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Sarah Dash (Legendary Original & Founding Member of Labelle) Premieres A TRIBUTE TO ARETHA FRANKLIN: THE QUEEN OF SOUL in November

10/15/2018

Sarah Dash (Legendary Original & Founding Member of Labelle) Premieres
A TRIBUTE TO ARETHA FRANKLIN:
THE QUEEN OF SOUL
in three cities in November, including City Winery in New York on November 6

New York, NY (October 15, 2018) – Sarah Dash, who made musical magic with Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles and Labelle, will premiere her new show, A Tribute to Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul, in three cities this November. This special concert celebration will feature Sarah Dash singing all the great Aretha Franklin classics (including Respect, Chain of Fools, Freeway of Love, Ain't No Way, Jump to It), and telling inside stories of her friendship with The Queen. Bernard Purdy, who played in Ms. Franklin's band through the years, will be the musical director for these performances.

Blessing of the Animals at New Journey Church, October 7, 3:30 pm

10/5/2018

New Journey Church Hosts Blessing of the Animals Service on Sunday, October 7, 3:30 pm

October 4, 2018 – In the spirit of the Feast of St. Francis, celebrated around the world on October 4, New Journey Church of Brooklyn, 480 Bainbridge Street between Howard and Saratoga, will hold its first Blessing of the Animals service on Sunday, October 7, at 3:30 pm. All animals and their people are welcome, and pets should be brought to church on leashes or in carriers.

St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is the patron saint of animals and environment. He cared for the poor and sick, preached to animals and praised all creatures as brothers and sisters under God. Today, furry friends are as much a part of families as the humans who care for them, and churches around the world celebrate St. Francis with animal blessings.

Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies Celebrates GLORY: A Life Among Legends, October 15, 6:00 pm

10/4/2018

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Celebrates
GLORY: A Life Among Legends by Dr. Glory Van Scott with a Special Program and Book Party
Monday, October 15, 6:00 pm
in the East Gallery, Buell Hall, Maison Française
Columbia University Main Campus
West 116th & Broadway, Manhattan

Free and Open to the Public

Dr. Van Scott’s Memoir Honors Artistic Colleagues, Explores Integrity,
Examines Sexism and Racism in the Arts,
and Encourages the New Generation of Artists

NEW YORK, NY, October 3, 2018 – The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University celebrates GLORY: A Life Among Legends, the new memoir by renowned dancer, educator, producer and author Dr. Glory Van Scott with a special program and book party on Monday, October 15, 6:00 pm. The celebration will be held in the East Gallery of Buell Hall, Maison Française, on the Columbia University Main Campus, 116th & Broadway in New York City.

The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Please e-mail columbiajazzstudies@gmail.com to secure seats.

The legendary ANDY BEY Sun Sept 30 @ Blue Note, NY Produced By Jill Newman Productions One Night only!

9/25/2018

The Legendary
ANDY BEY
Produced By Jill Newman Productions
Sunday September 30, 2018
Blue Note Jazz Club, NYC

Showtimes: 8:00PM & 1030pm
Doors Open at 6:00PM

After a twenty two year absence from recording Andy Bey returned with four albums that have become a permanent part of the musical landscape. The 2005 Grammy Nominated American Song is a delicious celebration of one of America's great gifts to the music world: The American Songbook. On his new release Ain't Necessarily So Bey brings the energy of live performance to compositions by the gods of American Songwriting. Insiders have always known about Andy Bey. Given his limited output of studio recordings, live performances were the source of Bey's reputation as singer. Aretha Franklin reminisces about the nights when Andy and The Bey Sisters worked the Village in New York: "Soon as I finished my gig I'd run over to hear them. Andy never got the recognition he deserved . . . jazz originals . . . brilliant and precious." Like the playground legend who never made it to the NBA, Andy Bey was almost consigned to the fading murmurs of those who caught him in Paris in '59, or Birdland in the mid '60s. There are few left who remember when Lena, Nina and Carmen crowded into Harlem's Shalimar to hear Bey light it up. That tantalizing footage of Andy Bey and his sisters delighting a crowd of Parisian partygoers in the Chet Baker documentary Let's Get Lost, gives us a clue of the years of brilliance that were never committed to vinyl. One can only imagine what we've missed. But, we have been blessed with four records that have changed how we think of Jazz vocals. Decades intervened between those after hours below the radar sessions and the 1996 recordings presented on Ain't Necessarily So. But the vivid performances haven't dimmed. Like so many before him, British vocalist Jamie Cullum described what it's like to fall under Bey's spell: "Andy Bey was at Ronnie Scott's and I saw him six nights in a row. I got into a huge amount of debt going to see Andy Bey. What I love about him is that he creates an atmosphere. As soon as he opens his mouth, you're transported to another place."

World-renowned Pianist and NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston Dies at 92

9/1/2018

World-renowned Pianist and NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston Dies at 92

April 6, 1926 – September 1, 2018

Photo credit: Chester Higgins

NEW YORK, NY, September 1, 2018 – Randy Weston, NEA Jazz Master, Doris Duke Impact Award recipient, United States Artist Fellow and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow has died. The legendary pianist transitioned peacefully at his home today, announced his wife and business partner Fatoumata Weston. He was 92.

Weston has been laying down his distinctive rhythms since his first CD, Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, in 1954 right up to The African Nubian Suite, released in 2016, and Sound in 2017. Throughout his prolific 65-year recording career, Weston drew connections between the jazz and blues that surrounded him while growing up in Brooklyn and the music of Africa, his ancestral homeland.

Newport Festivals Foundation Gala Is A Huge Success

8/28/2018

Newport Festivals Foundation 8th Annual Gala
Is A Huge Success

Funds Support the Foundation’s
Music Education Initiatives and Help to Continue the Legacy of Newport Jazz & Folk Festival

Photos by: Brian Lima

NEWPORT, RI, August 27, 2018 – More than 360 music fans from around the world turned out to celebrate the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals at Newport Festivals Foundation’s Eighth Annual Gala held at The Elms on Saturday, August 4. The dinner event, which raised more than $660,000, included performances by pianist Jon Batiste, vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and a special duo by guitarist Pat Metheny and Jazz Festival Artistic Director and bassist Christian McBride.

“Thanks to a committed board of directors who love and respect the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals as much as I do, I am confident that my legacy will live on,” said George Wein, co-founder of the festivals and Chairman of the Board of Newport Festivals Foundation, which Wein established as a non-profit in 2010. “Under the direction of Executive Producer Jay Sweet and Jazz Artistic Director Christian McBride, our dedicated team puts together two festivals that remain at the forefront of live music events.”

Still Time to Catch Jazz in the Valley, Sunday at Waryas Park in Poughkeepsie

8/15/2018

Eddie Henderson, Javon Jackson, Mimi Jones, Rene Marie and Rachiim Ausar-Sahu Headline the 18th Annual Jazz in the Valley
Sunday, August 19, in
Poughkeepsie’s Waryas Park

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, August 13, 2018 – TRANSART & Cultural Services, Inc. a West Park, NY-based, non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting awareness of the art, history and popular culture of people of African descent, presents Jazz in the Valley (JITV) on Sunday, August 19, 2018, from noon to 6:00 pm (gates open at 11:00 am). JITV, now in its 18th year, brings an eclectic array of world-class jazz musicians, performing on two stages to bucolic, nine-acre Waryas Park, nestled in downtown Poughkeepsie, in New York’s historic Hudson River Valley, just 90 miles north of New York City.

“TRANSART takes great pride in bringing some of the world’s greatest jazz artists to perform in the beautiful Hudson Valley,” says Greer Smith, festival producer and president of TRANSART. “Waryas Park is an excellent place to enjoy jazz with family and friends, and we’re pleased to present the 2018 edition of JITV, which features five ensembles that play the full inventions and dimensions of jazz.”

Singers Make Their Mark At Newport Jazz Festival

7/18/2018

Singers Make Their Mark At Newport Jazz Festival

Gregory Porter, José James, Jazzmeia Horn, Charenée Wade, Andra Day, Alicia Olatuja Tell Stories Through Song August 3 - 5

Newport, RI , July 17, 2018 – For the past six decades, the Newport Jazz Festival has been the premier showcase for jazz’s most supremely loved vocalists, from Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, to Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. And, this year’s edition of the festival continues in that hallowed tradition.

Whether he’s channeling the message music of Gil Scott-Heron or Joe Williams’ upsouth urbanity, the two-time, Grammy Award-winning Gregory Porter’s emergence on the scene in the last decade confirms that he is one of the coolest and most compelling vocalists of his generation. In a Marvin Gaye minute, this California-born crooner can deliver a lyric that spans from the profound question “What’s Goin’ On” to the provocative proclamation “Let’s Get it On.” And, when Porter takes to the Fort Adams stage on Sunday, August 5, he’ll give the audience more of that sweet sound heard on his 2017 Nat King Cole tribute CD, sonically shaped by Porter’s silken, syncopated soul and vivid vocals.

George Clinton Brings the Funk to Newport

7/11/2018

George Clinton Brings the Funk to
Newport Jazz Festival
on Sunday, August 5

Newport, RI, July 11 – On Sunday, August 5, a Mothership commander will land on the Fort Adams stage when the 76-year old vocalist, songwriter, producer, bandleader, icon and Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame Inductee George Clinton and his supergroup, the Grammy Award winning Parliament Funkadelic, perform for the first time at the Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Investment Managers. In support of his latest CD, Medicaid Fraud Dogg, and part of a landmark, worldwide tour that will end with his retirement from touring in 2019, Clinton is sure to bring the funk and more to Narragansett Bay.

Sophisticated Ladies Take the Stage at Newport Jazz Festival

7/5/2018

Sophisticated Ladies Take the Stage at
2018 Newport Jazz Festival

Newport, RI July 5, 2018 – For six decades, the Newport Jazz Festival has showcased the music of the most important female musicians in the art form – from Mary Lou Williams and Toshiko Akiyoshi, to Carla Bley and the late Geri Allen. And this edition of the festival offers a powerful potpourri of sophisticated ladies, who, while maintaining the base from where the jazz tradition comes, take the music into new and complex directions.

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Sarah Dash (Legendary Original & Founding Member of Labelle) PremieresA TRIBUTE TO ARETHA FRANKLIN: ​THE QUEEN OF SOULin three cities in November, including City Winery in New York on November 6

New Journey Church Hosts Blessing of the Animals Service on Sunday, October 7, 3:30 pm​

World-renowned Pianist and NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston Dies at 92 April 6, 1926 – September 1, 2018​

Newport Festivals Foundation 8th Annual GalaIs A Huge Success Funds Support the Foundation’sMusic Education Initiatives and Help to Continue the Legacy of Newport Jazz & Folk Festival​

Eddie Henderson, Javon Jackson, Mimi Jones, Rene Marie and Rachiim Ausar-Sahu Headline the 18th Annual Jazz in the Valley Sunday, August 19, in​Poughkeepsie’s Waryas Park​

Singers Make Their Mark At Newport Jazz Festival Gregory Porter, José James, Jazzmeia Horn, Charenée Wade, Andra Day, Alicia Olatuja Tell Stories Through Song August 3 - 5

George Clinton Brings the Funk to ​Newport Jazz Festival on Sunday, August 5

Sophisticated Ladies Take the Stage at ​2018 Newport Jazz Festival

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