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Saturday, June 24, 2023

Brent Hayes Edwards Pairs Beauford's Composition 16 with Jazz Music

Several weeks ago, I posted an article that paired several of Beauford's abstracts with classical music by Tchaikovsky: Beauford and Tchaikovsky

So I was intrigued when I read that Brent Hayes Edwards, Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was recently inspired to pair Beauford's magnificent abstract Composition 16 with a piece called "Midnight Sun" by jazz musician and composer Henry Threadgill.

Composition 16
(1954-1956) Oil on canvas
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

Edwards and Threadgill co-authored Threadgill's autobiography, Easily Slip into Another World, which was published in May 2023. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC is featuring Edwards on its Website in an article that announces a playlist of Threadgill's music coupled with Edwards' musings about how this music intertwines with several works on display at the museum.

You can find the music on Spotify in a mixtape created by MoMA called Brent Hayes Edwards Slips into Another World.

MoMA Mixtape image from Spotify
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Click HERE to listen (look for Track 2 on the playlist).

Click HERE to read the entire article on MoMA's Website.

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