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Jazz vocalist Holly Pyle and pianist/composer Darrell Grant present a 60-minute workshop about collaboration, improvisation, and the creative process. Pyle is a classically-trained performing vocalist equally at home with the music of Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell. Grant, an award-winning jazz pianist, has collaborated with vocalists ranging from Betty Carter to Esperanza Spalding. Topics will include improvisation, arranging, spontaneity, deep listening, the collaborative process and tools for creativity, including Pyle's innovative solo looping techniques. There will be opportunities for questions.
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Kevin
March 9th 2018
CD release event for Jeff Baker & the whole supporting group was great! Darrell was his usual “greatness” on the keyboards as was everyone else ! Great show & glad we did not miss it.
Portland, OR@Mission Theater
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Darrell Grant Biography
Since the release of his debut album Black Art, one of the New York Times' top ten jazz CDs of 1994, Darrell Grant has built an international reputation as a pianist, composer, and educator who channels the power of music to make change. He has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe in venues ranging from Paris’s La Villa jazz club to the Havana Jazz Festival. Dedicated to themes of hope, community, and place, Grant’s compositions include Step by Step: The Ruby Bridges Suite honoring the civil rights icon, The Territory which explores Oregon’s landscape and history, and Sanctuaries, a jazz chamber opera exploring gentrification. Since moving to Portland, Oregon, he has been named Portland Jazz Hero by the Jazz Journalist Association, received a Northwest Regional Emmy, an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, a MAP Fund grant, and the Governor’s Arts Award. He is a Professor of Music at Portland State University where he directs the Artist as Citizen Initiative.
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