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Sunday marked the day the great, and late, innovative jazz trumpeter Clifford “Brownie” Brown was born. He would’ve turned 80.
As a tribute to the legendary trumpeter, the Christina Cultural Arts Center, The Grand and the City of Wilmington Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs will host the 3rd Annual Clifford Brown Year-Round Jazz Series at the CCAC at 7 p.m. on Friday.
Philadelphia saxophonist Lynn Riley and her crew, The World Mix, will headline Friday’s concert and you can certainly expect them to set the CACC on fire with their eclectic sound.
“She plays with a lot of gusto and passion,” said Raye Avery Jones, the executive director of the CACC, who is also a longtime friend of Riley. “She’s very expressive but she plays with a lot of force. She’s very fiery. Many of the compositions [she will perform] are original works.”
Despite having played with jazz legends such as Grover Washington Jr., Philly Joe Jones, Riley’s tunes are very distinct from traditional jazz music since she offers more of a worldly sound. While earning her B.A. in enthomusicology at the University of Hawaii, Riley was exposed to different cultural music, Avery Jones said.
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IF YOU GO: WHERE Christina Cultural Arts Center, 705 N. Market St., Wilmington
COST $20 |
Influenced by the variety of sounds she heard, Riley has incorporated cultural elements from different countries and added it to her own music. At any given time you might hear her play music that has a Latin or Native American flavor.
Riley has been expanding her composing vocabulary and style by traveling and performing in countries such as Cuba, South Africa, Bolivia and Brazil. This multi-cultural exposure gives Riley’s music a unique, traditional ethnic sound blended with her original ideas and jazz roots, culminating in a funky, accessible world-influenced mix.
Avery Jones loves the idea of showcasing a non-traditional jazz musician such as her to the community, because she wants to show audiences that jazz music isn’t limited to the tunes that were played by the legends of the past.
Sunday marked the day the great, and late, innovative jazz trumpeter Clifford “Brownie” Brown was born. He would’ve turned 80.
As a tribute to the legendary trumpeter, the Christina Cultural Arts Center, The Grand and the City of Wilmington Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs will host the 3rd Annual Clifford Brown Year-Round Jazz Series at the CCAC at 7 p.m. on Friday.
Philadelphia saxophonist Lynn Riley and her crew, The World Mix, will headline Friday’s concert and you can certainly expect them to set the CACC on fire with their eclectic sound.
“She plays with a lot of gusto and passion,” said Raye Avery Jones, the executive director of the CACC, who is also a longtime friend of Riley. “She’s very expressive but she plays with a lot of force. She’s very fiery. Many of the compositions [she will perform] are original works.”
Despite having played with jazz legends such as Grover Washington Jr., Philly Joe Jones, Riley’s tunes are very distinct from traditional jazz music since she offers more of a worldly sound. While earning her B.A. in enthomusicology at the University of Hawaii, Riley was exposed to different cultural music, Avery Jones said.
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IF YOU GO: WHERE Christina Cultural Arts Center, 705 N. Market St., Wilmington
COST $20 |
Influenced by the variety of sounds she heard, Riley has incorporated cultural elements from different countries and added it to her own music. At any given time you might hear her play music that has a Latin or Native American flavor.
Riley has been expanding her composing vocabulary and style by traveling and performing in countries such as Cuba, South Africa, Bolivia and Brazil. This multi-cultural exposure gives Riley’s music a unique, traditional ethnic sound blended with her original ideas and jazz roots, culminating in a funky, accessible world-influenced mix.
Avery Jones loves the idea of showcasing a non-traditional jazz musician such as her to the community, because she wants to show audiences that jazz music isn’t limited to the tunes that were played by the legends of the past.
