Jesse created live visuals for several performances in Wadada Leo Smith’s inaugural Create Festival at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT, April 8-9, 2017.<\/p>\n
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Saturday, April 8<\/p>\n
Seminar 1:00pm- 3:00pm<\/p>\n
A dialogue illustrating Wadada Leo Smith\u2019s music, with a focus on the compositions being performed during the festival, with video images by Jesse Gilbert. Premium coffee brewed by Wadada and Creole gumbo prepared by Gianna Chachere.<\/p>\n
Concert 7:00pm<\/p>\n
1. Lamar Smith Experiment
\nLamar Smith- guitar
\nWilliam Brennan- guitar
\nBentley Lewis- guitar<\/p>\n
2. New Dalta Ahkri
\nWadada Leo Smith- trumpet
\nDwight Andrews- saxophones\/flutes
\nBobby Naughton- vibraphone<\/p>\n
The Earth, a blue sanctuary of translucent light: Gardens of Fire-flowers, Underground Seas and Pomegranate Lagoons<\/p>\n
3. Mbira
\nWadada Leo Smith- trumpet
\nMin Xiao Fen- pipa and voice
\nPheeroan akLaff- drums and percussion
\nDark Lady of the Sonnets
\nMbira \/ RedKoral Quartet \/ Jesse Gilbert- video artist<\/p>\n
The Montgomery Bus Boycott: 381 Days: Fire (from Rosa Parks Oratorio)<\/p>\n
4. RedKoral Quartet
\nShalini Vijayan- violin
\nMona Tian- violin
\nLorenz Gamma- viola
\nAshley Walters- cello<\/p>\n
String Quartet No. 9
\nMa Rainey
\nMarian Anderson
\nRosa Parks
\nAngela Davis<\/p>\n
String Quartet No. 10
\nEllingtonia \/ Reminiscing in Tempo (Movement No. 1)
\nAnthony Davis- piano with RedKoral Quartet<\/p>\n
5. Wadada Leo Smith\u2019s Golden Quintet
\nWadada Leo Smith- trumpet
\nAnthony Davis- piano
\nAshley Walters- cello
\nJohn Lindberg- bass
\nPheeroan akLaff- drums
\nJesse Gilbert- video artist<\/p>\n
America\u2019s National Parks:<\/p>\n
New Orleans: The National Cultural Park USA 1718
\nYellowstone: The First National Park and the Spirit of America- The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera and Its Ecosystem<\/p>\n
Sunday, April 9<\/p>\n
Seminar 1:00pm- 3:00pm
\nA dialogue concerning Ankhrasmation, a symbolic music language, with video images by Jesse Gilbert. Premium coffee brewed by Wadada and Creole gumbo prepared by Gianna Chachere.<\/p>\n
Concert 7:00pm<\/p>\n
Wadada Leo Smith: A Thelonious Reflection
\nWadada Leo Smith- trumpet
\nCrepuscule with Nellie
\nMonk and his Five Point Ring at The Five Spot
\nRuby, My Dear
\nRound About Midnight<\/p>\n
2. The Crystal Sextet
\nStephanie Griffin- viola
\nGwen Lester- viola
\nTanya Kalmanovitch- viola
\nJason Kao Hwang- viola
\nHardedge- electronics
\nWadada Leo Smith- trumpet
\nPacifica, Viola Quartet No. 12 with Trumpet and Electronics<\/p>\n
3. Wadada Leo Smith\u2019s Golden Quintet
\nWadada Leo Smith- trumpet
\nAnthony Davis- piano
\nAshley Walters- cello
\nJohn Lindberg- bass
\nPheeroan akLaff- drums
\nJesse Gilbert- video artist<\/p>\n
America\u2019s National Parks<\/strong><\/p>\n The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River- a National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC. Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920- 2002: A Literary National Park. Sequoia \/ Kings Canyon National Parks: The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems. Yosemite: The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890.<\/p>\n World Premiere<\/strong><\/p>\n All Compositions by Wadada Leo Smith, KIOM Music, ASCAP. except \u201cCrepuscule with Nellie,” \u201cRuby, My Dear” by Thelonious Monk, and \u201cRound About Midnight” by Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen & Cootie Williams.<\/p>\n CREATE Festival is made possible by the generous funds from Doris Duke Foundation, Creative Capital, and private donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesse created live visuals for several performances in Wadada Leo Smith’s inaugural Create Festival at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT, April 8-9, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessegilbert.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}