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2015 Benefit Concert
Featuring Dianne Reeves and Joe Lovano
June 10 at 7:30 PM
THE KAYE PLAYHOUSE AT HUNTER COLLEGE
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Tickets are now available online ($35 and $55). Student and senior tickets available for $20.
Join us for a special evening featuring Five-time Grammy Award winner Dianne Reeves along with Grammy Award winning saxophonist Joe Lovano. We are honoring legendary bassist Reggie Workman with the Legends of Jazz Award and acclaimed filmmaker Albert Maysles (in memoriam) and the Maysles Institute with the Jazz and Community Leadership Award. The host for the evening will be WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton.
You can purchase online tickets HERE.
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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem today and receive discount on
tickets to our June 10, 2105 Benefit Concert featuring Dianne Reeves.
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Tuesday, May 26th
Reggie Workman
Interviewed by NJMH Artistic Director-at Large, Jonathan Batiste
Harlem Speaks
7:00-8:30pm
Location:
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
A true giant
of jazz and a paragon of education, bassist/composer/bandleader Reggie
Workman gave NJMH one it's most memorable interviews in 2006; now it's
time to catch up his great accomplishments over the past 9 years. We are
proud to be presenting Professor Workman with the NJMH Legends
of Jazz Award at our June 10th Gala this year.
A legendary
bassist, Reggie Workman is highly regarded as a bass player's bass
player. Workman's playing styles cover the range of modern music from
Bop to Post-Bop, to Futuristic, incorporating a contemporary approach
to jazz improvisation
and composition. His uncanny ability to equally understand and share
musical ideas with such diverse musicians as Art Blakey on one side and
Cecil Taylor on the other is stunning. As a result, Workman has invented
his own language of sound and expression as a performer and composer.
An ardent advocate of arts education, Workman is a
Professor and Coordinator of Curriculum at the New School for Jazz and
Contemporary Studies, an institution recognized around the world as one
of the greatest schools for jazz education:
"With a
faculty of accomplished professionals, it is safe to say that no program
is a better example of students (new to the Jazz experience) being able
to learn from the source."
Reggie Workman has always been active in music outreach
and education to the community. He co-founded the historic Collective
Black Artists (CBA), and was Music Director of the famous New Muse
Community Center (Brooklyn, NY). He is presently Co-Director of The
Montclair Academy of Dance & Laboratory of Music Studio and
Founder/Producer of the Sculptured Sounds Music Festival, an artist-driven festival of futuristic music and concepts.
Workman has performed and recorded with giants
of jazz including John Coltrane, Art Blakely, Eric Dolphy, Max Roach,
Abbey Lincoln, Cecil Taylor, Mal Waldron, Archie Shepp, Sam Rivers, Trio
3 and Great Friends as well as emerging jazz legends such Jason Moran.
He established himself as a bandleader and composer in the 70's when he
first presented his stellar group, Top Shelf. Since then, Workman has
continued developing new music arts curriculums and workshops and
presenting various Reggie Workman ensembles under the umbrella of his
production company, Sculptured Sounds, in the United States and
internationally.
Join the Facebook event here.
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From Our Friends at Madiba Harlem Studios
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Current Exhibit
Bebo Valdés: Giant of Cuban Music
Pianist,
arranger, bandleader, and composer Bebo Valdés had two splendid careers
separated by more than thirty years of obscurity.
Mambo,
filin, batanga, descarga - he was a great innovator in Cuba music. For
ten years he was music director of the famed Tropicana orchestra. His
big band backed Cuba's greatest stars. He was the pianist on Nat "King"
Cole's famed Havana recordings.
Then
everything changed. He left Cuba in 1960 and settled in Sweden. While
his music was largely forgotten by the world, his son Chucho Valdés
became a dominant musical figure in post-revolutionary Cuba, and one of the world's great pianists.
Then,
beginning in 1994, Bebo Valdés began a dramatic career resurgence via a
brilliant series of concerts, recordings, and movies that brought his
knowledge, skills, and inimitable style into the twenty-first century,
making him a bigger star than every before and culminating in an
electrifying series of collaborations with Chucho. We'll tell the story
and play the music....
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All programs are free unless noted otherwise.
These programs
are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council,
and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor
Andrew Cuomo and the New York State.
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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Visitors Center is open to the
public and features our extensive library of all sorts of media, plus
brand new collections of photographs, and exhibits. Please come by and
see us from Monday to Friday from 10AM to 4PM. We look forward to seeing you! |
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The Jazz Museum in Harlem is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. 
All donations are fully tax deductible.
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