Lessons Learned from Kenny Barron (lecture)

Presented in conjunction with a concert featuring the music of Bill and Kenny Barron that will be presented on November 10 in Crowell Concert Hall at 3:00 PM.

Kenny Barron is one of the preeminent living jazz pianists with hundreds of recording credits, more than a dozen Grammy Award nominations, the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship. His influence on younger generations has manifested both through the impact of his work as a performer and composer and through direct mentorship over a quarter century as Professor of Music at Rutgers University and subsequent stints teaching jazz piano at Manhattan School of Music and Julliard. He has performed on multiple occasions at Wesleyan, both with his own trio and in collaboration with his older brother Bill (1927-1989), a saxophonist, composer, and scholar who served as Chair of the Music Department at Wesleyan

Noah Baerman, Director of the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble and Private Lessons Instructor in Jazz Piano was mentored by Kenny Barron for six years. Baerman’s own concepts as a jazz artist and educator show a significant debt to Barron’s, including aspects of both musicianship and personal comportment that they never overtly discussed. In anticipation of Baerman’s November 10 Wesleyan concert of music by Bill and Kenny Barron, he will discuss a variety of the musical and extra-musical traits that represent the younger Barron’s legacy.

Adzenyah Rehearsal Hall, Room 003 (Daltry Room) (adjoining Crowell Concert Hall), 60 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown

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