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| The National Jazz Museum in Harlem July Events! In collaboration with Jazz At Lincoln Center (JALC), The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) presents a summer series celebrating Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame members. The events will be held at 7pm every Tuesday, beginning on July 8th, alternating between NJMH and JALC. . Tuesday, July 8 Jazz For Curious Listeners Who is Count Basie? 7:00-8:30 PM Donation Suggested Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C Ever since he first came to Kansas City in the 1930's, Count Basie's name has been synonymous with swing. In this session, we will focus on the early years of the Count Basie band, when stars like Lester Young and Harry Edison and Jo Jones and Walter Paige created a new kind of swing that took the world by storm. Tuesday, June 15 Jazz For Curious Listeners Who is Louis Armstrong? 7:00 - 8:30pm Donation Suggested Location: Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway at 60th Street It has been wonderful to see how the interest in the genius that was Louis Armstrong has been steadily increasing in the years since his passing. We will take a look at recent developments including a play about Armstrong that had great success recently, and a set of newly discovered recordings that shed new light on this American icon. Tuesday June, 22nd Jazz for Curious Listeners Who is Sarah Vaughan? 7:00-8:30 PM Donation Suggested Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C There has never been a more influential or greatly loved jazz singer than Sarah Vaughan. Few people know that besides being a singer, she was a talented pianist and a complete musician who had the respect of all of her peers, starting with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Join us for an overview of her entire career. Tuesday, July 29th Jazz For Curious Listeners Who is Benny Goodman? 7:00 - 8:30pm Donation Suggested Location: Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway at 60th Street We celebrate Benny Goodman's 105th birthday anniversary with a session devoted exclusively to his greatest band - the 1937 crew that included Harry James Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa. This will be a very swinging evening. Come see our current exhibition 'Ralph Ellison: A Man and His Records' Open from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, 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 |