This Thursday evening at 7:30 PM in the Grant Recital Hall (behind Orwig), will be Part 4 of the Jazz film series, “Looking at Jazz” This week’s presentation features the film “Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing” a film by Oren Jacoby ’77. The film will be introduced by Ed Hayslip, a well-known record collector, jazz DJ and a walking encyclopedia of early jazz, and Ned Quist, Orwig Music Librarian.

The series, a project of RE: New Media with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, is co-sponsored by the Brown University Libraries and the Dept. of Music. Ned Quist and Matt McGarrell are the co-directors of the series.

Future Showings:

• On May 12 – Dana Gooley, Ass’t Prof. of Music will introduce John Holland’s film “A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba”
• On May 22 – Matt McGarrell, Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of Brown Bands will introduce Matthew Sieg’s documentary “Lady Day: the Many Faces of Billie Holiday”

Hope to see you there! Admission is free. For further information contact Ned Quist