Masterclass with Vernon Reid of Living Colour
online
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles
California
34.0522342
-118.2436849
Description
In this exclusive Masterclass, INTERACT LIVE with Vernon and learn guitar his favorite licks and techniques. Ask him a question you've always wanted to know! HAVE YOUR GUITAR WITH YOU! (If you choose not to bring your guitar you can still join this class.) You will be sent a Zoom link to join this session two days before.
About Vernon: Webster's Dictionary defines an artist as "one who professes and practices an imaginative art; a person skilled in one of the fine arts; a skilled performer."By any of these definitions, guitarist and composer Vernon Reid is a true artist, one whose art is a work forever in progress, from his formative years on the downtown New York jazz/funk/punk scene with Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society, to his leadership of the pioneering multi-platinum rock band Living Colour, to his collaborations with creative spirits ranging from guitarist Carlos Santana and African singer Salif Keita to choreographers Bill T. Jones and Donald Byrd.
Vernon Reid is probably best known for leading the rock band Living Colour. Vernon founded Living Colour in New York City circa 1985 and piloted the band through a remarkable career. Among the highlights: a double platinum-selling debut album Vivid, released in 1988; its gold-certified successor, Time's Up, released 1990; two consecutive Grammy Awards in the category of Best Hard Rock Performance; opening for the Rolling Stones' 1989 “Steel Wheels” tour; and appearing on the first Lollapalooza tour in the summer of 1991. Living Colour reunited in 2000, released a new album, CollideØscope in 2003, and continues to tour around the world.
In addition to Living Colour, Vernon has been engaged his usual panoply of activities including recording solo and collaborative albums, organizing unique concert events, performing as a featured guitarist and composing for dance and scoring films. Vernon released “Mistaken Identity”, his first solo album in 1996 and has collaborated with the choreographers Bill T. Jones on Still/Here and Donald Byrd on Jazztrain. He performed “Party ‘Til The End of Time” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) with The Roots, an end of the millennium tribute featuring the music of Prince’s album “1999”. Vernon has also produced records by Resorté (a Mexican hard rock group) and two Grammy nominated albums: Papa by the great African singer Salif Keita and Memphis Blood: The Sun Studio Sessions by James “Blood” Ulmer. Vernon also produced Blood’s acclaimed Birthright (2005) and Bad Blood in the City (2007). He also appears on “Guitar Oblique” with guitarists David Torn and Elliot Sharp. Vernon was also featured in the program presented by BAM and the Experience Music Project in Seattle entitled Magic Science, which includes Medesky, Martin & Wood and the Gil Evans Orchestra performing Gil Evans’ arrangements of songs by Jimi Hendrix. Vernon along with DJ Logic, calling themselves “The Yohimbe Brothers”, released an album in September, 2002, Front End Lifter, and a second album, The Tao of Yo was released in October, 2004. Vernon’s first album with his quartet, “Masque” (Leon Gruenbaum - keyboards, Hank Schroy - bass and Don McKenzie (originally Marlon Browden) - drums), entitled Known Unknown, was released in May, 2004 on Favored Nations, a new album by “Masque” (now featuring Don McKenzie on drums) Other True Self was released in April of 2006. Lately Vernon has been collaborating with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and G. Calvin Weston in a free improvisation trio grounded in funk and rock called “Free Form Funky Freqs”, they released an album in late 2007 called Urban Mythology Vol. One which has been receiving ecstatic reviews. This coming winter of 2008-2009 Vernon is collaborating with Jack Bruce, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman on a tribute to Tony Williams Lifetime which will debut in Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan.
Vernon has also contributed to film projects, he composed the score for the film Paid In Full, directed by Charles Stone III, released by Miramax in the fall of 2002. Vernon also composed the score for the celebrated documentary Ghosts of Attica which aired on Court TV in the fall of 2001, for the short film by Kasi Lemmons, Dr. Hugo, and for the documentary That’s My Face directed by Thomas Allen Harris. Vernon served as music supervisor for the film Mr. 3000 starring Bernie Mac and directed by Charles Stone III (released in September, 2004 by Buena Vista) and has recently completed scores for Five Fingers, produced by and starring Laurence Fishburne (Lions Gate Films), the horror picture Shadow: Dead Riot (released in 2005) and the PBS documentary Almost Home (which aired in 2006). Vernon also created the video art project Artificial Africa which was well received at its opening at the Gigantic Art Space in 2006.
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Start:
2020-08-08T17:00:00-07:00
End:
2020-08-08T18:00:00-07:00
Category
Music
Tickets
General Admission
150.0
USD
14