02
Nov
Undergraduate Students, Staff, Alumni, Prospective Students, Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Residents & Fellows
Join Pitt Jazz Faculty member Dr. Aaron Johnson for a screening of the award-winning documentary film We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told, by Marty Ashby and Jeff Sewald.
The film features the talents of international Jazz Masters George Benson, Ahmad Jamal, Stanley Turrentine, Billy Eckstine, Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Billy Strayhorn and Mary Lou Williams – all Pittsburghers – and explores the social conditions and historical events that conspired to make Pittsburgh one of the leading contributors to the legacy of Jazz music in the world. The one-hour film is packed with interesting interviews, historical photographs and over 20 live performance clips of the Jazz Masters.
Introduction by Marty Ashby
FREE and open to the public
Wednesday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Cathedral of Learning, G24
Fifth Ave at Bigelow, Pittsburgh, 15213
Join Pitt Jazz Faculty member Dr. Aaron Johnson for a screening of the award-winning documentary film We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told, by Marty Ashby and Jeff Sewald.
The film features the talents of international Jazz Masters George Benson, Ahmad Jamal, Stanley Turrentine, Billy Eckstine, Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Billy Strayhorn and Mary Lou Williams – all Pittsburghers – and explores the social conditions and historical events that conspired to make Pittsburgh one of the leading contributors to the legacy of Jazz music in the world. The one-hour film is packed with interesting interviews, historical photographs and over 20 live performance clips of the Jazz Masters.
Introduction by Marty Ashby
FREE and open to the public
Wednesday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Cathedral of Learning, G24
Fifth Ave at Bigelow, Pittsburgh, 15213
Undergraduate Students, Staff, Alumni, Prospective Students, Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Residents & Fellows