CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY WITH JAZZMOBILE AND
WINARD HARPER, Music Director, WYCLIFFE GORDON, LOUIS HAYES,
BRIANNA THOMAS, BOBBY SANABRIA, ANTOINETTE MONTAGUE AND 30+ JAZZ GREATS
AT JAZZMOBILE’S KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING BENEFIT CONCERT at
The Sanctuary | First Corinthian Baptist Church
Honoring “Mr. Jazzmobile” JOHNNIE GARRY With the 2018 JAZZY AWARD posthumously
AT THIS ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE!
April 30, 2018 | 6:30 PM
HARLEM, NY, April 9, 2018 – Jazzmobile’s one night only benefit concert “Keep The Music Playing” is back with 36 stellar Jazz musicians who are donating their performance to support Jazzmobile and its concerts and education programs. Come prepared for a swinging night of music that will have jazz fans dancing in the aisles of The Sanctuary of First Corinthian Baptist Church, 1912 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. in Harlem, on Monday, April 30, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm.
The music will begin with the Saturday Jazz Workshop | Master Class High School Student Big Band (all attend the Celia Cruz Bronx High School for Music). The second set will open with the presentation of the Jazzmobile Jazzy Award to the late Johnnie Garry who spent over 60 years in the jazz industry as a stage hand, stage manager (Café Society), club manager (Birdland), and artist manager (Ms. Sarah Vaughan). For 35 of those years, he was Jazzmobile’s Production Coordinator and historian.
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