Juilliard musician BryanCarterJazz’s queer music night honors jazz’s legacy.
In 2019, after finding there were no Pride events at any prominent New York City jazz venues, Juilliard-trained musiciantook matters into his own hands. With help from friends, what started as a simple night of jazz and LGBTQ+ celebration became the showstoppingNow headed to Austin on Aug. 11, Jazz at Pride continues what started just two years ago with even more orchestral flair and style. On the program will be not just spins on traditional jazz greats like.
In the wake of Jazz at Pride, Carter says he’s found many of the more toxic attitudes he first encountered have begun to get better. “I think that it's steadily improving, but there's still a lot of work to do,” he says and adds that “It's really just making people aware of the consequences of their words and their actions. Once you do that, [the homophobia] just kind of naturally dissipates in a way, you know. It gets a little bit better.
This steady improvement not only includes a reduction in homophobic language, but also a growing community of openly queer musicians like Carter himself nurtured by safe spaces like Jazz at Pride. “For me creating a safe space is creating a space where everyone feels free to be themselves,” he says. “The tagline of our show is: Jazz is freedom. Pride is freedom.” To Carter, any lack of authenticity can immediately be noticed with an improvisational and conversational style like jazz.
Rather than hide those parts of himself because of conflict, Carter takes the same approach he would if a fellow bandmate were playing a tune he didn’t agree with: continue to play against the other musician until they find a point of resolution in the dissonance. Finding the right notes of disruption is, in Carter’s experience, the very nature of queerness and jazz itself. With Jazz at Pride’s performances and nonprofit work, he seeks to keep jazz’s core of freedom.
Jazz at Pride is on Thu., Aug. 11, at 7pm at Skybox on 6th, and is the official kick-off event for Austin Pride 2022. Find tickets and more info at jazzatpride.ticketbud.com.has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press.
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