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Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series

Performance Concepts: Moving the Music Forward
A performance workshop with guest artists Vincent Davis and Isaiah Collier

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Vincent Davis, Chicago native, is an internationally acclaimed jazz percussionist, composer, and teacher. The seed of music was planted in Davis early, growing up in a home filled with the influences of rock, jazz and gospel. In 1979 Davis left Chicago to attend the Milwaukee Conservatory of Music, where his love of jazz and skill at drumming flourished. It was here that Davis met his mentor Manty Ellis.

Since 1985, he has belonged to groups of Roscoe Mitchell as his Note Factory and its trio with Harrison Bankhead and Jaribu Shahid, with whom he also toured several times in Europe and Asia and performed at international festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival . He is on Mitchell’s albums Songs in the Wind (1991), This Dance Is For Steve McCall (1993), and Come And See What There Is To See (2019) as well as sound recordings of Jodie Christian and Scott Fields. He founded the ensembles Laws of Motion and Percussion Plus. He has also collaborated with Matthew Shipp, Arthur Blythe, David Murray, Joseph Jarman, Marilyn Crispell, Von Freeman, Hamid Drake, Ed Wilkerson and many other musicians. In the field of jazz, Davis has participated in over forty recording sessions since 1988. He has also mentored an entire generation of upcoming Chicago artists including Corey Wilkes, Junius Paul, Isaiah Collier, Jeremiah Hunt, Emma Dayhuff, and Micah Collier.

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Isaiah Collier is a Chicago/Brooklyn based Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, curator, activist, motivational speaker and educator. Collier is most known for his work as a saxophonist, and drummer with his group “Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few”. Collier’s sound and approach is drawn from the influences of John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, Wayne Shorter, Ari Brown and Gene Ammons. Collier has shared the stage with many distinguished artists—Chance The Rapper, Lewis Nash, Waddada Leo Smith III, Junius Paul, James Carter, Rene Marie, Marquis Hill, Bennie Maupin,Rudy Van Gelder, Angel Bat Dawid, Kahil El’Zabar and many more. Collier has performed at The Jazz Showcase, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, Lithuania Jazz Festival, The White House, Chicago Jazz Festival, New York Winter Jazz Festival, The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sons D’hiver Festival(Paris), The Logan Center, The Harris Theatre. Isaiah Collier is also a former fellow of the prestigious Dave Brubeck Institute Stockton, Ca.

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This event is supported by the Johansen Artist in Residence Fund.