Musicians Launch “Dear American Orchestras” Campaign 
Pianist Kenny Barron is an exceptionally creative musician 
A Night of Jazz, Legacy, and the Unexpected at Unterfahrt 
Cultural Wrap-Up May 23, 2025 | Patti LaBelle … 
✨Cultural Wrap-Up: James Brown, Friday, May 2, 2025 
✨ Cultural Wrap-Up: Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Muddy Waters – April 29, 2025 
February 28: Sarah Vaughan 
February 25: Paul Robeson 
February 23: Marian Anderson 
February 22: Berry Gordy 
February 20: Duke Ellington 
February 19: Nina Simone: The Power of Protest Through Music 
February 18: Bessie Smith: Jazz’s First Superstar 
February 17: Thomas A. Dorsey 
February 16: Ma Rainey 
February 15: John Coltrane 
February 14: Scott Joplin 
February 12: Art Tatum 
Fatoumata Diawara: A Fusion of Tradition and Modernity 
February 11. Ella Fitzgerald 
February 8: Louis Armstrong 
February 2: Mahalia Jackson 
Sylvester: Beyond the Gimmick | 1980-1-1 
The Ntu Sound Chamber: A Spiritual Jazz Journey with WDR Big Band and Nduduzo Makhathini 
Music: WRVR-FM JAZZ RADIO | 8/1978 
Part 3. – Miles Davis and the Evolution of Jazz Fusion from Classical Roots 
Part 2. — How the Modern Jazz Quartet Blended Jazz and Classical Music to Create Something Timeless 
Part I. Blending Jazz and Classical Music: Schuller, Davis, and MJQ 
Introducing the Series: Jazz at the Crossroads of Innovation 
🎉 Happy Birthday to the Legendary James Mtume! 🎶 
February 26: Sidney Poitier 
February 25: Paul Robeson 
February 6: Lorraine Hansberry 
George C. Wolfe: Shaping American Theater with Unapologetic Truth 
James Augustus Van Der Zee — Harlem Renaissance Historian 
February 4: Augusta Savage 
February 1: Jacob Lawrence 
✨ Sneak Peek Alert! ✨— Jacob Lawrence 
Millie Jackson & Isaac Hayes
Mille Jackson is not the performer for the ears of “Ladies & Gentlemen”—proper folks didn’t go to see her or if they did, they went... Read More
“Short Plays to Nourish the Mind and Soul”
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Saturday, December 19, 3pm George Bruce Branch Library 518 West 125 St (Between Amsterdam & Broadway) Harlem Short Plays to Nourish the Mind & Soul... Read More
Georgette Seabrooke Powell – “And the Wall Yields Testimony”
“And the Wall Yields Testimony” – Georgette Seabrooke Powell (August 2, 1916 – December 27, 2011) Something pulled me to the wall. Maybe it was... Read More
Meet Jazz Guitarist Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burell, Guitarist and UCLA Jazz Professor, talks about his life and career in interview with NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies Director Dr. David Schroeder. In... Read More
Ben Williams – “Dearly Beloved — The Music of Prince”
Friday – Saturday, December 11 and 12 at 7:30pm Harlem Stage Gatehouse 150 Convent Avenue212 Free with RSVP Phone 212-281-9240 Harlem Assembling a stellar... Read More
Harlem’s own Jazz vocalist Gloria Lynne sings “It’s Magic”
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Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Through January 17, 2016 Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street (212)570-3600 Manhattan Archibald Motley (1891—1981) was one of the most important figures associated with... Read More
“Sancho: An Act of Remembrance”
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December 16-19, 2015, 7:30pm December 20, 2015, 3pm BAM Fisher Theater 321 Ashland Place 718-636 4100 Brooklyn Written and performed by Paterson Joseph (Royal Shakespeare... Read More