Join us for a Captivating Immersive Jazz-Art Experience at Lumonics

Fri Mar 31 2023 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery | Denver

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Join us for a Captivating Immersive Jazz-Art Experience at Lumonics
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Join us for a Captivating Immersive Jazz-Art Experience

Friday, March 31

7 pm to 9:30 pm

$20 advance

$25 at door

Janine Santana will be hosting the series. She is a jazz percussionist, bandleader, and radio personality. Janine Santana is the Artistic Director/Radio Personality at The Arts Validation Network and Leader/ Conguera at Janine Santana Latin Jazz. She was a popular on air host at KUVO Denver for many years. Janine hosts Afternoon Jazz Mondays through Fridays from 3-6 pm Mountain Time on TAVN-Jazz .

Join us for an evening of art, film, and live improvisational jazz accompanied by the Lumonics light sculptures/video. Janine will also be selecting a jazz film for each event. The evening will conclude with Lumonics Immersed, a transformative multi-sensory art experience.

Performers:

Hugh Ragin, trumpet

Jon Long, trumpet and electronics

Janine Santana, percussion


About the Musicians:

Hugh Ragin is a lecturer of Jazz Studies at the College of Music at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He was raised in Houston, Texas, and began playing trumpet in his early teens, taking lessons in classical music; he was also a member of the Houston All-City High School Orchestra.


Ragin earned a degree in music education from the University of Houston and a degree in classical trumpet performance from Colorado State University. He continued his education in 1978 at the Creative Music Studio with Roscoe Mitchell. A year later, he performed with Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith and the Creative Orchestra at the Moers Festival in Germany. He then toured with Anthony Braxton.


During the early 1980s, Ragin toured with jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. He began an association with David Murray, becoming a member of Murray’s band in the 1980s. Currently, Ragin is a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.


Ragin earned a DMA in jazz studies from the University of Colorado-Boulder and leads a variety of ensembles, master classes and workshops.


Jon Long is a musician and producer based in Colorado who pursues a genreless, improvisational style that incorporates both traditional instruments and electronic elements. Jon began his musical journey as a trumpet player and honed his skills studying jazz under the tutelage of Hugh Ragin at the University of Northern Colorado.


During the pandemic, when all the clubs closed down, Jon started experimenting with electronic music production at his home studio, where he quickly became obsessed with creating innovative soundscapes and beats to solo over. Over time, he has cultivated a unique sound that blends elements of jazz, hip-hop, and electronic music into something entirely his own.


Jon’s music is marked by its improvisational spirit, with each performance taking on a life of its own as he draws on a vast array of musical influences to create something new and exciting. His most recent recordings feature unreleased sessions with Hugh Ragin, showcasing the evolution of his sound over the years.


Despite his busy schedule as a business systems architect, Jon remains dedicated to his music, mostly focusing on studio sessions, recording and releasing albums for streaming, and collaborating with other artists to create new and exciting projects.


Janine Santana was born in Brooklyn, NY to a multi-cultural family in an ethnically diverse neighborhood. Her family is comprised of professional musicians, actors, dancers, world travelers as well as artists and engineers! The food, languages, music and arts that influenced her childhood and youth are of Puerto Rican, Lebanese, Finnish cultures in her own immediate family, Recording several Jazz records as side-player and one as a leader, she has played regionally and across the country with many national Jazz and Latin Jazz treasures.


more info:

l[email protected]

https://lumonics.net/jazz

303.568.9406


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery, 800 E. 73 Avenue, #11, Denver, United States

Tickets

USD 20.00

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