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Keys to the Past: Exploring the History of Jazz Piano - A Concert and Seminar

Quentin Walston, pianist, composer, educator

(Reception 1- 1:30 pm)

Pianist and music educator Quentin Walston takes listeners through a musical history of Jazz Piano. Walston lectures and performs the nuances of the genre's development, from the 1900s ragtime style to the contemporary modal approaches of the 1960s and 1970s. Walston will cover pianists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, and more, giving participants an understanding of the historical and musical aspects of each creative giant of jazz. Q & A will follow the lecture.

$15 fee for guests and subscribers (no fee for members)