Thu Oct 15 · 7pm
Fall Lecture Series: A History of Jazz with Steve Bass
Steve Bass traces the history of jazz through Miles Davis, playing recordings from bebop, cool jazz, modal jazz and fusion to show how Davis and others reshaped the music, with live piano demonstrations of key improvisation concepts. Bass, artistic director of South Shore Conservatory, co-founded the Sinatra-inspired A Swingin Affair Big Band and wrote Swan Lake in Blue, a jazz ballet he produced in 2020.