Philly funk and jazz take a
trip to Newport this summer and spark a reunion with a group of special friends
and former classmates when Newport Jazz Festival® Artistic Director Christian
McBride gets together with Questlove and Black Thought from The Roots and Joey
DeFrancesco, who all graduated from Philadelphia's Creative and Performing Arts
High School in 1989. The Philly roll call also includes Uri Caine, Orrin Evans,
Leslie Odom, Jr., George Burton and the legendary Benny Golson.
The Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset
Management welcomes The Philadelphia Experiment, a collaborative project of
Christian McBride, Amir "Questlove" Thompson and Uri Caine. The group
will take the Quad Stage at 1:55 on Sunday afternoon, bringing the Fort to life
with their eclectic mix of Caine's jazz/classical piano background, Thompson's
hip-hop drumming and McBride's virtuosity on jazz bass.
The Philadelphia Experiment was conceived by Philadelphia
producer, Aaron Levinson as a way to bring together and showcase the talents of
different Philadelphia-born musicians making Philadelphia-inspired music.
Though McBride, Thompson and Caine were familiar with one another, they had
never before played together professionally. The result of this
"experiment," their 2001 album recorded in three days, is an
amalgamation of styles coming together in a wildly funky masterpiece.
McBride, Thompson and Caine will also take the festival
stage individually with their own bands. The Uri Caine Trio plays Saturday on
the Harbor Stage at 12:10 pm, the Christian McBride Big Band plays the Fort
Stage on Saturday at 12:45 pm and The Roots mount the Fort Stage on Sunday at
5:00 pm. McBride, a Newport Jazz Festival veteran, will be be on hand this year
as both a musician and the recently appointed artistic director of the
festival.
On Friday, George Burton hits the Harbor Stage at 12:55 and
Leslie Odom, Jr, star of the Broadway hit, "Hamilton" brings his jazz
band to Newport's Quad Stage at 3:25 pm, followed by Joey DeFrancesco + The
People at 4:50 pm. The elder statesman, Benny Golson, takes his turn at Newport
with his quartet on the Harbor Stage on Saturday at 2:50 pm. Orrin Evans plays solo piano in Storyville
Sunday at 12:00 pm and then takes the piano chair in the Sean Jones Quintet at
4:05 pm.
The 2017 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global
Asset Management takes place August 4 - 6 at Fort Adams State Park and the
International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino. Artists also include
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones; Snarky Puppy; Andra Day; Branford Marsalis
Quartet; Cécile McLorin Salvant; Maria Schneider Orchestra; Hudson: Jack DeJohnette,
Larry Grenadier, John Medeski & John Scofield; Maceo Parker; Vijay Iyer
& Wadada Leo Smith and many more.
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