Musically Speaking: Free screening of 'Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense'

Free admission/refreshments. Cash bar, + a chance to win CD giveaways courtesy of Concord Jazz. Post-film Q&A with Donald Harrison Jr. (pictured).

Hailed as “the most significant jazz documentary in recent decades...it takes an at-times contentious look at jazz today and ponders its future.” Icons Among Us is an engaging document of many of the greatest jazz musicians of today. With Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Donald Harrison Jr., Wynton Marsalis, Medeski Martin & Wood, Nicholas Payton, Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding, and many more. (2009)

This screening is part of MUSICALLY SPEAKING, a new series of music-themed movies and documentaries on selected Mondays, curated/hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Press Street, Charitable Film Network, and WWOZ FM.