Our special guest this week will be vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles.
"Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a vocalist on the rise, riding the momentum of two phenomenal previous releases: 2012’s RED and 2015’s Inner Dialogue. Those projects wedded Charles’s acute melodic sensibility to her incisive sociopolitical analysis, and on her latest release, Free Of Form, she strengthens those connections even more."—DownBeat
The Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice is hosting their final New Standards Jam of the semester! Taking place on Wednesday, December 6, with two sets at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., all musicians are invited to jam on tunes from the New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers. Lead sheets of tunes can be found here.
This jam will be hosted by the incredible JGJ faculty, along with a special surprise guest! All musicians are welcome at this event. As usual, the jam will take place at Wally's Cafe Jazz Club, a historic venue on the Boston jazz scene. Don't miss it!
The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice is hosting another Gathering, this time with artist-in-residence Ledisi and founder/artistic director Terri Lyne Carrington! Both are powerhouse creatives, with tremendous success in many genres including jazz, soul, and R&B.
The Gathering is an ongoing series presented by the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Events are open to the greater Berklee community and public, and feature performances, guest lectures, workshops, and discussions—all with gender and racial equity as a guiding principle.
This is the next installment of the New Standards Jam Sessions hosted by the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice! Musicians will jam on tunes by women composers in the jazz idiom. All musicians are welcome at this event!
Acclaimed bassist and Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice faculty member Linda May Han Oh will join us for this next Gathering! Oh has had tremendous success as one of New York City's best bassists. Her own albums have received extensive critical praise, and she has won numerous awards including a Grammy, the 2018-2021 Bassist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist’s Association, and 2022 Bassist of the Year in Jazztimes. She has also performed as a sideman with artists such as Pat Metheny, Kenny Barron, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Terri Lyne Carrington, Steve Wilson, Geri Allen, and Vijay Iyer.
The Gathering is an ongoing series presented by the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Events are open to the greater Berklee community and public, and feature performances, guest lectures, workshops, and discussions—all with gender and racial equity as a guiding principle.
Celebrated harpist Brandee Younger will join the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice for this week's Gathering!
Younger is known for infusing classical, jazz, soul, and funk influences with the harp tradition, pioneered by her predecessors and idols Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Younger leads her own ensemble, performs as a soloist, and has worked as a sideman for such musicians as Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Ravi Coltrane, and Reggie Workman. She has also collaborated with popular artists including Lauryn Hill, John Legend, Common, The Roots, and Moses Sumney.
Don't miss this opportunity for a Q&A with this incredible artist!
The Gathering is an ongoing series presented by the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Events are open to the greater Berklee community and public, and feature performances, guest lectures, workshops, and discussions—all with gender and racial equity as a guiding principle. This Gathering is being conducted in partnership with the Berklee String Department.
For this Gathering, the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice will welcome special guest Mike Mason, chair of the Berklee Africana Studies Department. Professor Mason will give a presentation and Q&A on what the Africana Studies Department does here at Berklee, the various programs and opportunities it has created for students, and its recent partnerships with BIJGJ.
The Gathering is an ongoing series presented by the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Events are open to the greater Berklee community and public, and feature performances, guest lectures, workshops, and discussions—all with gender and racial equity as a guiding principle.
Pianist, composer, and writer Ethan Iverson joins the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice for this week's Gathering! Ethan Iverson was a founding member of The Bad Plus, a game-changing collective with Reid Anderson and David King. Iverson also has been in the critically-acclaimed Billy Hart quartet for well over a decade. For almost 20 years, Iverson’s website Do the Math has been a repository of musician-to-musician interviews and analysis. Time Out New York selected Iverson as one of 25 essential New York jazz icons: “Perhaps NYC’s most thoughtful and passionate student of jazz tradition—the most admirable sort of artist-scholar.” Iverson has also published articles about music in the New Yorker, NPR, the Nation, and JazzTimes.
The Gathering is an ongoing series presented by the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Events are open to the greater Berklee community and public, and feature performances, guest lectures, workshops, and discussions—all with gender and racial equity as a guiding principle.
After the success of the Boston Takeover New Standards Jam Session this summer at Wally's Jazz Club, the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice is launching a continuation of these jams throughout the year! This next installment will be Wednesday, October 18, with two sets at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m, and will be hosted by JGJ founder Terri Lyne Carrington.
