Join Dr. Colleen Clark, newly appointed assistant professor of jazz studies at USC, as she presents her newest band, The Southern Pines, featuring Ranky Tanky’s Quiana Parler. With some of the Southeast’s finest jazz musicians, Clark debuts this brand-new collaboration with inspiration from life in South Carolina and work from Our Own Work Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists from the Johnson Collection.

Program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ADGsqLK0LewrhpCx2SutIhIBcAdQwdC4/view?usp=sharing The group CC and The Adelitas is a jazz sextet comprised of NYC and LA’s top musicians, that happen to be female. Representing the modern-day “Adelita” these musicians have been hand-picked by “CC” as a staunch reflection of the modern-day jazz soldier. “CC and the Adelitas” represents the intersectionality between identity, race, gender and culture. The Adelitas were the women solderaderas of the Mexican Revolution, which helped forge “Adelita” into an icon in Mexican culture, representing the strength and fortitude of women into the modern-day. This project and the experience that it creates incorporates the history of the Adelitas and Mexican songwriters and/or singers and sets the music in the jazz idiom. The combination of history, language, culture and music highlights the importance of our acknowledgment and welcoming of diversity and inclusion. By presenting the songs in Spanish, “CC and The Adelitas” also welcome a broader audience to the music, reinsuring our music community that jazz can be a conduit of not only expression but an expression of identity.

USC Jazz Faculty & Michael Dease Guest Artist Program: