34 Tinker Street
Woodstock
Jazz Luminary Jack DeJohnette Performs “Concert for Inner Peace”
Solo piano performance to benefit arts and social services in Woodstock
WOODSTOCK, NY (December 23, 2016) – Jack DeJohnette – world-renowned drummer, pianist, composer and National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master – will offer an intimate solo piano concert, “Concert for Inner Peace,” on Friday, January 20, 2017 at 7:30 P.M. at the Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock. Tickets are $25 (general seating) and $75 (first three rows).
DeJohnette, a longtime Woodstock resident, is donating proceeds from his performance to Family of Woodstock, The Byrdcliffe Guild and The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. In this generous spirit, DeJohnette continues Woodstock’s long history as a community that comes together during unsettling times. Now more than ever, trying to help make the world a more peaceful place is vitally important.
Last summer DeJohnette performed an intimate piano concert at The Byrdcliffe Barn during a dramatic thunder and lightning storm. Attendees commented on how magical and brilliant the concert was, especially because it was performed in the dark without electricity. On January 20th, audiences will once again have the opportunity to experience his unrivaled relationship to the piano’s trance-inducing percussive power.
Jack DeJohnette has collaborated with the world’s most respected jazz artists, including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett and countless others with whom he has been working for more than 30 years. He has made a career of both solo performances and intensive collaborations.
As a child, DeJohnette played classical piano before learning the drums. His mastery of both percussion instruments is apparent in his deeply interrelated musical approach. DeJohnette’s piano rhythms resound like mesmerizing pedaled drum riffs and yet, while rhythm is at the core of his musical thinking, his compositions are sustained equally by melody and narrative. I think of myself as a colorist on the drums, like a painter,” he says. “I can work within time, but I can also be free of it, more elastic. Piano is the same way.”
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DeJohnette has been performing with piano trios and other ensembles throughout his career, and released his second solo piano album, Return, in April 2016. This vinyl-only release is comprised of original compositions by DeJohnette plus one of his longtime favorite pieces by Milton Nascimento. Return is meditative, complex and impressionistic, offering multiple opportunities to highlight DeJohnette’s technical virtuosity on the keyboard. One of the new pieces is a tribute to Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies.
The evening will include a raffle of two items; one is a limited edition, signed, vinyl LP of Jack’s solo piano recording Return, and the other is a collection of an assortment of Jack’s signed CDs. Raffle tickets are $20 each. Proceeds benefit Family of Woodstock, The Byrdcliffe Guild, and The Woodstock Artists Association.
“Concert for Inner Peace,” a solo piano performance by Jack DeJohnette
Tickets: $25 general seating/$75 first three rows
As this is a benefit, additional donations are welcomed
Date: Friday, January 20, 2017
Time: 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00)
Location: The Kleinert/James Gallery, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY
Information/tickets: Call The Byrdcliffe Guild at 845.679.2079, WAAM at 845.679.2940, or visit http://www.woodstockguild.org/jackdejohnette.html
Jack Dejohnette is available for interviews prior to this concert. Contact Joan Clancy at joanmclancy@verizon.com or 781.500.9466 to schedule. For more information, please visit http://jackdejohnette.com.
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Family of Woodstock, the oldest hotline in the country, provides daily support for our community. Operating as a walk in center, hotline and text line, Family staff and volunteers help with a wide array of issues throughout the year. Open daily, Family offers nonjudgmental, confidential connection to those in need. For more information, please visit http://www.familyofwoodstockinc.org.
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild . . .to follow. For more information, please visit http://www.woodstockguild.org.
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Woodstock Artists Association & Museum is a not-for-profit membership organization featuring a landmark collection of regional art, contemporary art galleries, a dynamic education program and an archive of materials associated with artists of the Woodstock region. For more information, please visit http://www.woodstockart.org.
