The New School community mourns jazz great Chico Hamilton, who was a founding teacher at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Over his decades-long career, the legendary jazz drummer and band leader recorded more than 50 albums; performed with giants including Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Duke Ellington; and led two […]
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On November 10, brass and woodwind trios and dueling violinists took to the stage of Miami’s New World Symphony. Despite standing center stage, the musicians, clad all in black, were not what the audience was looking at. As they played, dazzling images were projected over their heads, moving and changing along with the music. These […]
Call it fate or destiny, it seems that Jazzmeia Horn was born to be a jazz musician. Named as a symbol of her parents’ love of the musical form, Horn caught the eye of judges last year at the first annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, where she won the Rising Star Award for […]
It’s been a remarkable fall season for Jeremy Denk, a faculty member at Mannes The New School for Music. After being awarded a MacArthur “Genius grant” Fellowship in September, the accomplished pianist has just been named Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. The classical music journal, which was founded as a weekly newspaper in […]
Duke Ellington certainly still has a sea of fans and admirers, but New School for Jazz alumnus Robert Glasper’s tastes lean towards Roy Ayers. “That’s my dude right there,” he says of the experimental steel guitarist in a recent Wall Street Journal article. “Without Roy Ayers, I couldn’t do what I’m doing right now.” What […]
Seeing and hearing newly produced plays by some of the theatre industry’s most revered and promising talent can be an exciting prospect. But it’s rare to get a glimpse into the process of creation. On November 4, The New School for Drama and the Naked Angels presented Angels Ajar, an exclusive preview of brand new […]
