Alan Shapiro

Aesthetic Realism Associate, Jazz Pianist, Music Educator

"All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." — Eli Siegel

Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 8:00 pm at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in NYC:

JAZZ & LIFE: A CELEBRATION!

featuring:

THE WORLD, AS SUCH, IS PRESENT IN JAZZ: SOME INDICATIONS by Eli Siegel with musical examples from Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton and more
FEELING BAD, GOOD WILL, & THE BLUES by Ellen Reiss commenting on a song performed by Bessie Smith
ROUGHNESS & SWEETNESS IN LOUIS ARMTRONG'S RENDITION OF "I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE" by Alan Shapiro
THE ORDERLY EXTREME by Eli Siegel discussing Shelby Foote's novella Ride Out, about a jazz musician