BAM R&B Festival Summer Concert 1 min read Legendary entertainer Dee Dee Bridgewater has won a great many things, among them: three Grammy Awards for her work as a jazz vocalist, a Tony... Read More
Month: July 2016
BAM R&B Festival Summer Concert 1 min read
Playwright Alyson Mead’s “The Quality of Mercy” On July 5th, I was watching the news and heard that Alton Sterling had been shot by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Within a... Read More
BAM R&B Festival Summer Concert “Ladies Sing the Blues” Jazz diva Catherine Russell, a staple at Jazz at Lincoln Center, is joined by vocalists Brianna Thomas and Charenee Wade to pay impassioned tribute to the great female blues singers of the 1920s: Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Ethel Waters. Backed by a seven-piece band, led by pianist Mark Shane, the trio delves into the catalog of 1920s and 30s legends.... Read More
“The Purge” movie trilogy 2 min read Though The Purge series is fictional, there is sufficient existential violence today, that, in the future it may be the norm.... Read More
Theater for the New City’s “The Elephant Pen” The Elephant Pen, let me tell you about is a bone-chilling psychological thriller! I don’t know that it chilled my bones, but it certainly kept me on... Read More
BAM Festival Summer Concert “The Hallelujah Train” Called “the most imaginatively supple drummer in jazz” (The New York Times), drummer Brian Blade (Wayne Shorter, Joni Mitchell), began playing at Shreveport’s Zion Baptist... Read More
The Mackey Twins initiate “virgin” art collectors “When it comes to keeping records of the thousands of narratives within the African Diaspora, Art has a special way of capturing the many stories,... Read More
BAM R&B Festival Summer Concert – King Sunny Ade King Sunny Ade is the undisputed king of juju, the high-energy, highly danceable hybrid of Western pop and traditional African music with roots in the... Read More