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POSTPONED: Emerging Artist: Joel Ross “Good Vibes”
March 14, 2020 @ 8:00 pm
THIS CONCERT, ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 14TH AT 8 PM, HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A DATE THAT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
Dear VJC Concert Goers,
We have taken the cautious route and are postponing the presentation of Joel Ross’ Good Vibes that was scheduled for this Saturday, MARCH 14th at 8 PM. We feel that postponing the show best supports the anticipated health needs of our community with respect to the Corona virus and COVID-19 situation. We are currently holding conversations on how to continue with the remaining concerts of our season. It is still too early to make that assessment. We will be sending out updates when there is further information.
TICKETS:
We will fully reimburse any tickets that were purchased for this show, or you may use them towards another concert.
Please email ginger@vtjazz.org to make arrangements.
One of our board members emphasized the healing power of music and the beauty of coming together to listen to the act of spontaneous creation – we will certainly miss that this weekend: Joel Ross’ and Good Vibes represents the optimism and unity that occurs when likeminded musicians come together to create.
I invite you to listen closely to Ross’ fine Blue Note release, KingMaker. I find the music to be somewhat cathartic considering the current circumstances. It is available on YouTube, but I encourage you to purchase the CD so that the artist gets compensated. Start with the tune “Touched by an Angel:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nbmVDsQMOA
I close with words of wisdom from my dear friend, Jan Salzman. She is the Rabbi at congregation Ruach haMaqom in Burlington, VT; in canceling her community Passover Seder she shared these words:
“My friends, we can ‘flatten the curve’ of the disease’s progression if we are ‘religious’ in our observance of maniacal personal hygiene and social distancing. Check in with each other. Take care of each other. Check in with your neighbors. Tell those whom you love, that you love them. Smile at each other. Make profound eye contact. Write letters to your friends. Contact your legislators to demand a responsive heath care system. Demand that government, at all levels, speak the objective, scientific truth to us. Above all, be kind.”
We look forward to reuniting with each of you in person as soon as possible.
In the music,
Eugene Uman
VJC Director
When deciding on which emerging artists to feature in the Jazz Center’s season, we put out a call to a group of young jazz lovers: “who would you like to hear?” The most requested name was easily vibraphonist Joel Ross, who had appeared at the VJC before as a sideman with Marquis Hill in February 2018. With the impetus of the release of his debut album on Blue Note Records, KingMaker, we are happy to present Ross at the VJC with his own ensemble. As Jazz Times noted about him: “Not since Stefon Harris’ arrival 20 years ago has the jazz world heard a young vibraphonist intent on exploring so many dimensions. KingMaker shows us a player deeply versed in the jazz vibes tradition who’s also internalized the atmospherics of ECM and EDM as surely as he has the grooves of hip-hop and M-Base. On his first recording, Ross oozes potential.”
Ross was a precocious musician growing up in Chicago, playing at church and attending programs at the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Launching quickly through the Brubeck Institute, the New School and the bands of highly esteemed young colleagues like Makaya McCraven and James Francies, Ross he is now living his dream. In the promo for Blue Note Records, Ross states “I never had a doubt that I was going to do music… My whole life it was just about finding a way to do it.” Ross is now a force to be reckoned with!
—Pitchfork
