus program that brings together the many talented and creative jazz players at Columbia University, providing lessons and ensemble practice that incorporate a wide array of stylistic and rhythmic designs. Columbia's strength is its interdisciplinary approach to jazz studies, and the LAJPP is a central part of a larger mission which sees jazz as a music without borders and a mode for integrating scholarly inquiry with innovative teaching and community dialogue.

Performers

Craig Taborn
piano
Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program Ensembles

Location

The Forum at Columbia University
601 W. 125th Street
New York, NY

About The Performance

The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program will perform a special concert featuring jazz pianist Craig Taborn.

Craig Taborn has been performing piano and electronic music in the jazz, improvisational, and creative music scene for over twenty five years. He has experience composing for and performing in a wide variety of situations including jazz, new music, electronic, rock, noise and avant garde contexts. 

Taborn has played and recorded with many luminaries in the fields of jazz, improvised, new music and electronic music including Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Lester Bowie, Dave Holland, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Evan Parker, Steve Coleman, David Torn, Chris Potter, William Parker, Vijay Iyer, Kris Davis, Nicole Mitchell, Susie Ibarra, Ikue Mori, Carl Craig, Dave Douglas, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dan Weiss, Chris Lightcap, Gerald Cleaver, and Rudresh Manhathappa.

This concert will feature three ensembles from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program playing with Craig. 

For more information about this performance, please visit the event website.

Image: Craig Taborn / courtesy of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program