The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jason Moran Commission Project
2008 Grantee
$40,000
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was awarded $40,000 to commission an original composition by jazz pianist Jason Moran, to be developed around the Museum’s fall 2008 exhibition “Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt.” The new composition will be performed by Jason Moran and The Bandwagon (Nasheet Waits, drums, and Tarus Mateen, bass) as part of the Museum’s “Art After 5” music programming. Moran will also present a public lecture/performance about his compositional process and its intersection with the visual arts.
Chartered in 1876, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States and houses collections of works from around the world. The museum presents a Friday evening jazz series, “Art After 5,” that features performances by acclaimed jazz artists. In its 2007-08 season, “Art After 5” hosted the Philadelphia debuts of the Maria Schneider Orchestra and Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz Orchestra. http://www.philamuseum.org/artafter5/
Jason Moran and the Bandwagon, no photo credit