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Jazz artists and aficionados from across the country will converge on Chicago for a “Celebration of Life Ceremony” honoring Richard Wang, the eminent jazz scholar and teacher who died Oct. 10 at 88 in Chicago of complications from muscular dystrophy.
The event will start at 4 p.m. Sunday at the University of Chicago’s Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th St.
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As visitors arrive, a recording of music of Jean Sibelius will be played on the sound system. A procession of drummers from Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago will begin the program, followed by pianist Willie Pickens and trumpeter Orbert Davis playing “Potato Head Blues” (famously recorded by Louis Armstrong); video statements from Roscoe Mitchell and Jon Faddis; trumpeter Art Hoyle leading a revived Fletcher Basington Orchestra, which Wang co-founded with Hoyle, in music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn; Mwata Bowden’s Jazz X-tet featuring members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in Douglas Ewart’s “Red Hills”; plus guest speakers.
Donations in Wang’s honor can made to the Jazz Institute of Chicago, which Wang served as president; visit www.jazzinchicago.org.
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