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Louis Armstrong International Continuum LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL CONTINUUM Presented by the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University In conjunction with the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation Inc. A Virtual Symposium and Concert “Some of you young folks been saying to me, ‘Hey Pops what you mean, what a wonderful world? How ‘bout all them wars all over the place?...And how ‘bout hunger and pollution?’... Seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad, but what we are doing to it...And all I’m saying is see what a wonderful world it would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love, baby, love. That’s the secret...” -Louis Armstrong LOUIS ARMSTRONG VIRTUAL CONTINUUM SYMPOSIUM AND CONCERT LOUIS ARMSTRONG VIRTUAL CONTINUUM THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2021 Symposium and Concert Thursday, April 8, 2021 Time: 6:00pm ET | 5:00pm CT | 3:00pm PT Time: 6:00pm ET | 5:00pm CT | 3:00pm PT www.armstrongcontinuum.eventbrite.com LOUIS ARMSTRONG VIRTUAL CONTINUUM SYMPOSIUM AND CONCERT 6:00pm “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South” Louis Armstrong from Concert in East Berlin 1965 FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2021 Louis Armstrong, trumpet & vocals Time: 9:00am ET | 8:00am CT | 6:00am PT Tyree Glenn, trombone Eddie Shu, clarinet Billy Kyle, piano ABOUT THE ARMSTRONG CONTINUUM CO-PRODUCERS Arvell Shaw, bass Danny Barcelona, drums Prof. Robert G. O’Meally Jackie Harris Zora Neale Hurston Executive Director Welcome Remarks Robert G. O’Meally Professor of English and Louis Armstrong Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Educational Foundation, Comparative Literature; Founder and Director of Founder and Executive Director the Center for Jazz Studies Director of the Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Interview by Robert G. O’Meally with Center for Jazz Studies Summer Jazz Camp Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Dan Morgenstern Andre Kimo Stone Co-producer Louis Armstrong Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation President, Howard Schain, Treasurer Guessworks Inc., Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation 7:00pm “Black and Blue” Louis Armstrong from Concert in East Berlin 1965 Louis Armstrong, trumpet & vocals Third Annual Louis Armstrong Continuum Symposium and Concert Tyree Glenn, trombone A Virtual Conference Eddie Shu, clarinet “Louis Armstrong Crossing Borders” Billy Kyle, piano “Art in a Time of Emergency” Arvell Shaw, bass Presented by the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University in conjunction Danny Barcelona, drums with the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc. “Jazz and Social Justice” This year’s annual Armstrong Continuum celebrates the life and legacy of Louis Armstrong by focusing on his music and on his Robert G. O’Meally, moderator responses, both as a musician and as a citizen of the world, to the times of emergency through which he lived. What might his Panel Discussion example teach us about facing our current era of trial and trouble? Rev. Dwight Andrews Dedicated to the memory of the writer Stanley Crouch, who for many years served as president of the Louis Armstrong Gina Belafonte Educational Foundation, this year’s Armstrong Continuum is mindful of Mr. Crouch’s eloquence on the subject of Armstrong. Tongo Eisen-Martin In an effort to measure the man’s musical influence, Crouch turned to the vastness of the sky. “Louis Armstrong is always above Dr. Cornel West us,” he wrote, “maintaining a celestial relationship of heat and illumination or moving the tides and sending down the snow, Live Q&A Chat sustaining an aesthetic quality of photosynthesis and giving the ocean its color as that wet mirror reflects through its waves the infinite meanings of the blues. Yes, he is the sky of modern American music at its most original. No matter where you turn, 9:00pm “Music in a Time of Emergency” Concert there he is. In the morning, the sky is there; night, the sky is there; when it storms, the sky is there; during a drought the sky is The James Zollar Quartet with Special Guest Briana Thomas there; when it floods, the sky is there. This has been true since Armstrong came to his power in the middle twenties and made a James Zollar, trumpet grand synthesis of all that had been laid down within earshot of his talent and on the pages of music he read and practiced as he Jerome Jennings, drums developed his craft.” Sean Mason, piano Peter Washington, bass Through musical presentations, conference papers, and public talks, the 2021 Continuum will attempt again to measure Armstrong’s influence. It will also ask: What can the artist do, in this era of COVID and the vast terrain of injustices that the Briana Thomas, vocals pandemic has revealed, to help heal our planet? In light of Armstrong’s sky-high example, how can all citizens of the world act more responsibly? Because the study of the forms and functions of jazz is required of every student in Columbia College as Stefon Harris & Blackout part of our Core Curriculum, this symposium will be addressed to the entire CU campus. It will also address our neighbors in Stefon Harris, vibraphone & marimba Harlem, where Armstrong has long been celebrated; in Queens, where the Louis Armstrong House Archive is a city centerpiece; Casey Benjamin, saxophone & vocoder and then to the wide world beyond the gates of this great city—to the Louisiana, so to speak, of the planet. Terreon Gully, drums Ben Williams, bass The Armstrong Continuum is honored to present an all-star line-up of presenters and musicians... Keith Brown, piano -Robert O’Meally LOUIS ARMSTRONG VIRTUAL CONTINUUM Film Clips of Louis Armstrong Symposium and Concert “Philosophy Of Life” Friday, April 9, 2021 Time: 9:00am ET | 8:00am CT | 6:00am PT Recorded in Mr. Armstrong’s den in September 1970 www.armstrongcontinuum.eventbrite.com “I Cover the Waterfront” Louis Armstrong and His Hot Harlem Band October 1933 9:00am Royal Theater Coal Story Audio Recording from Louis Armstrong 1970 “St. Louis Blues” Recorded in Mr. Armstrong’s home in 1970 (Concerto Grosso) with members of the Armstrong Personal Home Recording New York Philharmonic July 1956 “Armstrong in a Time of Emergency” “I Ain’t Got Nobody” Wynton Marsalis President, “Satch plays King Oliver” Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation Recording session for the album Satch Plays King Oliver in early October 1959 Remarks 12:00Noon “Rhythm Is Our Business” Robin Bell-Stevens Emily Lordi, moderator Vice-President, Louis Armstrong Ainissa Ramirez Educational Foundation Ricky Riccardi Live Q&A Chat Symposium Overview Robert G. O’Meally 2:00pm “Armstrong’s Influence on 21st Century Artists” Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Jackie Harris, moderator Comparative Literature; Founder and René Marie Director of the Center for Jazz Studies Jason Moran Bobby Sanabria James Zollar 9:30am “Armstrong in the World” Live Q&A Chat Robert G. O’Meally, moderator Daphne Brooks Closing Remarks Robert G. O’Meally Kwami Coleman Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Wolfram Knauer Comparative Literature; Founder and Ingrid Monson Director of the Center for Jazz Studies Live Q&A Chat Jackie Harris 11:00am Interview by David Chevan with 2021 Executive Director, Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation Educational Foundation & Executive Director, Louis “Satchmotm” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp “SATCHMOtm” Award recipient Ron Carter Live Q&A Chat “Armstrong Now” Regina Bain A Special Presentation Executive Director from The Louis Armstrong House Louis Armstrong House Museum Museum Dwight Andrews, Ph.D. Robin Bell-Stevens As an ordained minister, tenor saxophonist, teacher and Robin Bell-Stevens has spent decades as one of jazz’s most scholar, the Detroit-born, Atlanta-based Dwight Andrews important behind-the-scenes figures – particularly in demonstrates, articulates and communicates the wide Harlem, where she now directs the Jazzmobile…” The continuum of African-American music, from the Saturday New York Times, Giovanni Russonello Bell-Stevens night function to the Sunday morning church service. is a talented administrator, marketing executive, A Professor of Music Theory and African American fundraiser and producer of concerts and special Music at Emory University since 1987, Andrews is events. As a producer she has created and presented also the Senior Minister of First Congregational United festivals nationally and internationally; and went on to Church of Christ in Atlanta. He received his Bachelor’s serve as Director of Marketing and Creative Services at and Master’s degrees in music from the University of Jazz at Lincoln Center. As a daughter of Duke Ellington Michigan, and earned a Master of Divinity degree, and a Ph.D. bassist Dr. Aaron Bell and jazz advocate De Lores Bell, in Music Theory from Yale University. Dr. Andrews curated Robin Bell-Stevens was born to be Director and Executive Bearden’s Blues and other Colors: a special program, celebrating Producer of Jazzmobile, the organization founded in Harlem in the opening of the Romare Bearden exhibition at the High Museum in 1964 by Dr. Billy Taylor and Daphne Arnstein, with Jimmy Heath, to Atlanta, which featured Branford Marsalis and his Quartet, as well as actors provide free quality arts education programs and New York City’s longest running jazz Carl Gordon, and Emmy Award winners Charles S. Dutton and S. Epatha festival, “Summerfest,” throughout the five boroughs. She currently serves on several Merkerson. Dr. Andrews is presently working on a study of Black Music and governing and advisory boards including, the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation Race, based on his Harvard lectures, and a manuscript on spirituality in the (Vice President), Jazz Studies at Columbia University, the Women’s Committee of the works of John Coltrane, Mary Lou Williams, Sun Ra, Dave Brubeck, and Central Park Conservancy and The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce. Feted Albert Ayler. He is editing a collection of critical essays on African-American for her achievements in arts & business administration and community service, she composer William Levi Dawson he presented at a 2005 Emory University has been honored by the Jazz Journalists Association, International Women in Jazz symposium exploring the composer’s legacy.
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