{"id":48504,"date":"2018-02-19T03:59:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=48504"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:56:10","slug":"grammy-award-winning-pianist-to-play-art-tatum-memorial-jazz-scholarship-concert-feb-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_19_2018\/grammy-award-winning-pianist-to-play-art-tatum-memorial-jazz-scholarship-concert-feb-21","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Award-winning pianist to play Art Tatum Memorial Jazz Scholarship Concert Feb. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billy Childs, who took home the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for \u201cRebirth\u201d last month, will visit The University of Toledo this week.<\/p>\n

The five-time Grammy Award-winning pianist will perform at the Department of Music\u2019s Art Tatum Memorial Jazz Scholarship Concert Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall.<\/p>\n

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Childs<\/p><\/div>Since his first recordings in the 1980s, Childs has developed into a distinctive and distinguished composer. An accomplished symphonic writer, he has amassed jazz originals that can swing hard, dazzle with intricacy, touch with direct simplicity, or mesmerize with crystalline lyricism. <\/p>\n

On his new Mack Avenue debut album \u201cRebirth,\u201d Childs reaches back to the start of his astoundingly varied musical experience \u2014\u00a0leading a small jazz band of state-of-the-art musicians with his piano playing.<\/p>\n

At his musical core, Childs is an improvising pianist. He has the ability to equally distill the harmonic and rhythmic languages of classical music and jazz into his playing. The wide-ranging vocabulary on the taut track “Tightrope” begs the question of Childs’ love of classical music; “I’m not just jazz,” he stressed. <\/p>\n

His insistent pulse and melodically probing introduction to song is a key to his musical identity: welcome extended harmonic possibilities as they come along, take a flexible approach to time, and leave an open door for input from bandmates.<\/p>\n

While on campus, Childs also will conduct a free master class at 2 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall.<\/p>\n

A cash bar will be available the night of the concert.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $20 each and are available at the door and through the Center for Performing Arts Box Office at 419.530.ARTS (2787), as well as online at utoledo.tix.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All proceeds from the concert benefit the UT Department of Music\u2019s Art Tatum Memorial Jazz Scholarship Program. This scholarship is awarded to African-American students pursuing a degree in jazz performance at UT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Billy Childs will take the stage of the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall Wednesday, Feb. 21, for the Art Tatum Memorial Jazz Scholarship Concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48541,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48504\/revisions\/48541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}