Session 8
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Jason Moran
All of No Man’s Land Is Ours
In this Session, pianist and composer Jason Moran performs a contemporary jazz reinterpretation of the 1919 song “All of No Man’s Land Is Ours” inside Ellen Gallagher’s solo exhibition of the same title at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Written by the influential jazz pioneer James Reese Europe, who founded the regimental band the Harlem Hellfighters, the lyrics recount a soldier’s call home to his sweetheart. The track is from Moran’s latest album, From the Dancehall to the Battlefield, in which he meditates on Europe’s life, music, and legacy, revisiting the originals while incorporating new sounds and strategies, including “real-time remixing.”
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