Music

Creative Capital supports jazz, opera, and music artists for the creation of bold, risk-taking, and genre-stretching projects—including Etienne Charles, Kassa Overall, Vijay Iyer, Raven Chacon, Paola Prestini, Nona Hendryx, and Terri Lyne Carrington.

Featured Music

Jab Molassie performed by Etienne Charles & Creole Soul, feat. 2001 Jab Molassie; from Carnival : The Sound of A People, Trinidad & Tobago

Etienne Charles

Earth Tones

Earth Tones is a multimedia jazz performance featuring original compositions that document and feature peoples and regions that are, and will be severely affected by climate change.
photo of exhibit, including “Conseulo en B-639” (Kokayi), Jazzwoman” (Tracy Love and Terri Lyne Carrington), “Rest: Space Between the Notes” (Tracy Love), corkboard “Road Work”, and Joe Diggs painting “Valaida Snow” (from right to left)

Terri Lyne Carrington

Jazz Without Patriarchy Project

The Jazz Without Patriarchy Project is a multimedia, interdisciplinary installation, curriculum, and programming series aiming to reimagine jazz through the lens of gender equity.
DETROIT

Kassa Overall

DETROIT

DETROIT is a three-part visual EP that uses music and moving image to fuse severed roots and uncover new angles in the continuum of Black American Music.
VIA: Sensorium Ex movement workshop at The Shed

Paola Prestini

Sensorium Ex

Sensorium Ex is a new opera synthesizing artificial intelligence, disability, and the arts, pushing boundaries of what it means to have a voice, and paving the way for future artists with disabilities.n
The Healing Project

Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes

The Healing Project

The Healing Project uses music, film, and people’s stories in their own voices to unveil the true damages of American carceral institutions.
Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Meshell Ndegeocello

Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin pays homage to James Baldwin by creating a shared space for reflection, conversation, and social change.
Women of the AACM

Tomeka Reid

Women of the AACM

Women of the AACM celebrates the contributions of female practitioners through interviews, scores, photographs, and new visual art, poetry, and documentation.

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