[Dixielandjazz] Jazz history explored at free, six-part Sacramento Public Library series

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Jazz history explored at free, six-part Sacramento Public Library Series,
live-music, film,
and discussion series

The Sacramento Public Library will host a free six-part film, discussion,
and live music series, Looking At: Jazz, America's Art Form. The programs
will be presented at 6:30 p.m., Thursdays, September 6
through October 25, in the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, at the Central
Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento.

The series will be moderated by Steve Roach, Director of Jazz Studies at
California State University, Sacramento; Vivian Lee, jazz vocalist and
recording artist; and Dr. Joe Gilman, Professor of Music at American River
College.

Each program will use short documentary films to engage the public in a
discussion of the cultural and social history of jazz as an art form in the
United States.

At the conclusion of each program, a free concert will be performed, based
on the jazz style featured in the evening's film and discussion:

September 6:
New Orleans: The Birthplace of Jazz, with Steve Roach.
Live jazz performance with the Fulton Street Jazz Band.

September 13:
The Jazz Age and Harlem as a Center of Jazz, with Steve Roach.
Live jazz performance with the CSUS Jazz Professors.

September 20:
Jazz Vocalists, with Vivian Lee.
Live jazz performance with the Vivian Lee Quintet.

September 27:
The Jazz Swing Era, with Steve Roach.
Live jazz performance with the CSUS Big Band.

October 11:
Latin Jazz and Jazz as an International Music, with Steve Roach.
Live jazz performance with the CSUS Latin Jazz Band.

The six-week series' grand finale event will be The Devine Divas of Jazz
Concert, at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, October 25, at the Central Library, with
popular local jazz vocalists Vivian Lee, Julia Dollison, Francesca Homan,
and Meleva Steiert; and musicians Aaron Garner, Shelly Denny, and Jimmy
Robinson.

The jazz history programs are part of the Sacramento Public Library's 150th
anniversary celebration activities.

The jazz series is part of a national initiative of Re.: New Media in
partnership with the American Library Association and Jazz at Lincoln Center
and with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For more information, telephone the Sacramento Public Library at
(916) 264-2920 or visit www.saclibrary.org>.


 --Bob Ringwald K6YBV
530/642-9551
916/806-9551 Cell
www.ringwald.com
Fulton Street Jazz Band