Filmmaker in person! Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Duke Ellington Fellowship Program at Yale. This event will include two Yale Film Archive-preserved episodes of the local news program What's Happening, featuring footage from the legendary 1972 concert at Woolsey Hall with Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Jo Jones, Willie Ruff, and more. The night will also include the preservation premiere of Ruff’s 1973 film Tony Williams in Africa, a short that follows American jazz drummer Tony Williams to Senegal. This film also features footage of Williams, Ruff, and pianist Dwike Mitchell sharing film and music with New Haven school children. Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Willie Ruff. Presented in collaboration with the Gilmore Music Library, with support from the Richard Warren Jr. (B.A. 1959) Fund for the Preservation and Promotion of Music.
Free and open to the public. All attendees must be asymptomatic and fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including boosters when eligible) and should be prepared to show proof of vaccination. Yale-approved masks are required at all times.
This screening is part of a year-long event, “Celebrating Willie Ruff and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ellington at Yale Series,” which will continue in the spring with a major concert on Sunday, April 2, 2023.
Time/Date:
7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive is an ongoing series of classic and contemporary films in 35mm curated by the Yale Film Archive, presented with support from Paul L. Joskow ’70 M.Phil., ’72 Ph.D.