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Please join us at Slought Foundation for a live concert with Uri Caine on Thursday, October 12th, 2006 from 8-10pm. This concert is a preview of the 2006 Slought Jazz Fest (October 26-29th), and is the first event in the “The Philadelphia Series,” a new series showcasing local jazz musicians. More information on the series and Slought Jazz fest is available here.
As Slought Foundation approaches its fifth anniversary, and we reflect on the ways our programming has fostered dialogue about contemporary culture, we invite your continued intellectual and financial support. Whether this is your first visit to Slought Foundation or you have attended events in the past, please consider bringing a friend to this performance and introducing yourself to us.
Uri Caine is a classical and jazz pianist and composer. A Philadelphia native, Caine began playing in bands with Joe Jones, Hank Mobley, Johnny Coles, Odean Pope, Jymmie Merritt, Bootsie Barnes and Mickey Roker. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and studied music composition with George Rochberg and George Crumb. Since 1981 he has performed and recorded professionally, releasing 16 albums that pay homage to jazz pianists like Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, and classical composers Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler. His third CD, "Urlicht/Primal Light", featured arrangements of the music of Gustav Mahler and won the international "Composer's Hut" award for Best Mahler CD of 1997. During the past several years, Caine has worked in groups led by Don Byron, Dave Douglas, Terry Gibbs and Buddy DeFranco, Clark Terry, Rashid Ali, Arto Lindsay, Sam Rivers and Barry Altschul, the Woody Herman Band, Annie Ross, the Enja Band, Global Theory and the Master Musicians of Jajouka. He has recently recorded Bach’s “The Goldberg Variations”, Beethoven’s “Diabelli Variations” (an arrangement of Beethoven's Opus 120 for piano and orchestra with Concerto Koln), and released a collection of Mahler’s songs, titled “Dark Flame.”
Caine has received commissions from the Vienna Volksoper, The Seattle Chamber Players, The Beaux Arts Trio, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, and, in Philadelphia, Relâche Inc. He has received grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Foundation, and was named Director of the Venice Biennale for Music in September 2003, where he also premiered his new work "The Othello Syndrome."
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