| August 2014 Schedule
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) continues its summer series co-produced with Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) celebrating the Ertegun Hall of Fame honorees. Events are held at both institutions, alternating weekly. In addition, we resume our annual Latin Jazz Party series at Orchard Beach, host an afternoon jazz/tap event for kids and present our flagship Harlem in the Himalayas concerts with the Rubin Museum of Art. |
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Tuesday, July 29th
Jazz For Curious Listeners 
Who is Benny Goodman?
7:00-8:30 PM
Donation Suggested
Location:Jazz at Lincoln CenterTime Warner Center, Columbus Circle
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.
The National Jazz Museum’s Artistic Director, Loren Schoenberg, worked with Goodman for five years and will be leading the discussion, which will feature recordings from the Savory Collection.
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Friday, August 1st
Harlem in the Himalayas
Manuel Valera
7:00-8:30 PM
$18.00 in advance / $20.00 day of
Member Price: $16.20
Location: Rubin Museum of Art150 W. 17th StreetYou can find more information on tickets here.
2013 Grammy Nominated Cuban composer and jazz pianist Manuel Valera releases his new solo album.
Based in New York City, 2013 Grammy nominated artist, pianist and composer Manuel Valera was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. Since arriving in NYC, he has become well known in the NYC modern jazz scene, garnering national reviews and lending his talents as a pianist and composer to such notable artist as Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D’Rivera, Brian Lynch, Dafnis Prieto, Jeff “Tain” Watts, John Benitez, Samuel Torres, Joel Frahm, Yosvany Terry among many others. Manuel is also the leader of the New Cuban Express. His 6th record as a leader New Cuban Express was released in June/2012 and is nominated for the 2013 Grammys in the Best Latin Jazz Album category.
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Saturday, August 2nd
Special Event
Drop Me Off in Harlem
A Perform & Create Day
11:00 am
Location: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage
Broadway and 63rd Street
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem All-Stars bring the sounds of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and the rhythm of iconic tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson to Meet The Artist Saturdays. This interactive program will have families scatting, swinging, and tapping with the help of renowned jazz historian and saxophonist Loren Schoenberg, and New York’s hottest tap artist, Andrew Nemr. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan hosts a free “make your own tap shoes” workshop before the show!
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Tuesday, August 5th
Jazz For Curious Listeners 
Who is Mary Lou Williams?
7:00-8:30 PM
Donation Suggested
Location:Jazz at Lincoln CenterTime Warner Center, Columbus Circle
Pianist/arranger Mary Lou Williams wrote music that always looked forward – from her early work for Andy Kirk and Benny Goodman in the 30’s, for Ellington in the 40’s, and her own groups through the 80’s, Williams was a true original, as well as one of the first major women to become an international jazz presence.
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Thursday, August 7th
Special Event 
Remembering Ralph Ellison with Sidney Offit
7:00-8:30 PM
Donation Suggested
Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2D
On August 7th, acclaimed writer Sidney Offit will be interviewed by Paul Devlin and share his memories of his friendship with Ralph Ellison over four decades, as well as offer his perspective on Ellison’s life and work, in one of the final events celebrating Ralph Ellison’s centennial year and the NJMH’s concurrent exhibition “Ralph Ellison: The Man and his Records.” Ellison and Offit became friends through organizations such as PEN in the 1960s, which advocated for freedom of expression for writers around the globe in that tumultuous era (as it does today). Mr. Offit will also share his memories of his long friendship with Albert Murray.
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Friday, August 8th
Harlem in the Himalayas
Amir ElSaffar
7:00-8:30 PM
$18.00 in advance / $20.00 day of
Member Price: $16.20
Location: Rubin Museum of Art150 W. 17th StreetYou can find more information on tickets here.
The innovative Amir ElSaffar Quintet, featuring John Escreet on piano, Francois Moutin on bass, Dan Weiss on drums, Ole Mathisen on tenor saxophone, and ElSaffar on trumpet, re-imagines the Iraqi Maqam to explore new microtonal harmonies and chord progressions, mixed with Mesopotamian modes.
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Tuesday, August 12th
Jazz For Curious Listeners
Who is King Oliver?
7:00 – 8:30pm
Donation Suggested
Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C
Louis Armstrong always said that for inspiration, all he had to do was to close his eyes and see/hear King Oliver in his mind. We’ll take an in-depth look at this New Orleans whose great talent helped create Armstrong, and who sadly died in 1938 at the height of the Swing Era, peddling vegetables in Georgia.
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Sunday, August 17th
Special Event
Latin Jazz with Nelson Gonzales All-Stars and DJ Brian Martinez
1:00 PM
Free
Location: Pelham Bay ParkOrchard Beach Pavilion, Bronx, NY(718) 885-2275
NJMH, in collaboration with Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, continues its annual summer Latin Jazz Jam concert series with Nelson Gonzales All Stars on Long Island Sound in Pelham Bay Park.
Born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, Nelson González is distinguished for his mastery of the Cuban Tres guitar. This traditional instrument is indispensable to the interpretation of ‘Son’, the most popular form of Cuban dance music .His love of Afro-Caribbean music developed at an early age and was nurtured in New York City, where he immigrated at the age of 12. During the 1960’s many of today’s acclaimed and virtuoso Latin musicians convened regularly at the home of Andy and Jerry Gonzalez to participate in weekly ‘jam sessions’. Nelson joined these young and notable musicians that included talents such as Dave Valentin, Hilton Ruiz, Oscar Hernandez, Milton Cardona, Nicki Marrero, Tommy Lopez, Jr., Eladio Perez, Charlie Santiago, Papo Vasquez, Orestes Vilato, and the powerful voices of Adalberto Santiago, Willie Garcia, Justo Betancourt and Virgilio Marti. It was during this period that Nelson explored his interest in the Tres.
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Tuesday, August 19th
Jazz for Curious Listeners
Who is Bill Evans?
7:00-8:30 PM
Donation Suggested
Location: Jazz at Lincoln CenterTime Warner Center, Columbus Circle
Few pianists have had a wide an influence on all of jazz as Bill Evans did. A sensitive player with his own harmonic arsenal, Evans changed the way Miles Davis approached music, resulting in the classic album KIND OF BLUE, and from that point on, Evans never stopped evolving.
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Jazz For Curious Listeners
Who is Lester Young?
7:00 – 8:30pm
Donation SuggestedLocation:
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C
Celebrated as a main progenitor of the “cool” sensibility, saxophonist Lester Young introduced a new sound and a new attitude towards jazz. Through his early work with Count Basie and Billie Holiday, Young made music that still echoes vibrantly wherever jazz is played.
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Coming in September
We are happy to announce our next exhibit opening in our Visitors Center – the life and times of Bebo Valdes, the innovative and influential pianist/composer/ bandleader and father of Chucho Valdes.
A distinguished curatorial team that includes historian/writers Rene Lopez and Ned Sublette have been creating what we are positive will be an extraordinary exhibit. Also curating is the expert Robert Sancho, from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, which is sponsoring the exhibit.
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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.
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From Our Friends at the Newport Jazz Festival
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August 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 2014
Traveling from the NYC area?
Buses leave from New York City, Brooklyn & Newark
WBGO offers direct rides to the front gate of the Newport Jazz Festival. Bus packages feature luxury buses with restrooms and wifi; plus access to the WBGO Shade Tent at the Festival, where free snacks and refreshments will be served.Pick-up and drop-off locations at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, NY; BRIC House in Brooklyn, NY; and New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ.”It’s an enjoyable ride with fellow jazz enthusiasts, and it eliminates the need to think about gas, traffic, car rentals, and parking. All you have to do is think about the music.”
– George Wein, Founder & ProducerNYC area bus packages including festival tickets start at $205
NYC area bus-only packages start at $175
Average travel time from NYC is 4 hours in each directionTo purchase or for more information visit:
www.wbgo.org/newportbus or call 973-624-8880 ext 269 or ext 283
WBGO JAZZ 88.3 FM is an Official Travel Partner of Newport Jazz
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All programs are free unless noted otherwise.
These programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State.
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| The National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Visitors Center is open to the public and features our extensive library of all sorts of media, plus brand new collections of photographs, and exhibits. Please come by and see us from Monday to Friday from 10AM to 4PM. We look forward to seeing you! |
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The Jazz Museum in Harlem is a 501(c)3 charitable organization.  All donations are fully tax deductible.
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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
104 East 126th Street
New York, NY 10035
212 348-8300
www.jmih.org
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Groove is the universal language. Whether it’s a Texas or Chicago blues shuffle, James Brown’s goodfoot funk, a driving guaguanco, percolating rumba, surging samba, infectious second line or insinuating cha-cha-cha, everyone knows what to do when they feel the rhythm in their bones. Indeed, groove is at the heart of this potent Afro Bop Alliance release, the group’s debut on the ZOHO label. While providing exciting Latin-tinged grooves that are tailor-made for dancers, the members of this Washington, DC-based, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers-inspired octet keep one foot solidly in the straight ahead jazz camp with their scintillating improvisations and tight three-horn frontline on Angel Eyes.The secret weapon on this exhilarating outing is newest Afro Bop Alliance member Victor Provost, who brings a new sparkle to the proceedings with his virtuosic steel pans playing on the Latin Grammy-winning group’s fifth release overall. “He’s like the Michael Brecker of the pans,” says drummer and Afro Bop Alliance founder Joe McCarthy. “He’s from St. John’s, Virgin Islands, and he came to study at George Mason University just outside of Washington D.C., where I also teach. Having Victor in the band really changes what we do.” Aside from offering brilliant solos throughout Angel Eyes, Provost’s steel pans also blend nicely on the frontline with alto saxophonist Vince Norman, tenor saxophonist Luis Hernandez and trumpeter Tim Stanley on these eleven tracks.They state their rhythmically-charged case very persuasively from the outset on the buoyantly churning, clave-fueled opener, The Jinx, written by the band’s bassist Tom Baldwin and arranged by Vince Norman. Following exhilarating solos by pianist Harry Appelman and saxophonist Hernandez, drummer McCarthy engages in some fiery exchanges with conga player Roberto Quintero over a mesmerizing son montuno groove on this energized number before McCarthy unleashes at the tag. Three for Juju, composed by Hernandez and arranged by Norman, opens with a drum flurry by McCarthy. Note how he keeps a tambourine groove going with his foot as he traverses the kit throughout this intricate piece, which morphs from 3/4 to 6/8 and features some lush harmonies between the horns. “That’s based on a joropo groove from Venezuela,” explains McCarthy,” who studied Latin jazz rhythms with Frankie Malabe and Victor Rendon at the Boys Harbor School in the Bronx and also studied jazz drumming with Ed Soph at the University of North Texas. “I was trying to play a little wider beat, so it seems to float underneath that beautiful melody that Luis wrote. And the way that Roberto is playing maracas on that is a total characteristic of that type of groove.” Appelman and Hernandez both offer inspired solos on this engaging, polyrhythmic number.
The Smooth Jazz Cruise has been the most successful and heralded music cruise in the world since its inception in 2004. With 17 sold-out sailings and the most amazing lineups ever offered, our Guests have renamed the cruise … simply, The Greatest Party at Sea. As one Guest so aptly put it, we call it The Greatest Party at Seabecause that is what it is.Our lineup includes hosts Marcus Miller, David Sanborn, Boney James, Brian Culbertson and Candy Dulfer, and stars Joe Sample and Rick Braun. Norman Brown and Kirk Whalum will join us for The Smooth Jazz Cruise 15.1 (
