12399: Tribute to Dave Young: Slavin (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: PSlavin@unicefusa.org

For further information:

info@davidxyoung.net

NY Tribute to David X. Young

June 26, 2002

where:

The Jazz Gallery
290 Hudson St., near Spring St.
NY (Manhattan)
212.242.1063


when:

June 26, 2002
7:00p.m. - 11:00p.m.

Here is the press release sent out by the Jazz Gallery:

"The Jazz Gallery to Host Tribute to David X. Young"

This Wednesday, June 26, 2002, from 7-11pm, The Jazz Gallery will host a
tribute to the late painter and photographer David X. Young. The event has
been organized by his daughter, Eliza, to honor her father's legacy and to
celebrate his seminal role both in an important period of jazz history and
in the lives of countless musicians and artists who benefited from his
generosity of spirit. The tribute will feature a retrospective exhibit of
David's paintings and his photography as well as live music by a group of
musicians who regularly participated in the "jazz loft's" various musical
activities: David Amram - French horn/ piano/kazoo, Bill Crow - bass and
Teddy Charles - vibraphone.

>From the mid-50's well into the 60's, David X Young held open-door jam
sessions in his painter's loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in the flower district
of Manhattan, where musicians such as Zoot Sims, Thelonious Monk, Hall
Overton, Warne Marsh, Charles Mingus, Bill Crow, Teddy Charles, Gerry
Mulligan, David Amram, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim Hall, Lee Konitz and a host of
others regularly played, rehearsed, performed and socialized.

A Fulbright Scholar to Haiti, David X. Young painted, filmed and studied
local culture there intermittently over a period of thirty years. While
living in Manhattan, he shared his loft in the Flower District with LIFE
photographer W. Eugene Smith, maintaining friendships with fellow artists
from a variety of backgrounds: William DeKooning, Zero Mostel, Calvin
Albert and Franz Kline. As an artist and jazz enthusiast, Young opened the
door of his loft to any musician who needed a place to practice, play,
compose or simply lay cool. He was consequently able to paint and
photograph some of the more colorful jazz musicians of the period.

David Young was born in Eastham, Cape Cod on Feb. 15, 1930. He passed away
from emphysema in New York City on May 22, 2001.

The Jazz Gallery is a not-for-profit jazz cultural center providing
exhibition and performance space for work in the arts--visual, literary and
musical--that takes jazz as its central influence. We understand the
pioneering efforts of David X. Young to be directly related to our own
overall mission: to ensure that the bridges connecting various forms of
artistic expression remain open, active and inspired.

The Jazz Gallery is located at 290 Hudson Street (below Spring), in lower
Manhattan and can be reached by the IRT #1 train to Houston Street or the
IND C or E trains to Spring Street. This event is open to the general
public - admission is $12 for the general public, and $10 for Jazz Gallery
members.

For further information:

info@davidxyoung.net





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