The great jazz pianist Gerri Allen and the acclaimed video artist Carrie Mae Weems are teaming up for a special world premiere commission at Celebrate Brooklyn on Saturday, June 16. Gates open at 7PM.

The work is called, Slow Fade to Black and it combines Weems’ projections with Allen’s music featuring Allen’s new trio with fellow jazz giants Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington and many more musicians.

Weems is set to have a  three-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in the fall of 2013, explores issues of gender, race, and identity in her work.

On Saturday night, watch as live performance and video comingle in ways hat sound intriguing.