Donal Fox Concert
| Hours: | Wine tasting @ 6:00 p.m. Concert @ 7:00 p.m. |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | see below |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
You can expect complex Bach jazz riffs or Piazolla’s tangos that will be an entirely different take on what you’ve heard before.
Fox was a featured artist in last season’s Tanglewood Jazz Festival. He was recently awarded the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Music. The prize is awarded to composers of “exceptional accomplishment” and “outstanding artistic achievement.”
Fox’s reinventions of classical melodies and themes (also heard in his program “Mashups in Blue,” featuring music inspired by J. S. Bach, Curtis Mayfield, Robert Schumann, James Brown, Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane and his acclaimed “Monk and Bach Project” that was premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2005) have led critics like Gary Giddins to say, “Donal Fox is a remarkable pianist who has positioned himself on the cutting edge of jazz by incorporating classical techniques and melodies. The pinnacle of his achievement is found in his blending of Monk and Bach, in his vivid reimaginings of the Modern Jazz Quartet, and in such dazzling original works as ‘Scarlatti Jazz Suite’ and ‘Italian Concerto Blues.’ Donal is one of a small handful of musicians who embody the promise of jazz’s future.”
Germany’s Mittelbayrische Zeitung said of him, “Fox is a brilliant technician and an exquisite magician at the keyboard. From Bach’s ‘Preludium’ emerged a tango by Astor Piazzolla as if it were the most natural thing in the world.” Donal Fox is not to be missed. “His music is unlike that of anyone else, while at the same time it evokes McCoy Tyner, Art Tatum, the intensity of Coltrane and of the blues, shades of Bach and Cuban music”– Jazz Hot
Proceeds from this concert will benefit the North Shore Jazz Project’s educational clinics; see the inspiring videos of educational programming at northshorejazzproject.org. In the past year, the NSJP has brought jazz to over 1600 high school students on the North Shore.
Tickets are $22 in advance and $25 at the door. Cash bar.
For more info or to purchase advance tickets visit: northshorejazzproject.org. The North Shore Jazz Project is on a mission to create an environment on the North Shore where music education, performance and appreciation can flourish.
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Tickets $22 in advance $25 at the door
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10 North St., Danvers, MA, 01923 map
Phone: 781-639-2263
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