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"Soul Blast - AAJPSP Presents Kicking It & Droppin' Bombs: Pittsburgh's Jazz Drumming Legacy"

              
African American Jazz Preservation Society of Pittsburgh presents
Kicking It & Droppin’ Bombs:
Pittsburgh’s Jazz Drumming legacy Featuring
Master Drummer Michael Carvin
Saturday, June 27, 2009
 

 In honor of Black Music Month (June),
the African American Jazz Preservation Society of Pittsburgh
will present
Kicking It & Droppin’ Bombs: Pittsburgh’s Jazz Drumming legacy featuring master drummer Michael Carvin
on Saturday, June 27, 2009.
 

  • Droppin’ Bombs will include a drum clinic conducted by Michael Carvin from 10-11:30am at the Afro-American Music Institute (AAMI) for AAMI students and the general public.

  • A panel discussion will be presented at the New Hazlett Theater from 3-4pm and will focus on jazz drumming as a part of the African cultural continuum; cultural and aesthetical values transmitted through jazz drumming; and today’s generation and future directions.

  • A reception and screening of the 471 Anthology will take place from 4-5:30pm

  • A 6pm solo drum performance by Michael Carvin, drawing on Pittsburgh jazz including a commemorative piece on Pittsburgh drummers.  

Michael Carvin is a drummer of extraordinary talent, inventiveness and technique. His mastery affords him the ability to handle any musical situation and to skillfully pass on his knowledge of the instrument to an ever increasing number of students internationally.

Mr. Carvin’s diversified career has included a two-year tour with Earl Grant throughout Europe, Japan and the U.S., another two years as a staff drummer with Motown Records and extensive studio and television work on the west coast. Joining Freddie Hubbard’s band in 1973, Mr. Carvin moved to New York where he quickly gained a reputation as a formidable jazz drummer.

In addition to leading his own bands, Carvin’s vast playing and recording experience includes work with Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Jackie McLean, Hank Jones, McCoy Tyner, Illinois Jacquet, Pharoah Sanders, Bobby Hutcherson, James Moody, Hampton Hawes, Ruth Brown, Abbey Lincoln, Jimmy Smith, Hugh Masekela, Alice Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Charles Brown, Terumasa Hino, Bobby Watson, Billy Bang, and many others. In 2006, Michael Carvin was the first featured artist in Branford Marsalis Music limited edition Honors Series CDs, dedicated to presenting important contributors to the jazz tradition who have not received their due.

Michael Carvin has established himself as one of the world’s most respected drum teachers and clinicians. Students from Europe, Japan and South America come to New York to study at the Michael Carvin School of Drumming. His book, “Something For All Drummers”, written with beginning, intermediate and advanced students in mind, provides information of improving sight reading and soloing abilities. Mr. Carvin has recorded over 150 albums. He endorses Pearl Drums,Istanbul Cymbals, Remo Drum Heads and the Michael Carvin Signature Drum stick which he designed.


“Michael Carvin is no ordinary drummer. He is a human rhythm machine.”
-Jon Hendricks, San Francisco Chronicle

  

For more info: 412-867-1721 or www.blackjazzpittsburgh.org