St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.
Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.
First Congregational Church, North Adams, 9-2.
Nov. 28 Becket Federated Church, Route 8, holiday bazaar from 9-3. Lunch, crafts, baked goods, holiday and other items. Information: Mary Peltier, Parish House, 413-623-5217.
Dec. 5
Holiday Fair at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, Lee, from 10 to 3; handcrafted items, raffles, children's shop, bake sale, cut Christmas trees and lunch from 11 to 1. Includes angel-themed goods from SERRV. Information, 413-243-1033 or www.ucc-lee.org.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - David Demsey will discuss his research on the music of John Coltrane on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 11:20 a.m. in Presser Choral Hall in the Bernhard Music Center on the Williams College campus. This free event is open to the public.
Demsey is coordinator of jazz studies; curator, Living Jazz Archives; and professor of music at William Paterson University. He is the author of "John Coltrane Plays Giant Steps" and "Chromatic Third Relationships in the Music of John Coltrane." Demsey is also an internationally known saxophonist who earned his doctorate at The Eastman School of Music and is much in demand as both a jazz and classical performer.
For jazz musicians, Coltrane occupies the place just right of God. His life spanned an explosive period of jazz in the 20th century and since his death in 1967 his influence has barely waned.
A musician of prodigious power, he progressed at interplanetary speed through a musical and intellectual jazz universe. Cutting his teeth on traditional jazz and blues, partnering with Miles Davis to usher in cool jazz, a fire breathing be-bop musician, a crooner who drew tears from a ballad, and denizen of new forms of improvisational music and free jazz, Coltrane’s career encompassed jazz and pushed its frontiers far beyond the comfort zone.
He lives on not only in his recordings, but also in his compositions, which still serve as templates of mastery. “Giant Steps” is no exaggeration: Coltrane’s iconic jazz piece was created and so definitively subjugated, that it is difficult for others to get a word in edgewise. Though his lightening technique was not unchallenged, his voice is unmistakable, putting him in a class, if not of his own, then along with Charlie Parker and Lester Young. His journey was the journey of jazz itself and lasted just 40 years. Coltrane’s story is the story not only of a jazz musician of a certain era, it is the story of a genius.
