The Vermont Humanities Council season of lectures at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. in BRattleboro, begins Wednesday, October 5 at 7 pm with Reuben Jackson presenting The Electric Period of Miles Davis. Davis once observed "I have to change. It's like a curse." The ever-changing music that he recorded from 1969 to 1975 angered and bewildered many critics and fans, who accused the trumpeter of "selling out." Jazz archivist and poet Reuben Jackson shares how recordings from Davis' "Electric Period"—including 1974's Get Up With It—prove otherwise.

Reuben Jackson is the Archivist with the University of The District of Columbia's Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives. For 20 years he was archivist and curator with the Smithsonian Institution's Duke Ellington Collection. He was also host of Vermont Public Radio's Friday Night Jazz from 2012 until 2018. His music reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Jazziz, Jazz Times, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He is also the author of two books of poetry- 1990's fingering the keys and 2019's Scattered Clouds When not serving as co-host of WPFW's The Sound Of Surprise, Reuben is working on a third book, tentatively entitled Playing The French Horn.

Funded by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library, The schedule for the full season is available at: https://www.vermonthumanities.org/programs/attend/first-wednesdays/library-schedules/first-w[...]ro/. The program is free of charge and open to the public. The venue is accessible to people in wheelchairs. For more information visit www.brookslibraryvt.org or call 802-254-5290

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