The Jazz Museum in Harlem
104 East 126th Street
New York, NY 10035
www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org
Harlem Speaks Jazz Series Salutes Bobby Sanabria (December 16)
New York, NY (December 13, 2004) Harlem Speaks, The Jazz Museum in Harlem's successful series honoring those who keep jazz alive in Harlem continues. This Thursday (December 16) The Jazz Museum in Harlem honors Grammy-nominated percussionist, composer and arranger Bobby Sanabria and closes out the Jazz Museum in Harlem 2004 season. He's graced the stage with luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Charles McPherson, and Paquito D'Rivera, and was a key member of the Mario Bauza Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra's soundtrack of the film, The Mambo Kings. Sanabria has entitled his evening's discussion, "East Harlem, birthplace of Afro-Cuban Jazz."
Two weeks ago, Executive Director Loren Schoenberg was in dialogue with singer-guitarist Allan Harris. He is acclaimed as one of the top male jazz vocalists on the scene today. A Harlem resident of many years, he shared tales of his life and career. Winner of the 2004 New York Nightlife award for "Outstanding Male Jazz Vocalist," Harris has the privilege of being known as Tony Bennett's "favorite new singer."
Thursday, November 18, pianist and impresario Marjorie Eliot chatted with Loren Schoenberg about her weekly Sugar Hill soirees at 555 Edgecombe Avenue, a legendary residence where band leader Andy Kirk and Ellington alto giant Johnny Hodges lived in decades past. Ms. Elliot, an accomplished actress, began the free series in 1995; every August she coordinates a jazz concert in front of the landmark Morris Jumel mansion.
Thursday, November 11, Harlem Speaks resumed with a talk featuring literature professor and the director of Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies, Robert O'Meally. He's author and editor of several books about jazz, including Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, and most recently, Uptown Conversation: New Jazz Studies. Professor O'Meally discussed his life-long love of jazz and Harlem; his scholarship on Ralph Ellison, one of the best writers on jazz of the last century; the Center's recent symposium on the artist Romare Bearden, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum, and more.
The Harlem Speaks series is co-produced by The Jazz Museum in Harlem and Greg Thomas Associates. The last session of the autumn series will be held at the offices of The Jazz Museum in Harlem, located at 104 East 126th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, from 6:30pm-8:00 on December 16th.
The series is free to the public. Please call for reservations: 212-348-8300.
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