EastSide Arts Alliance presents a very special evening with jazz great David Murray. Come through and experience a rare solo saxophone and bass clarinet performance as well as a chance to hear jazz histories from Murray himself.
Celebrating the Legacy of David Murray
Sunday, October 20, 2024
7-9pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd Oakland, CA
$20 general admission / $15 Student + Senior / Sliding scale donation.
No one turned away for lack of funds
Tenor saxophone giant David Murray is perhaps the world’s most prolific recording jazz artist. He has revolutionized the 70s-80s avant-garde and expanded the music’s reach throughout the African Diaspora. Equally innovative on bass clarinet, Murray has recorded with various quartet and octet combos, poets Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange and Ishmael Reed, and is a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet.
Murray has perfected an instantly recognizable approach to improvisation that even in its freest flights acknowledges the gravity of a tradition he honors more than most; and he has altered the context for his improvisations as an infinite mosaic of musical challenges and explorations.
David Murray goes down as a worthy successor for some of the biggest names in jazz, and he is now contributing to the rise of the next generation of jazz talents.
Come listen to Murray fill the cultural center with his unique sound.