Dizzy Gillespie and Latin Jazz Focus of Nov. 18 Video and Discussion Series
November 7, 2007
The UNH Library and its New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz will present
the final episode in the six-part video and discussion series entitled “Looking
at: Jazz, America’s Art Form” Sunday, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m. at the
McConnell Center in Dover.
The focus of “Latin Jazz and Jazz as an International Music” is
the award-winning film “A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba” in
which Gillespie’s innovations in merging Afro-Cuban rhythms into jazz
are explained. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments
will be served.
After the showing, Paul Verrette, associate professor emeritus of music from
UNH, will lead a discussion exploring the film’s content and, more broadly,
the cultural and social history of jazz as it developed in America. A native
of Dover, Verrette is the music department’s liaison with the New Hampshire
Library of Traditional Jazz. Also, he continues to perform with regional jazz
groups, and writes the program essays for the UNH Traditional Jazz Series.
The McConnell Center is located at 61 Locust Street next to the Dover Public
Library and the event will be held in Meeting Room No. 2. Park behind the library
and use Door Two into the center.
The UNH Library is one of 50 libraries and nonprofit organizations nationwide
to participate in the project’s pilot program organized by Re:New Media
in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) and Jazz at Lincoln
Center. The project is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities and locally by the Seacoast Jazz Society.
“We are delighted to have been chosen as one of the pilot sites for
this series on jazz, America’s unique and historically significant art
form,” said Bill Ross, professor and head of Special Collections at the
UNH Library. “This program allows Seacoast residents to share in the
in-depth information provided by the creators of the series and to discuss
the selected films with one of the area’s fine jazz scholars. We’re
also excited to have to have the newly-renovated McConnell Center host it.”
The New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz was established in 1978 by Dorothy
Prescott, a long-time supporter of traditional jazz music in New England; it
was donated to the university upon her death. The library's mission is to preserve
the history of and foster the appreciation and future of traditional jazz music
as an original American art form. It maintains archives comprising thousands
of recordings, hundreds of jazz-related books and periodicals, photographs,
videotapes, and archival material that document the New England jazz scene
after World War II. It is housed in Dimond Library’s Milne Special Collections
and Archives Department. For more information visit: www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltj/
For more information about the presentations at the McConnell Center, contact
Ross at 2-0346 or e-mail jazz.collections@unh.edu. For additional information
about series content, multimedia, filmographies, and essays for each segment
of the series, visit: www.nvr.org/lookingatjazz/
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