Buster Williams Bass to Infinity

Buster Williams Bass to Infinity

Buster Williams Bass to Infinity explores the intangible soul, spirit and humanity of America’s greatest art form– the truly universal music

By Northampton Jazz Festival

Date and time

Thursday, June 13 · 7 - 8:30pm EDT

Location

Northampton Center for the Arts

33 Hawley Street Northampton, MA 01060

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Refunds up to 7 days before event
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About this event

  • 1 hour 30 minutes

Date: Thursday, June 13

Location: Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street

Time: 7:00 to 8:30 PM

Reception: 6:00 to 6:45 PM

Q&A Session: After the film with director and producer, Adam Kahan and bassist, Avery Sharpe

Imagine hanging out with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, hearing them jam together, trading riffs, then riffing with words and trading stories. Bird and Diz are gone, but giants still walk among us. One of those giants is Buster Williams. Buster has played with everyone, from Sarah Vaughan to Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Art Blakey, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and on. Join Buster as he tells stories about his life and the lives of other great jazz musicians, and is joined by, and plays with, some of the greatest living contributors to this music– Benny Golson, Herbie Hancock, Rufus Reid, Christian McBride, Larry Willis, Carmen Lundy, Kenny Barron and Lenny White.

Buster Williams Bass to Infinity is a totality. It is a film about a great contributor to America’s greatest art form, and many other greats – those mentioned above, as well as Monk, Trane, Paul Chambers... All of these artists' stories makeup that thing we call Jazz, and each individual, each story, is intertwined to make up a whole.

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Northampton Jazz Festival

The Northampton Jazz Festival stages live jazz music in downtown Northampton in multiple venues over a two day period the last weekend of September each year, bringing audience members to a variety of locations downtown. The festival also screens a jazz film in early summer, hosts live jazz music at Jazzy Arts Night Out in September, and runs Jazz Artists in the Schools at JFK Middle School and Northampton High School, among other events.