The Modern Jazz Quartet
Video: ; "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise"/ "Jasmine Tree"/ "Django" The elegant and sophisticate Modern Jazz Quartet. I wish I could be more creative in describing the MJQ, but I think once you watch this video and you've listened to the quartet's classical mastery .... Read More
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Roots of South African Jazz
Tuesday, August 25, 7:00-8:30 pm Jazz at Lincoln Center 3 Columbus Circle, 5th floor of the Time Warner Building) Manhattan Host: Seton Hawkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJxZmgnpkA... Read More
Jazz vocalist Shirley Horn
How Insensitive (written by Antônio Carlos Jobim) is performed longingly — but Shirley Horn‘s piano craftsmenship and accompanying grunting gives power to this haunting tune.... Read More
Dorothy Donegan at the White House
I remember seeing Dorothy Donegan several times performing a number of times (downtown NYC), in the 1990s — she was an aging super talented jazz... Read More
Benny Goodman Listening Party
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Tuesday, August 18, 7:00-8:30 pm Jazz at Lincoln Center 3 Columbus Circle, 5th floor of the Time Warner Building) Manhattan Host: Loren Schoenberg... Read More
Houston Pearson at Jazzmobile’s Grant’s Tomb
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 7pm Riverside Drive to 122nd St. Harlem... Read More
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
In the words of Miles Davis, “You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker.” Almost sixty years after his... Read More
Allan Harris
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Friday, August 14, 7pm Marcus Garvey Park 122nd St. & Mt. Morris Park, Amphitheater Harlem Allan Harris Vocals & Guitar with Pascal Le Boeuf, Piano... Read More