Jazz at UVA: Visionary Improvisations on Tradition and Innovation (virtual)

Virtual Event with Captions, Free and Open to All

Overview

Join Lifetime Learning for an engaging discussion on the impact of jazz both as a musical art form and a cultural force. As a uniquely American genre of music, jazz is rooted in resilience, creativity, and improvisation. It is a musical tradition that honors the past while simultaneously reinventing itself for the future. Our panelists, UVA Music Department faculty, notable performers JoVia Armstrong, Sharel Cassity, and Nicole Mitchell Gantt, will share their artistic connections to Chicago jazz, their experiences as women leaders in the jazz field, and the wide possibilities of deepening UVA’s jazz legacy.

Register: https://engagement.virginia.edu/learn/20260225-jazz