God`s Trombones

Craig Harris’
God’s Trombones
Harris crafted a two-hour
work that was nothing less
than spectacular with a
top-rate band.
All-About-Jazz
~ Kurt Gottschalk
The audience wasn’t sure if they
should holler “amen” or clap;
they did both.
New York Amsterdam News
~ Ron Scott In one way, musician and composer
Craig Harris took James Weldon Johnson’s
“God’s Trombones” to heart quite literally
last week at the Apollo. Johnson’s great
collection of seven sermons, published
together in 1927, is a hallmark of AfricanAmerican sermons and spirituals, and Harris
has given the classic an interpretation of
sound – particularly through his trombone
and his cohorts on the same instrument –
a persistent cry unto the Lord.
New York Amsterdam News ~ Herb Boyd
Under Harris’s direction, the highly talented performers
blended art and spirituality in a way that brought the
house down. The experience might best be described
as a baptism in glorious sound.
Daily Challenge ~ Joan H. Allen
For more information:
Darrell Bridges
Arts & Education Continuum
Phone: 646-330-3883
Fax: 646-328-3450
Email: Darrell@ArtsEducationContinuum.org
Web: www.artseducationcontinuum.org