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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is dedicated to preservation and celebration of the jazz history, culture and music of Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.The museum was founded in 1997 by Leonard Garment, then Counsel to two U.S. presidents and an accomplished jazz saxophonist, Abraham David Sofaer, former U.S. district judge who gave the initial gift in honor of his brother-in-law Richard J ...
The organization and festival was co-founded and led by three local Harlem producers: Neal Ludevig, J.J. El-Far and Chelsea Goding. [3] [4] [5] The festival debuted in 2012 after a successful Kickstarter campaign garnered press from The New York Times, [6] The Daily News, [7] [8] DNAInfo, [9] Northhattan News, [10] and a number of other media outlets. [11]
The Lenox Lounge. Lenox Lounge was a long-standing bar in Harlem, New York City.It was located in 288 Lenox Avenue, between 124th and 125th.The bar was founded in 1939 by Ralph Greco and served as a venue for performances by many great jazz artists, including Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.
The Grammy winner tells Harper's Bazaar what went into his first time headlining the festival and producing one of the best after-parties of the weekend. Anderson.Paak’s Jazz Fest Weekend Felt ...
He was a Friday-night regular at Nick's jazz pub in Harlem, [2] before he fulfilled a dream of his and opened "New York's only Jazz Speakeasy", "Bill's Place", on West 133rd Street in Harlem in 2006. [ 1 ]
Minton's original owner, Henry Minton, was known in Harlem for being the first ever black delegate to the American Federation of Musicians Local 802. [3] In addition, he had been the manager of the Rhythm Club, in Harlem, in the early part of the 1930s, a venue which Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, and Earl Hines frequented. [4]
The first weekend of spring, despite the snowy start, brings exciting new arts options to metro Detroit. ... Honoring jazz legends. On Friday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m., trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire ...
A Great Day in Harlem. A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine on August 12, 1958. [1] The idea for the photo came from Esquire ' s art director, Robert Benton, rather than Kane. [2]