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Yujc Presents: 1959 Breaking Free at Hopper Cabaret

Courtesy of Dani Zanuttini-Frank | Posted on December 1, 2019

Where

Hopper Cabaret
189 Elm Street
New Haven, CT
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Yujc Presents: 1959 Breaking Free at Hopper Cabaret

When

Sat, December 7, 2019
8:00 pm

Musicians

About

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the pivotal year 1959 in jazz history, YUJC has assembled 24 student musicians from across campus to perform the music of Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck, and Art Blakey. Each of these artists embodies a conception of freedom relevant to the 1959 zeitgeist. On the eve of the Civil Rights Movement and the counterculture of the 1960s, jazz broke free from the constraints of the musical and socio-political status quo, approaching social justice activism in disparate ways, questioning the freedom of the soul, and challenging the notions of what jazz is and would become...

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