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BARRY HARRIS TRIO TO PERFORM
FOR WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY’S JAZZ ROOM SERIES The concert will begin at 4
p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on the campus in Wayne. Tickets
are available in advance or on the day of the performance at $12 standard;
$10 for senior citizens and William Paterson community; $6 for children
12 years and under and William Paterson students. Harris has been called one
of the world's greatest living modern jazz pianists. A lifelong student
of the late Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, Harris has recorded as a leader
and performed as a sideman with such luminaries as Sonny Stitt, Lee Morgan,
Coleman Hawkins, and Cannonball Adderly. Harris is also a composer, a
teacher, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Northwestern
University and an American Jazz Masters Fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts. Barry Harris and his group
will be the guests for "Sittin’ In," an informal discussion
with the artists presented before the concert. The talk begins at 3 p.m.
in room 101 of Shea Center. Admission is free to all Jazz Room ticketholders. Launched in the spring of 1978,
William Paterson’s Jazz Room Series has earned a reputation for presenting
concerts by eminent musicians in the jazz world. The series has been awarded
numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts, and Citations of Excellence from the Council
for its cultural contribution to the state. For additional information, please call William Paterson’s Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
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