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"SPIRITWORLD" DVD released!
Live at CUE Art Foundation
featuring:
William Parker, Oluyemi Thomas, Lisa Sokolov & Joe McPhee
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This DVD features a 74 minute jazz musical performance in the surounding installation of painting and sculpture by Jeff Schlanger. This DVD also included is a 30 minute documentary about painter and sculptor and also a 7 minute gallery of photos.

Jeff Schlanger is a familiar sight to anyone attending free improvisation concerts in New York City. Stationed in the front row at such venues as The Stone, Tonic and during the annual Vision Festival, With brushes and pens in both hands, he creates vibrant, colorful depictions of what has been called “ecstatic jazz,” finishing his portraits as the last notes ring in the air.

As he says in the 30-minute documentary on Spiritworld, his approach is to work “as if you were trying to embody the whole experience of being in a dynamically-created musical event.” The DVD also presents a beautiful concert in its entirety, featuring bassist William Parker, vocalist Lisa Sokolov and horn players Oluyemi Thomas and Joe McPhee during an opening reception for a show of Schlanger’s “Music Witness” work at CUE Foundation in Chelsea. Schlanger is shown, like the musicians, creating in real time. A final, six-minute program presents Schlanger’s work on its own in a slideshow format.

Frank Rubolino, writing for the online music magazine One Final Note, said:

Jeff Schlanger … breathes sustaining visual life into fleeting musical moments in an attempt to refute through his own medium Eric Dolphy's statement that after hearing live music, "It's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.” He produces lasting documentation of the unique kinetic energy that surrounds each performance by transfixing the music's image into a spectrum of vibrant colors. His motivation is a deeply felt love for the music, and an equally strong love for painting and sculpture.

Spiritworld DVD documents the spirit of Jeff Schlanger, as he has so often with the best of today’s jazz musicians.

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Email :

jeff@musicWitness.com

SPIRITWORLD DVD
with:
William Parker
Oluyemi Thomas
Lisa Sokolov
Joe McPhee
&
Jeff Schlanger