Event Concerts and Performances Live! At The Library: Bill Charlap Trio with Jon Faddis, Trumpet

The Library’s salute to Billy Strayhorn celebrates the music and legacy of an original American voice, presenting two remarkable concerts, a lecture by the composer’s biographer David Hajdu, a symposium and screenings of two landmark movies with scores representing his work in the realm of film.  Our minifestival is a unique offering curated from the riches of the Billy Strayhorn Collection: nearly 8,000 documents, including manuscripts, sketches, photos and papers. Expert Strayhorn scholars will examine the composer’s career, from his earliest years in Pittsburgh through his 28-year collaboration with Duke Ellington.  

Bill Charlap and his Trio appear with a terrific partner for a charming, close-focus encounter with Strayhorn’s unforgettable songs—and some scintillating piano solos.  Trumpeter Jon Faddis is an artist known for “…making the practically impossible seem effortless” (Time Out New York).  It’s a sizzling collaboration, one appropriate to honor what jazz scholar Larry Appelbaum called “the creative work of a musical architect of the highest order…one who added greatly to the brilliance and beauty of 20th-century music.” 

Presented through the generous support of the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family

Preconcert Conversation with A. Alyce Claerbaut, President, Strayhorn Songs, Inc.: 6:30pm, Whittall Pavilion

Part of “Salute to Strayhorn”