Musicians Launch “Dear American Orchestras” Campaign 
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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 
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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 
Jumpin Jive 
BAMcinématek Film series FilmAfrica
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Peter Jay Sharp Building 321 Ashland Place Brooklyn (718)636-4100 or info@bam.org ppp Shield and Spear Friday, May 22, 2015, 7:00pm Documentarian Ringbom (The Russian Winter) captures the changing... Read More
Lower Eastside Festival of the Arts
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May 22, 23 & 24, 2015 Friday, Saturday and Sunday Theater for the New City 155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets) Manhattan A Multi-Cultural... Read More
Jump N Funk
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Saturday, May 23, 2015, 10pm BAMcafé Peter Jay Sharp Building 321 Ashland Place Brooklyn Jump N Funk is North America’s original Afrobeat party, started by... Read More
The Leadership of Ancestor Patrice Lumumba
Sunday, May 24, 2015 3:00pm Dr. John Henrik Clarke House 286 Convent Avenue Harlem Professor Yaa-Lengi Ngemi, Educator, Author, Activist and Scholar Maurice Carney, Executive Director Friends... Read More
The Brooklyn Poetry Slam
May 21, 2015, 7:00pm-9:00pm Stoop at BRIC House 647 Fulton Street (Enter on Rockwell Place) Brooklyn An intergenerational showcase where Brooklyn-based poets investigate art work... Read More
Fathers and Sons
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May 7, 2015—May 24, 2015 Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30pm Saturday at 3:00pm and 7:30pm Sunday at 3:00pm The Negro Ensemble Company Davenport Theatre... Read More
BB King Rest in Peace
Better Not Look Down, written by Will Jennings & Joe Sample, can be found also on the The Crusaders’ Royal Jam album. (Joe Sample‘s distinguishable piano style is... Read More