George Lewis, Composer Portrait, at Miller Theater

From NYTimes.com:

Virtually every consideration of George Lewis, an imposing performer and scholar now serving as a professor and the vice chairman of the music department at Columbia University, will invoke the term trombonist-composer. If you’ve encountered Mr. Lewis’s playing, stressing instrumental prowess seems natural; if you haven’t, dip into an album like Anthony Braxton’s “Quartet (Dortmund) 1976,” and you will hear instantly why Mr. Lewis is revered among avant-garde jazz aficionados.

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