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Duo performs program of Jewish and
African American liturgical music.

SUZANNE CHESSLER

Special to the Jewish News

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positions along with arrangements of
classic jazz favorites.
They started working on liturgical
pieces after a cantor asked Chevan to
do a program of Jewish and African-
American music. The two, who devel-
oped a personal friendship, were able
to meld secular pieces from both cul-
tures into the band the Afro-Semitic
Experience.
"I've learned to love my Jewishness
even more through the conversations
our duo has brought about," says
Chevan, who develops individual con-
cert programs as he responds to the
mood of each audience.
"I've also been to many wonderful
jazz cities as we entertain at new ven-
ues." ❑

he universal language of
jazz, expressed by a Jewish
American bassist and an
African-American pianist in
performance together, soon will open
dialogue in Detroit.
"Avadim Hayinu," Hebrew for
"Once We Were Slaves," is the pro-
gram
ram of liturgical
music from both
b
cultures set to jazz by the David
Chevan-Warren Byrd Duo. Besides a
public concert, the two will appear at
a lecture-recital for college students
and a performance workshop for high-
school students.
The instrumentalists, who have
made recordings
and appeared on
public television,
are visiting the area
for the first time
under the sponsor-
ship of the Cohn-
Haddow Center for
Judaic Studies at
Wayne State
University.
Their free concert
will begin 3 p.m.
Sunday, March 17,
at the Main Branch
of the Detroit
Public Library. The Warren Byrd and David Chevan: Expressing
duo delivers a lec-
themselves through the universal language of jazz. -
ture-recital for the
WSU School of
Music and a work-
shop at Cass Technical High School
on Monday, March 18.
The David Chevan-Warren Byrd
"If you study the traditional
Duo will appear at three free pro-
melodies from both cultures, you find
grams. Their public concert
similar scales and melodic phrases,"
begins 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17,
says Chevan, 42, a professor of music
in the Friends Auditorium of the
at Southern Connecticut State
Detroit Public Library, 5201
University and member of a number
Woodward Avenue. Tickets are
of bands and ensembles.
required and may be obtained by
The range of their selections can go
calling (313) 577-2679. The duo's
from "Eliyahu HaNavi," a song from
college lecture-recital begins at
the Havdalah service, to "If I Can
10:40 a.m. Monday, March 18, at
Help Somebody," a gospel standard.
the WSU School of Music, (313)
Chevan, raised in a Conservative
577-1783; and their workshop
home where he was encouraged to
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takes place 2 p.m. the same day at
participate in Shabbat services, met
Cass Technical High School;
Byrd at a jazz club in 1994 and invit-
(313) 596-3900, Ext. 128.
ed the pianist to join Bassology, a
band featuring Chevan's original com-
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