The concert featuring Yosvany Terry that the Center for Jazz Studies will present this coming March will emphasize Terry as a jazz-idiom composer, i.e. one whose written compositions include spaces open for improvisation. Through this music itself as well as through the compose's spoken announcements preceding each musical piece, Terry and his quintet will concentrate on the African Diasporic travels
and geographies informing their work. A native Cuban who now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts (where he teaches at Harvard), Terry is a world traveler who (on the road and through the media) consciously absorbs a wide variety of black musical influences (among many others). He induces each geographical/cultural influence -to undergo a kind of chemical change,- as he puts it, as he builds a cosmopolitan musical vocabulary that is all his own. This concert will offer the Columbia community an evening of very alluring music by a rising young composer whose eloquence concerning his black musical travels is very great.
