PNC Arts Alive & Jazz Arts Group Presents JAZZ AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Featuring Byron Stripling and Author Michelle Alexander Saturday, March 13 | 8 PM Byron Stripling Michelle Alexander FREE Event on www.JAG.tv JAZZ ARTS GROUP BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gary Wadman | President Jim Negron | Past President Managing Partner | BakerHostetler President | Corna Kokosing Construction Tami Van Tassell | Treasurer Kevin L. Murch | Secretary Partner | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Partner | Perez & Morris LLC John Ammendola Robert Lee Heather Brod Therese McCann Alessandro Ciaffoncini Pete Mills Steve Driver Michael Peddicord Kevin Flanigan, MD Milton Ruffin Dale Greeson Larry Smith John Johanssen Press Southworth Ron Johnson Kelly Wilson Bill Kiefaber ADMINISTRATION Press Southworth III Byron Stripling Chief Executive Officer CJO Artistic Director Yvette Boyer Mary Manos Accountant Jazz Academy Coordinator & Orchestra Manager Alexa Brennan Education & Outreach Coordinator Pete Mills Program Director, Alex Burgoyne Jazz at The Lincoln Theatre Digital Media Manager Sarah Simon Diane Cattran Office Administrator & Database Specialist Grant Manager Louis Tsamous Zach Compston Director of Affiliate Musicians Director of Education & Community Engagement Terence Womble Director of Marketing & Communications Kimberlee Goodman Director of Development Meet Michelle Alexander PNC Arts Alive & Jazz Arts Group Presents Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the AND THE Age of Colorblindness — the bestselling book JAZZ that helped to transform the national debate on racial and criminal justice in the United States. Since The New Jim Crow was first published in 2010, it has spent nearly 250 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has been cited in FOR judicial decisions and adopted in campus-wide STRUGGLE and community-wide reads, and has inspired a generation of racial justice activists motivated by Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” FREEDOM The book has won numerous awards, including the 2011 NAACP Image Award for best nonfiction. Alexander has been featured in national radio and television media outlets, Featuring Byron Stripling including MSNBC, NPR, CNN, Bill Moyers Journal, The Colbert Show, Real Time with Bill and Author Michelle Alexander Maher, Tavis Smiley, Democracy Now!, and C-SPAN. Over the years, Alexander has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinic. In 2005, Alexander won a Soros Justice Fellowship that supported the writing of The New Jim Crow and accepted a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Currently she is a vis- iting professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and a contributing opinion Artist Roster writer for The New York Times. Michelle Alexander, Author/Guest Speaker Prior to joining academia, Alexander engaged in civil rights litigation in both the private and nonprofit sector, ultimately serving as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU Byron Stripling, Artistic Director/Trumpet of Northern California, where she coordinated the Project’s media advocacy, grassroots Bobby Floyd, Piano/B3 Organ organizing, and coalition building and launched a major campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement known as the “DWB Campaign” or “Driving While Black or Brown Reggie Jackson, Drums Campaign.” Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. She Sydney McSweeney, Vocals has clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Dr. Milton Ruffin, Vocals Kevin Turner, Guitar Andy Woodson, Bass Meet Byron Stripling With a contagious smile and captivating charm, trumpet virtuoso, BYRON STRIPLING, has ignited audiences internationally. As soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Stripling has performed frequently under the baton of Keith Lockhart, as well as being featured soloist on the PBS television special, ColumbusMakesArt.com “Evening at Pops,” with conductors John Williams #artmakescbus and Mr. Lockhart. Currently, Stripling serves as artistic director and conductor of the highly acclaimed Columbus Jazz Orchestra. Since his Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, Stripling has become a pops orchestra favorite throughout the country, soloing with Boston Pops, National Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and Houston Symphony, to name a few. He has been a featured soloist at the Hollywood Bowl and performs at jazz festivals throughout the world. An accomplished actor and singer, Stripling was chosen, following a worldwide search, to star in the lead role of the Broadway bound musical, “Satchmo.” Many will remember his featured cameo performance in the television movie, “The Young Indiana Jones Chroni- Jazz has played a major role in bringing people together. It’s a language, cles,” and his critically acclaimed virtuoso trumpet and riotous comedic performance in the an expression of ideas, a means of communicating. When jazz speaks, it conveys thoughts. It moves some intellectually and others emotionally. In our 42nd Street production of “From Second Avenue to Broadway.” community you’ll find every form of art from all genres of music, dance, visual arts, spoken word, etc. And for those who observe it, art affects them the same Television viewers have enjoyed his work as soloist on the worldwide telecast of The way ... it crosses boundaries and transcends barriers, so that it’s shared by all. Grammy Awards. Millions have heard his trumpet and voice on television commercials, TV I’m Bobby Floyd. Music is my art and there’s no place I’d rather make it. theme songs including “20/20,” CNN, and soundtracks of favorite movies. Learn more about Bobby’s story and other Columbus artists, performances, exhibitions, concerts, public art and more at ColumbusMakesArt.com. Byron Stripling earned his stripes as lead trumpeter and soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Thad Jones and Frank Foster. He has also played and recorded extensively with the bands of Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Dave Brubeck, Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, and Buck Clayton in addition to The Lincoln Additional support from: The Sol Morton and Dorothy Isaac, Rebecca J. Wickersham and Lewis K. Osborne funds at The Columbus Foundation. Center Jazz Orchestra, The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, and The GRP All Star Big Band. Studio | Design: Formation Pariser Stephen Photo: In January 2020, Byron Stripling was appointed Principal Pops Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, holding the Henry and Elsie Hillman Principal Pops Conductor Chair. SUPPORTING ART. This is only the second time in the orchestra’s history that a Principal Pops Conductor has ADVANCING CULTURE. been named. In this role, Stripling succeeds the Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Artist and cultural organization Award-winning conductor, composer, pianist Marvin Hamlisch. grants and resources. GCAC.org JAZZ AT THE LINCOLN THEATRE CONCERT SERIES Bird Lives! A Celebration of Charlie Parker at 100 featuring Alexa Tarantino The Lincoln Theatre 769 East Long Street LIVE IN-THEATRE, LIVE-STREAM & RECORDING FRI, APR 9, 2021 | 8 PM $30 at www.CBUSArts.com ON-DEMAND VIEWING FRI, APR 10 – THURS APR 18, 2021 $15 at www.JAG.tv This original production celebrates the centennial of saxophone great Charlie IT’S OUR PRIVILEGE TO GIVE BACK. Parker and his impact on jazz today. Rising saxophonist Alexa Tarantino Grange is committed to doing the right thing. This means more is joined by members of the than providing peace of mind for our customers. We’re giving Columbus Jazz Orchestra saxophone back to the communities where we work and live because it’s a responsibility we all share to help our communities thrive. section, strings and an all-star rhythm section. 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