Jazz Film Night
Buster Williams Bass to Infinity
Directed and Produced by Adam Kahan
Buster Williams Bass to Infinity explores the intangible soul, spirit and humanity of America’s greatest art form – the truly universal music known as Jazz.
Event Information
Director & Producer Adam Kahan
Date: June 13, 2024
Film Showing: Buster Williams Bass to Infinity
Location: Northampton Center for the Arts
Time: 7:00 to 8:30 PM
Address: 33 Hawley Street, Northampton
Reception: 6:00 to 6:45 PM
Q & A Session: After the film with director & producer Adam Kahan and bassist, Avery Sharpe
Tickets: $15 on Eventbrite; $20 at the door
Imagine hanging out with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, hearing them jam together, trading riffs, then riffing with words and trading stories. Bird and Diz are gone, but giants still walk among us. One of those giants is Buster Williams.
Buster has played with everyone, from Sarah Vaughan to Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Art Blakey, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and on. Join Buster as he tells stories about his life and the lives of other great jazz musicians, and is joined by, and plays with, some of the greatest living contributors to this music– Benny Golson, Herbie Hancock, Rufus Reid, Christian McBride, Larry Willis, Carmen Lundy, Kenny Barron and Lenny White.
Buster Williams Bass to Infinity is a totality. It is a film about a great contributor to America’s greatest art form, and many other greats – those mentioned above, as well as Monk, Trane, Paul Chambers. . . . All of these artists' stories makeup that thing we call Jazz, and each individual, each story, is intertwined to make up a whole.
Thanks to our exclusive Jazz Film Night Sponsor
The Northampton Jazz Festival hosts its annual Jazz Film Night, which includes a reception, and a Q & A with the director and others associated with the film.