Combating antisemitism and racism with jazz

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 08 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The event will celebrate Albert Murray's vision of "omni-American" culture with jazz music at its center. The goal is to build a "better American future" on the basis of omni-cultural collaboration between black and Jewish Americans.

The event will feature live jazz music by the Itamar Borochov Quartet and discussions in which a variety of musicians, writers, scholars and activists will participate. Opening and leading the event will be Greg Thomas and Aryeh Tepper, two educators and writers.

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Following the opening remarks, there will be virtual readings by Chloe Valdary and Prof. Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Prof. Robert G. O'Meally and jazz master Donald Harrison will present and lead discussions.

At the end of the first day, the first annual Albert Murray Award for Omni-American Excellence will be awarded to Murray's student, Wynton Marsalis, a musician, composer and artist who is the managing director of jazz at the Lincoln Center.

Featured in the second day will be writers and thinkers like Thomas Chatterton Williams, Jonathan Silver and John Wood Jr., while author and...