Mo’ Jazz Remix Jazz Series

MEMORIAL HALL, 4 W MAIN STREET,
WILMINGTON, VERMONT
Admission by donation

For nearly a decade beginning in the late 90’s, Wilmington’s Mo’ Jazz Café, an intimate bohemian style haunt that was housed beneath the Wilmington Village Pub, served as the only legitimate club for miles around offering jazz exclusively on weekends. Pianist Christopher Bakriges held court at Mo’ Jazz, often appearing with artists making their pilgrimage from around the world. Bakriges is joined by various special guests to commemorate and honor the café in a monthly series entitled “Mo Jazz Remix.”

Refreshments, wine and beer available
All profits to benefit local non-profit organizations

Musician inspired by Matisse's 'Jazz'

CHICOPEE - The sick-bed "painting with scissors" paper cut-outs French painter Henri Matisse created before his death and the text that accompanied them when they were published in 1947 inspired Elms College music lecturer and artist-in-residence Christopher G. Bakriges - a pianist, composer and educator - to create a musical reflection on the work.

"Teaching the Eye to Hear: Musical Reflections on Matisse's 'Jazz'" is Bakriges' musical interpretation of the artist's visual images. His son, violinist David C. Bakriges, is featured on the CD.

The series of 20 Matisse plates, collectively called "Jazz," "really stimulated me to look at his composition, form and color and really respond to that in a musical way," Bakriges said. "I could see what he was doing in my mind's eye and really respond to it musically."

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