Jazzmobile – Antoine Roney
July 26, 2017 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Along with being a world-renowned accomplished tenor and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist, Antoine Roney is the composer of 30 works for film and festivals from Turkey, Israel, Europe, West Africa and Asia. He has played with and has studied under the tutelage of many of the great Jazz musicians of our time such as Jackie McLean, Wallace Roney, Wayne Shorter, Pharaoh Saunders, Clifford Jordan, Herman “Jr.” Cook, George Coleman, Ornette Coleman and many others. His career spans over three and a half decades. He was [more recently] the composer for “Bringing in da Spirit,” a twelve-time, award-winning documentary on African-American midwifery. Antoine has worked with jazz greats such as Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Clifford Jordan, Ted Curson, John Patton, Rashied Ali, Arthur Taylor, Jesse Davis, Ravi Coltrane, Michael Carvin, Wallace Roney, Cindy Blackman, Freddie Hubbard, Geri Allen, Chick Corea and Elvin Jones and has released 5 recordings as a leader. He is currently a member of “The Electric Miles Band” Co-led by Miles Davis lum Vince Wilburn, Jr., Darrell Jones, and Babe Irving III. He has also worked with Will Calhoun (Living Color) on the “Elvin Jones Project” and works and tours with duo, trio, and quartet projects of his own. Some of his recent projects include working with guitarist, William “Spaceman” Patterson; organist, Greg Lewis; and his prodigy son, Kojo Roney. Says Roney, “the collaboration with these guys is very creative and explosive! With many different elements of music!!”
Cost: FREE
Grant’s Tomb – General Grant National Memorial
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