6:30 – 8:00pm concert

8:00 – 8:30pm Q&A with Directors, Benjamin Shapiro and Sam Pollard Moderator, Ron Scott, jazz columnist with Amsterdam News

8:30pm Film Screening

Calvin Hill Quartet

A stalwart player with a six-decade career, bassist Calvin Hill has long been an in-demand collaborator for creative figureheads in jazz, including McCoy Tyner, George Coleman, Dick Griffin, Joanne Brackeen and Pharoah Sanders, as well as a long run with Max Roach, whose centennial will be marked by this performance of Hill’s quartet, featuring Steve Johns (drums), Michael Cochrane (piano), and Joe Ford (saxophone). 

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes is the story of a musician whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him. His stunningly diverse seven-decade career marked him as one of the great musical artists of the 20th century and a pioneering cultural activist at times when the nation was steeped in racism. The film follows Roach across a rich and complicated life, years of now-legendary achievement, deep personal struggle, and the price he paid for his outspoken views. His was an epic musical journey — from the revolutionary Jazz of the 1940s to the Civil Rights years, through experiments in hip hop, multi-media works, and beyond. Directors: Ben Shapiro, Sam Pollard / Music by: Christopher North / Production companies: Max Roach FIlm LLC; Black Public Media; American Masters Pictures https://www.maxroachfilm.com/ 

Supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.