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| The National Jazz Museum in Harlem May Events It's another month of exciting programming here at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, in addition to the current exhibit Ralph Ellison: A Man and His Records. Join us for a series of fascinating evenings looking into some of the most legendary jazz artists being inducted into Jazz At Lincoln Center's Hall of Fame next month. We'll have special guests each week to host. In addition, author Ed Berger will host an evening celebrating his new biography of trumpeter Joe Wilson (currently 92 years old and a long-time NJMH friend). NJMH continues to be the only venue offering a Visitors Center open every day for those looking to get "jazzed, " in addition to our on-going free public programming, now entering its 10th year. Tuesday, April 29 Jazz For Curious Listeners Maitreya Padukone, tabla 7:00-8:30 PM FREE Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2c Maitreya Padukone was inspired and initiated in the art of Tabla( Indian Drums) by Pandit Nikhil Ghosh. He is co-founder of Raga Music Circle that has organized Indian Music concerts for the last 15 years. He is also a dental consultant to Jazz Foundation of America. His recent collaboration with "Cosmasomatics"resulted in the album "Jazz Maalika", a fusion of music inspired by John Coltrane and Pandit Ravi Shankar. This evening he will be joined by clarinetist and multi-woodwind player, Michael Marcus. Wednesday, April 30 Special Event International Jazz Day Celebration with by Jonathan Batiste with host Michael Mwenso 7:00-8:30 PM Location: MIST Harlem, 46 West 116th Street In celebration of International Jazz Day, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) will illuminate the truly global roots of jazz with an international jam session. Hosted by vocalist and man-about-town, Michael Mwenso, and curated by NJMH Artistic Director-at-Large, Jonathan Batiste, this evening will epitomize the universal language of jazz. Special guests include Kavita Shah, a young, multi-lingual Indian singer who has collaborated with Lionel Loueke and Steve Wilson; Oran Etkin, the reeds virtuoso known for his Israeli-West African-New Orleans hybrid sound; and Amir El Saffar, the Iraqi-American trumpeter revolutionizing the sound of jazz with Middle Eastern maqam and microtonal influences. When Jonathan Batiste is involved you never know who else will show up or what to expect and we hope you'll join us to find out! Jazz For Curious Listeners The Hall of Fame: Drummer Elvin Jones Guest: Author Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author 7:00 - 8:30pm FREE Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2c Join us for a series of fascinating evenings looking into some of the most legendary jazz artists being inducted into Jazz At Lincoln Center's Hall of Fame next month. Few jazz musicians have cast as wide a spell of influence as drummer Elvin Jones. His years with the John Coltrane quartet in the 1960's introduced a new way to play, to hear, and to think of rhythm. Writer Paul Harding is also a drummer, and developed a friendship with Jones. Tuesday, May 13 Jazz For Curious Listeners An Evening of Jazz on Film - the 2014 JALC Hall of Fame Inductees Elvin Jones/Betty Carter/Wes Montgomery/Fletcher Henderson 7:00 - 8:30pm $10 suggested contribution Location: The Maysles Film Institute 343 Lenox Avenue (Between 127th/128th Streets) This year, bandleader/arranger Fletcher Henderson, drummer Elvin Jones, guitarist Wes Montgomery and singer Betty Carter have been elected to Jazz At Lincoln Center's Hall of Fame. Join us for an evening of film celebrating their art - it's one thing to listen to them, and another to see them! Tuesday, May 20 Jazz For Curious Listeners The Hall of Fame: Guitarist Wes Montgomery 7:00 - 8:30pm FREE Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street, Suite 2C Join us for a series of fascinating evenings looking into some of the most legendary jazz artists being inducted into Jazz At Lincoln Center's Hall of Fame next month. Guitarist Wes Montgomery was that rare bird among jazz musicians of the 1960's - skyrocketing to popular fame while retaining his stature as the premiere guitarist of his generation. Join us as a panel of guitarists share their love for his music and we listen to rare highlights and watch rare video from Montgomery's short but brilliant career. Thursday, May 22 Special Event: Softly, With Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music, by Edward Berger 7:00 - 8:30pm Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street, Suite 2C Join us as author/Grammy-award winning producer and former director of the Institute of Jazz Studies Ed Berger hosts an evening celebrating the publication of his biography of Joe Wilder. Berger's books about Benny Carter, George Duvivier and Teddy Reig are highly acclaimed as being the best in jazz biography. Tuesday, May 27 Jazz For Curious Listeners The Hall of Fame: Singer Betty Carter 7:00 - 8:30pm FREE Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street, Suite 2C Join us for a series of fascinating evenings looking into some of the most legendary jazz artists being inducted into Jazz At Lincoln Center's Hall of Fame next month. Singer Betty Carter was not only an original, expressive and influential musician, but also one of the most significant nurturers of young jazz talent throughout her four decade career. Please join us as we look deep into her musical style as well as her legacy with some of today's mist talented jazz musicians and vocalists. National Jazz Museum in Harlem Benefit Concert with Dee Dee Bridgewater June 9, 2014, 7:30 PM Location: The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College You are invited to our benefit concert featuring three-time Grammy Award winner, Dee Dee Bridgewater, with special guests including the hottest rising star in jazz today, NJMH Artistic Director-at-Large, Jonathan Batiste! We will also be honoring CCNY President, Lisa Staiano-Coico, with our Jazz and Community Leadership Award and world-renowned jazz pianist, McCoy Tyner, with our Legends of Jazz Award. Seniors and students must purchase $20 tickets at the Kaye Playhouse Box Office. Come see our current exhibition 'Ralph Ellison: A Man and His Records' Open from 10:00AM until 4:00PM, Monday Through Friday in the Jazz Museum's Visitors Center 104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2c Please come see our new Ralph Ellison exhibit, which has received rave notices in The New Yorker and listings in The New York Times. Based on the museum's acquisition of the recordings that Ellison listened to while he wrote his masterpieces (including Invisible Man), the exhibit blends the music and the albums with his words, presented in thrilling and creative visual juxtapositions. As you listen to the music in the exhibit, it is as though you are visiting with Ellison as he is writing. In addition, our interactive kiosk offers rare videos of Ellison, along with interviews created especially for the exhibit with scholars such as Stanley Crouch. From Richard Brody in The New Yorker: One of the greatest American novelists, Ralph Ellison, is also one of our greatest writers about music, as evidenced by the volume "Living with Music, " which collects his writings about jazz. Ellison's life with music is thrust to the fore by a noteworthy exhibit that just opened at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, "Ralph Ellison: A Man and His Records, " on the occasion of his centennial (with an asterisk: his biographer, Arnold Rampersad, gives Ellison's birth date as March 1, 1913). Ellison, who died in 1994, was a big collector of jazz records-indeed, of records of many kinds of music. The museum has acquired his collection, which is the centerpiece of the exhibit. To capture the appeal and the delight of the show, with its selection of citations from Ellison's work and evocative archival images, it's worth glancing at just how Ellison lived with music.... 'Jazz: The Experimenters, ' a 1965 television broadcast of performances by the bands of Cecil Taylor and Charles Mingus, with commentary by Ralph Ellison and the jazz critic Martin Williams, currently on view at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem as part of an exhibition devoted to Ellison's record collection, would be worth the trip, even in the absence of the enticing and evocative installation of artifacts, texts, and images that surrounds it. The broadcast is a major document in the contextualized history of jazz and its performance. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |