Friday Freshen Up with Wordsmith
Friday, August 28, 2015, 6:00pm–7:00pm West Harlem Piers Park West 125 Street Manhattan Hip Hop artist and songwriter, Wordsmith has outgrown and overcome the negative... Read More
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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
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
Ebony Hillbillies (Bluegrass/Appalachian)
August 23, 2015, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, inside the Park at 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues As one of the... 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
Aretha Franklin at the White House
Aretha takes the White House to the “Old Fashioned” Baptist Church! The air conditioning is broken, Aretha falls to her knees and couldn’t get up... Read More