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Jazzmobile & 2015 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival

4/14/2015

 
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JAZZMOBILE CONTINUES CELEBRATING ITS 
50th ANNIVERSARY
at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4 – 9
Presented by the Apollo Theater, 

Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile 

This year the Festival will also pay tribute to the iconic Jazzmobile as a Shrine


Media Contact:
Carolyn McClair / CMPR 
(917) 686-0854 / [email protected]
 
 “Harlem is a dream-place where so much impor­tant cul­tural his­tory has been enacted that as we explore the power of Harlem’s past we also feel its pres­ence. Take the M60-bus along 125th, or emerge from the A-train at 125th or 145th or from the 2 or 3 train at 125th or 135th—you enter a city-within-a-city that is puls­ing with vivid, lived expe­ri­ences. Behind these Harlem doors, some of the best music on the planet is being played.” Robert G. O’Meally, Columbia University Zora Neale Hurston Professor and Founder of Columbia University Jazz Studies
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Jimmy Heath
HARLEM, USA, April 14, 2015 – Jazzmobile continues its 50th anniversary celebration May 4 – 9 at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, a week-long, multi-venue partnership with the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, in collaboration with Colum­bia Uni­versity. The festival revives the spirits and sounds of Harlem’s historic jazz venues with swinging live performances, jam sessions, informative panel discussions, dance parties and more.   

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Jazzmobile, Inc. Celebrates 2014 Harlem Shrines Jazz Festival

4/25/2014

 

Jazzmobile, Inc. Celebrates 
2014 Harlem Shrines Jazz Festival 
with a Series of Concerts Saluting Minton’s Playhouse, Savoy Ballroom and the King of the Lindy Hop, Frankie Manning

Jazzmobile Continues Annual Partnership with Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Columbia University to Bring Emerging and Established Artists to Venues All Over Harlem


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Harlem, NY, April 24, 2014 – Jazzmobile, the oldest, not-for-profit jazz arts and education organization famous for its iconic New Orleans-inspired bandstand/floats which bring live jazz to generations of people throughout New York City and beyond, is presenting some of today’s hottest jazz artists at the fourth annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival (HJSF), May 4 – 10, with a series of swinging events at the newly-renovated Minton’s, Ginny’s Supper Club, The Riverside Theatre and MIST Harlem. 

Jazzmobile’s HJSF events include a salute to the Savoy Ballroom with a tribute  to Lindy Hop dancer extraordinaire Frankie Manning featuring The Harlem Renaissance Orchestra plus lecture/dance demonstrations with the Cecil Bridgewater Big Band; a discussion on Charlie Parker with authors Stanley Crouch and Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin; the Jazzmobile Vocal Competition Kick-Off; and Minton’s Playhouse: New Legends on the Bandstand, honoring the legendary birthplace of bebop with alto saxophonists Antonio Hart and T.K. Blue, pianist Christian Sands, singer Charenee Wade and a live recording session featuring drummer T.S. Monk and his Sextet. 



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Apollo, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Announce Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest Schedule

2/19/2014

 
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The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile 
Present Fourth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4 – 10

Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival
The Prestige of the Past … the Pulse of the Present


HARLEM, USA, February 19, 2014 – When the Harlem Renaissance was in vogue at the dawn of the 20th Century, the jazz clubs around Jungle Alley,  between Lenox and Seventh Avenue – The Savoy Ballroom, Small’s Paradise, Minton’s Playhouse, Clark Monroe’s Uptown House, The Ubangi Club, Park Palace, Connie’s Inn, and others – were the place to be.  These immortal nightclubs, concert halls, cabarets, speakeasies and ballrooms, will be channeled and showcased May 4 – 10 at the Fourth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival. A week-long, multi-venue partnership with the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, in collaboration with Columbia University, the festival revives the spirits and sounds of Harlem’s historic jazz venues with swinging live performances, jam sessions, informative panel discussions, dance parties, films and more. 

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Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest: Cab Calloway Big Band at Alhambra Ballroom

4/26/2013

 

Jazzmobile, Inc. Presents Alhambra Revived 
Featuring the Cab Calloway Orchestra 

at The Alhambra Ballroom
May 9, 8:00 pm 

at the Third Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival

Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Takes over Uptown May 6 - 11

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Harlem, USA – The third annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, a multi-venue partnership between The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, Inc., resurrects the spirits and sounds of Harlem’s historic jazz venues with swinging live performances May 6 – 11. On Thursday, May 9, Jazzmobile, Inc. revives the Renaissance-era vibe of the  legendary Alhambra Ballroom (2116 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., www.alhambraballroom.net), with a day-long program, Alhambra Revived, highlighted by the “hi-dee-hi-dee-hi-dee-ho” harmonies of the Cab Calloway Orchestra, under the direction of his grandson, Calloway Brooks, at 8:00 pm. 

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Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest:  Legends on the Bandstand w/Heath/Hart/Mance/Sands

4/25/2013

 
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Jazzmobile, Inc. Presents 
Minton’s Playhouse: Legends on the Bandstand 
at Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 6 and 8

Third Annual Festival, Presented by The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, Inc., Celebrates Historic Harlem Venues 

May 6 – 11, 2013 

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Jimmy Heath
Harlem, USA – Jazz was born in New Orleans, but it grew up in Harlem in legendary venues like Small’s Paradise, The Savoy Ballroom, The Alhambra Ballroom, Clark Monroe’s Uptown House, the Cotton Club, The Baby Grand and Minton’s Playhouse. These venues featured the iconic big bands of the Negro Renaissance of the 1920’s, the pioneering birth of bebop in the thirties and forties, the Caribbean cadences of Afro-Cubop and salsa from the fifties, sixties and seventies. Regardless of its ever-changing moods and grooves, the music provided the syncopated soundtrack for the black, brown and beige night people of this city within a city. 


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UPDATED Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Calendar, May 6 - 11

4/24/2013

 
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2013 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Calendar
Updated as of April 23, 2013

All Tickets Start at $10, unless otherwise noted

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Marc Cary
Renewing their partnership for the third year, the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, Inc., in collaboration with Columbia University, have joined forces to present the Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival from May 6 – 11, 2013. These cultural organizations will present a series of concerts and events to celebrate the rich legacy of jazz in the uptown community while bringing both established and emerging artists to famed Harlem venues. This year, the festival will pay tribute to The Alhambra Ballroom, the Apollo Theater, The Baby Grand, Minton’s Playhouse, Clark Monroe’s Uptown House, Showman’s Jazz Club, the Sugar Cane Club and the Cotton Club. In addition to concerts at jazz shrines throughout Harlem, festival events will take place at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Cowin Auditorium at Teacher’s College and Ginny’s Supper Club. 

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Apollo, HarlemStage & Jazzmobile Announce 3rd Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest May 6-11

4/1/2013

 
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The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Reunite in Partnership to Present 
Third Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival
May 6 – 11, 2013

Partners Celebrate Legacy of Jazz in Harlem Featuring
Concerts by Emerging and Established Artists,
Panel Discussions, Films and More

Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival
The Prestige of the Past … the Pulse of the Present


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NEW YORK, NY, April 2, 2013 – Renewing their partnership for the third year, the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, Inc., in collaboration with Columbia University, will join forces to present the Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival from May 6 – 11, 2013.  The three cultural organizations will present a series of concerts and events to celebrate the rich legacy of jazz in the uptown community while bringing both established and emerging artists to famed Harlem venues. This year, the festival will pay tribute to The Alhambra Ballroom, the Apollo Theater, The Baby Grand, Minton’s Playhouse, Clark Monroe’s Uptown House, Showman’s Jazz Club, the Sugar Cane Club and the Cotton Club. In addition to concerts at jazz shrines throughout Harlem, festival events will take place at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Cowin Auditorium at Teacher’s College and Ginny’s Supper Club.

Designed to draw a diverse audience of neighborhood residents, New Yorkers and tourists, events are free or $10 and up.  Concerts are scheduled to allow people the option of attending several events each day, continuing the tradition of non-stop jazz throughout Harlem. 



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