(Milton
Academy Jazz Tour 2019)
The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music will
presents the next Twosday gig with Milton Academy on March 12, 2019.
Milton Academy is a private high school
near Boston, USA. With students from 21 countries and 26 states, the 240 year
old school has an outstanding academic focus and its alumni include T S Eliot,
Buckminster Fuller, Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Governor Deval Patrick and
James Taylor.
Milton Academy jazz students love South
African jazz. Upon hearing the group perform his compositions, South Africa’s
beloved jazz musician, Abdullah Ibrahim, invited the Milton jazz group to tour
South Africa in 1992. Milton Academy jazz students are now touring South Africa
for the 12th time and have several ongoing connections with South African
township music programmes. On these tours, the Milton jazz groups have
delivered over $230,000 of music materials to South African schools.
Since its beginning 45 years ago, Milton
Academy’s Jazz Program has grown steadily from six students in one group to
sixty students in seven groups. The Milton Academy Jazz Combo has twice been
recognized as the “Best High School Jazz Group” by DownBeat magazine.
They have performed in 15 states, eight
countries, at European jazz festivals, at ten international jazz education
conferences, on four nationally broadcast PBS radio shows and twice at the
White House for President Clinton. They have also opened and/or played for
Abdullah Ibrahim, Desmond Tutu, Danny Glover, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Elvin
Jones, Thelonious Monk Jr., James Taylor and Victor Wooten.
Bob Sinicrope is the programme’s founder
and director. He is the Inaugural Recipient of the John LaPorta Jazz Educator
of the Year in 2007 and is the Past President of the Jazz Education Network.
Bob is a jazz bassist and has visited South Africa several times as a
player/educator and offered clinics throughout South Africa and in dozens of
other countries on six continents. He also teaches for Jamey Aebersold’s Summer
Jazz Workshops and Victor Wooten’s Berklee College Bass Weekend Workshop.
Joining Milton Academy will be special
guest Durban pianist Melvin Peters, as well as the Durban High School jazz
students led by Natalie Rungan. The band will also play a Hugh Masekela tribute
medley.
The concert takes place on March 12, 2019,
at 18h00 (doors open at 17h30) at The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music (CJPM),
Level 2, Shepstone Building at UKZN Howard College Campus.
General admission R80 (R50 pensioners, R25 students).
For more details contact Thuli on 031 260 3385 or email Zamat1@ukzn.ac.za
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