America’s Art Form Series continues Wednesday at library
“A Bicoastal Musical Journey,” the next installment in the America’s Art Form Series presented by Hot Springs Jazz Society and the Garland County Library, will feature The Modern Jazz Collective.
Admission is free to the event, which will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the library auditorium. No reservations are required; call 501-6234261 for more information.
Covered container, nonalcoholic drinks are permitted. “We want people to stay hydrated in this dreadful heat,” a news release said.
“You don’t want to miss exciting, master at the keyboard Curtis Adams,” whose “bicoastal musical journey adventure” started in North Little Rock.
Adams’ father, Albert Jamaica Jive Adams, was a “bassist and trombonist performing in the New York City area with the jazz icons of the time. Curtis traveled between New York and Arkansas many times as a budding young musician although his roots go back to playing organ at church from a young age as he does every Sunday to this day.”
Adams has played with rock, R&B, Gospel, jazz and blues groups. He majored in music at Shorter College and taught at Adams Music School and is a private piano instructor.
Other musicians in The Modern Jazz Collective are saxophonist Brandon Dorris, director of the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra; bassist Brad Birge, music instructor at UALR; percussionist Svyatoslav Slavek Bolubah, originally from Ukraine, owner and percussion instructor at Ovation Music Academy in Benton.
The PA will be provided by Jazz Society Board member Jim Kelly.
The program is supported in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and by the National Endowment For the Arts.