Join Jazz Arts Group as we celebrate black artists and creators featured on performances, interviews, and in conversations from the past 3 years.
Check out 4 new videos a week, posted every Wednesday of February.
Performances
Cedric Easton & Circle of Friends on the Community Jazz Series, hosted at the Jazz Academy (2021)
Jerome Jennings Solidarity at the Lincoln Theatre (2021) - With his second album release, “Solidarity”, Cleveland-born, Juilliard-trained drummer/composer Jerome Jennings explores resistance and resilience through the prisms of Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and LGBTQ rights.
Byron Stripling & Bobby Floyd perform “Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-Ness If I Do” on the Southern Theatre stage as the opener from the “Speakeasy Hot Jazz”
Aaron Diehl Trio at the Lincoln Theatre (2022)
Pharez Whitted Quintet at the Lincoln Theatre (2021)
Deck The Halls
Columbus Jazz Orchestra: Home for the Holidays (2020)
Jazz and the Struggle for Freedom - A timely and thought-provoking conversation covering issues of race, diversity, civil liberties, and mass incarceration. And musical interludes throughout feature Stripling and a top-flight rhythm section and singers adding melodic counterpoint through jazz, blues, R&B and gospel styles.
Movement 1 of Chris Cole’s 9 Lives Project, an immersive musical and choreographed performance involving different mediums — including jazz, dance and animation — and reflecting on issues of social justice, racial inequality and gun violence. (2021)
Bourbon Neat - fo/mo/deep on the Community Jazz Series, hosted at the Jazz Academy (2022)
A celebration of Satchmo, America’s most beloved vocalist and trumpet extraordinaire with jazz royalty Carmen Bradford on vocals and your favorite, Byron Stripling on trumpet. (2023)
Sydney McSweeney sings St. Louis Blues with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra at the Southern Theatre, from the show “Come On, Get Happy". (2021)
Conversations
Byron Stripling interviews Carmen Bradford about her time with the Count Basie Band, and the two Grammy-award-winning albums she performed on.
A roundtable conversation about organist/composer/and Columbus Legend, Hank Marr (2020)
Byron Stripling interviews Michelle Alexander, legal scholar, award-winning New York Times opinion writer, and best-selling author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” (2020)
Byron Stripling is joined by renowned jazz scholar, Loren Schoenberg, to bring to life the deep, rich history of America’s original art form.
The great bassist, composer, arranger, and educator John Clayton joins Byron Stripling on Sunday evening to offer us insights on his life on and off the bandstand.
Grammy award-winning Ricky Riccardi,shares his experiences and knowledge as the foremost expert on Louis Armstrong. (2020)