MUSIC

Composer Portrait: Matana Roberts

THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022
8:00 PM

Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$20-$30; $17-$25 seniors
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Is there a more fascinating composer/player in the field roughly denominated jazz than Matana Roberts? And does it show how meaningless genre distinctions are that among the 12 improvising musicians playing Roberts’s long-form multimedia piece about Sandra Bland are members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, of which Roberts is a member?

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