Monday, February 22, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
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Itiberê Zwarg

Americas Society presents Jazz Studies Online (www.jazzstudiesonline.org), a website dedicated to considering jazz from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective. Jazz Studies Online is a project of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.

The event will begin with a panel discussion featuring special guest bassist Itiberê Zwarg and led by pianist/composer and specialist in Brazilian Popular Music, Cliff Korman. The conversation will focus on the presence of improvisation in the genre and on Zwarg’s work on Música Universal, an approach to music making created and inspired by Hermeto Pascoal, and carried forward by a number of musicians who emerged from his ensembles. The event will also include a presentation on the CJS website and a performance by Korman and Zwarg.
Watch the Itiberê Orquestra Família in a performance of his Pedra Vermelha.

Find out more about Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies
http://www.jazzstudiesonline.org

More information on Itiberê Zwarg
http://www.itibereorquestrafamilia.com.br

More information on Cliff Korman
http://www.cliffkorman.com

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The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is presented with the generous support of MetLife Foundation. The Spring 2010 Music Program is also supported in part by The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, the Consulate General of Brazil in New York, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.


In-kind support is graciously provided by the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Quintet of the Americas, and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. The Momenta Quartet's performance is made possible through the generous support of The Aaron Coplan Fund for New Music and Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund.