STOOP SESSION 1 : Lathan hardy

Friday, October 14 at 7-8:30PM
At 1-800 Happy Birthday
7 Knickerbocker Avenue

Lathan Hardy is a Brooklyn-based composer/sound designer specializing in woodwind and synthesizer performance. His performance at FiveMyles with his new group, Dazzle Ships, was received with enthusiasm and excitement by the Crown Heights community, and he performed “We are Nature” in collaboration with NoOSphere Arts. Hardy has performed all over the world as a soloist and with ensembles including Solange, Son Lux, Bill Lee, 10th Intervention, and Holy Hand Grenade. Allowing music to have its own rules per artistic relationship(s) or performance venue is the main concept that unites all of his works and collaborations. "Music is mainly listening" is one his favorite quotes. In his youth, he spent time studying classical & jazz music with such greats as Robert Mann (Julliard String Quartet), Max Roach, Donald Byrd, Robert Dick, Donald Sinta, & Douglas Buys (student of Nadia Boulanger).

About Stoop sessions

Join us every other Friday at 7pm for Stoop Sessions at 1-800 Happy Birthday—the exhibition honoring Black and Brown lives killed by police. With these live jazz music events we are celebrating Black and Brown culture and legacy in America.

Stoop Sessions are organized in partnership with Ornithology Jazz Club and Gotham Yardbird Sanctuary.