Posts Tagged Jazz
Kindred Cool at MoCADA
December 29, 2009 by Administrator
This exhibition was in 2008 In Summer 2008, the Museum of Contemporary African Disaporan Arts (MoCADA) welcomes Kindred Cool: Portraits inspired by the jazz friendship of Romare Bearden, Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. The exhibition is produced byBrooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn (Calabar Magazine’s cultural writer) in conjunction with Up South, Inc., Kindred Cool highlights [...]
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Tags: Albert Murray, Brian Jackson; trombonist, Clarence Atkins Fellowship from the Jazz Journalist Association, Dick Griffin; jazz-poet Louis Reyes Rivera; photographer, DJ Spooky; jazz pianist, Ellis Marsalis; hip hop artist, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Gerald Cyrus; WBGO jazz radio personality, Inc, Jazz, Ladybug Mecca; pianist, Ralph Ellison, Rhonda Ross; Columbia University jazz studies professor, Romare Bearden, Sheila Anderson; producer, Up South, Vijay Iyer; percussionist, Will Calhoun; singer and actress
Jazz in Brooklyn
December 26, 2009 by Administrator
by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Brooklyn’s jazz scene shares a long history in the overall movement of jazz in New York City. It wasn’t only Harlem and Midtown’s 52 Street that championed jazz for the Big Apple — add Bedford-Stuyvesant to that list. Not only did Brooklyn produce jazz luminaries such as Max Roach and Lean [...]
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Tags: Ahmed Abdullah, Art Blakey, Bob Myers, Brooklyn, Brooklyn clubs, Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Hugh Masekela, Jazz, Jazz @ 966, jazz luminaries, jazz tour, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Lean Horne, Max Roach, Night of the Cookers, Sista’s Place, Thelonius Monk